RolePlayLMS

Inside your LMS

Opening the activity

What a student meets when they click the activity, and what you meet

All pages in this guide

Most students open RolePlay LMS from an activity on their course page. It normally opens inside the LMS and uses their LMS sign-in. The exact display depends on how the activity is configured in your LMS.

What a student sees

The activity as a student sees it inside an LMS frame — the chatbot title, a one-line facts strip, the character's opening line, the teacher's instructions, a collapsed Reading and listening options panel and a Start chat button.

The activity before anyone presses Start chat. Everything on this page is chosen by whoever built the chatbot.

Top to bottom:

  1. The character’s picture and the chatbot’s name. The name is whatever the activity is called in your LMS — see Renaming an activity.
  2. The facts line. Three facts, separated by dots, and all three are read from the chatbot’s settings:
    • how they answer — Speak or type, or Live voice or text when live voice is switched on;
    • how long they have — No time limit, or N min limit;
    • how many goes they get — Unlimited conversations, or Conversation 1 of 3. A conversation already under way still counts as the one it started as, so resuming does not use up another attempt.
  3. The character’s first line, when the chatbot has been set to speak first. Otherwise, the student starts.
  4. The instructions you wrote for students to read before they begin.
  5. Reading and listening options.
  6. Start chat.

Note

The same time and conversation limits apply after the student starts.

Reading and listening options

The Reading and listening options panel opened, showing Text size with Normal, Large and Largest; Contrast with Normal and High contrast; Voice speed with Slower, Normal and Faster; and a line saying everything the tutor says also appears as text.

The panel opened. These are presentation preferences, not a stored profile. It is the same panel whether the activity was reached from an LMS or from a shared link.

Every student gets this panel. It is not tied to any setting or claimed learning style. It offers Text size (Normal, Large, Largest), Contrast (Normal, High contrast) and Voice speed (Slower, Normal, Faster), and it ends with:

Everything the tutor says also appears as text below, and you can type instead of speaking at any time.

More on this in Accessibility.

What you see

The same page, with the bar across the top added — Activity, Responses, and sometimes Edit chatbot and Dashboard. Which items appear depends on your role and how the integration was set up — see The bar across the top.

There is no separate RolePlay LMS header or Log out button inside the activity. Use your LMS to sign out.

Warning

Pressing Start chat as a teacher is a test, not a submission

If a staff member opens the activity and has a conversation, it is saved with a Test badge. Test conversations do not use a student attempt, are not marked and are not sent to the gradebook. They may count towards practice usage on an individual plan; organisation billing excludes teacher tests.

When the page does not open

The activity may not open if its link is no longer valid, the student has used all allowed conversations, or the chatbot belongs to another organisation. The student sees the reason before the conversation starts. See When something goes wrong.

What happens next

After the student ends the conversation, they may see written feedback if the chatbot allows it. A rubric mark is held until a teacher reviews and commits it. A completion-only result is sent automatically when the student finishes. See Releasing a mark.

Their conversation appears in Reading conversations as soon as they finish.