Training dispatchers for a roleplay server
Dispatch is the hardest seat to fill and the easiest to burn somebody out in. Most communities put a new dispatcher on a live board and hope. This is the alternative.
Teach the board before the shift
A dispatcher has to read the call queue, unit statuses and the map at once. Build that as a course in CDE Academy with screenshots of your own board, so the first time they see it is not while somebody is waiting on the radio.
Codes are a reference, not a memory test
Ten-codes and status codes belong in a lesson people can reopen. Quiz the ones that matter under pressure, and leave the rest as something to look up. See the ten-code reference.
Practise the call, not the trivia
Write scenarios: a pursuit that crosses departments, a structure fire that needs mutual aid, two priority calls and one unit. Those are the moments that decide whether somebody can dispatch, and a quiz about code meanings does not test them.
Certify, then let them work a real board
An exam with a passing score and a sign-off gives a supervisor something to point at when they put somebody on shift alone. The certificate carries a credential id anyone can verify, which matters when a dispatcher transfers in from another community.