The RolePlay LMS user guide
Set up activities, support students, review conversations and release results
RolePlay LMS lets students practise a conversation with an AI character or tutor. Students can speak or type. When they finish, teachers can review the transcript, recording and feedback.
This guide is for teachers who run activities and lead teachers who build chatbots.
Start where you are
- Inside your LMSOpen an activity, review student conversations, release results and change activity settings.
- Building chatbotsCreate and manage the roleplays and tutors used in activities.
- What your students seeFollow the student journey from the start screen to the final feedback.
- ReferenceCheck roles, controls, messages, accessibility information and key terms.
The one thing to know before you assess
Warning
A mark does not release itself
A marked conversation is held. It appears in the activity’s Responses list with an Awaiting review badge, and a teacher must open it, check the evidence and release the result.
Completion-only activities send their result to the gradebook automatically — and so does a marked activity whose rubric is empty. The sweep that closes abandoned conversations after 12 hours follows the same rules: completion results go automatically, rubric marks are held. An automatic completion passback includes the generated feedback text in the gradebook comment.
Read Releasing a mark before using RolePlay LMS for assessment.
If you have ten minutes
- Opening the activity — what you and your students see.
- Reading conversations — the list, and what each badge means.
- Releasing a mark — the assessor gate, start to finish.
If you are setting a unit up
- Creating a chatbot — the wizard, and the three ways to start.
- Behaviour and the role prompt — the part that decides how the character acts.
- Teaching content — attaching your own material so the chatbot teaches from it.
- Templates and copies — build once, and let every teacher attach their own copy.
What this guide does not cover
This guide does not cover the administration console. Ask your organisation’s RolePlay LMS administrator about LTI setup, staff accounts, data retention or billing.
For how the tutoring method works and the research behind it, see the method and the FAQ.
Note
The screenshots use fictional organisations, staff, students and conversations.