The aipuria Times

You are the editor of The Jaipuria Times. A rival outlet keeps publishing slanted articles that swing public opinion against your beat. Across three rounds you must detect the propaganda techniques the rival used, then write a counter-editorial that pulls public sentiment back toward truth. Your final score depends on detection accuracy, the quality of your counter-editorial, and how much you moved the sentiment needle.

The game is single-player and takes about 15–25 minutes per session. You may play as many sessions as you like. Please check with your faculty for the exact scoring mandate: some count only your 3 most recent sessions, while others consider all attempts. The faculty dashboard shows both values; the final grade is at the faculty's discretion.

1. Open the homepage and click Sign in / Sign up.
2. Choose the Student tab.
3. Enter your full name, Jaipuria email (@jaipuria.ac.in only), password, roll number, batch year, and faculty.
4. Roll number must match the format JN25PG144 — prefix is JN (Noida), JL (Lucknow), JJ (Jaipur) or JI (Indore). Your campus is auto-detected from this prefix.
5. Enter the student access code shared by your faculty in class.
6. You will receive a confirmation email. Click the link inside before logging in — uncon­firmed accounts cannot play.
7. Forgot your password? Use Forgot password on the sign-in screen. A reset link is sent only if your email is already registered.

1. Landing — read the brief and click Start.
2. Career — pick the career lens you want to report through (e.g. Investigative, Business, Tech, Sports).
3. SDG Focus — choose one UN Sustainable Development Goal as the editorial beat for this session.
4. Industries — pick up to three industries the story touches.
5. Ideology — pick the editorial stance your paper will write from.
6. Round 1 → 3: each round has three phases:
   • Analysis — read the rival's article and flag the propaganda techniques you can detect.
   • Writing — write your counter-editorial (minimum ~40 meaningful words).
   • Stop Press — sentiment shifts based on your detection + writing quality.
7. Reveal — your full grade, rubric breakdown, and the editor's notes.

The rival article uses one or more of these. Your Analysis tab asks you to flag which ones you spot. Over-flagging hurts your score — flag only what's actually present.

Each round produces two numeric signals you can see immediately:

• Detection score — how accurately you flagged the propaganda techniques. Correct flag = +; missed = 0; false flag = –.
• Editorial score (0–10) — your counter-editorial is judged by an AI editor on (a) topical relevance to the rival article, (b) technique-aware rebuttal, (c) clarity & evidence. Off-topic essays are capped low. Gibberish floors to 0–1.

Both signals nudge a public sentiment meter. Higher detection + higher editorial → larger positive swing.

After all 3 rounds, your whole session is graded against the academic rubric (Assessment Task 1: AI-Based Reflective Writing on Propaganda Wars · 10 marks).

Propaganda Wars is a media-literacy exercise, not a political forum. Keep every editorial, technique-flag, and headline focused on your SDG + industry brief. Off-limits topics:

• Party politics, elections, or real politicians (by name or thinly-veiled).
• Religion, faith, deities, religious institutions, or communal / caste identity.
• Live public controversies (Kashmir, Palestine/Israel, Ukraine, sectarian violence, sexuality/gender-identity debates).

If your submission drifts into these areas the AI editor will attach a Policy note to your feedback and your faculty will see it in the dashboard. Rewrite the argument inside a business, sustainability, technology, consumer, workplace, or civic-infrastructure frame instead.

Click Past Editions on the results screen, or open History from the top-right menu after logging in. Every session is preserved — your career, SDG, industries, per-round scores, the full counter-editorials you wrote, and the editor's qualitative notes. Your faculty dashboard shows two headline scores: Best /10 (last 3) and Best /10 (all attempts). Which one counts is up to your faculty's mandate, so ask them if you are unsure.

On the right of every gameplay screen (and on your dashboard) you'll see a press badge with your name, roll number, campus, title (Reporter), and the faculty you report to. It's your in-game identity — share a screenshot when you finish a great edition.