Why universities use SimChat
More practice between teaching sessions
Students often learn what good communication looks like in lectures, seminars and workshops, but have limited time to practise it in a realistic way.
SimChat adds flexible practice between taught sessions, placements and assessments. Students can repeat scenarios, try different approaches and build confidence before the real conversation.
Realistic role-plays across disciplines
Students interact with AI characters that respond in role. The character might be an interviewer, client, customer, colleague, parent, pupil, line manager or another person relevant to the scenario.
Feedback linked to the conversation
Each role-play creates a transcript, giving students and tutors a clear record of what was said.
Feedback can be linked to tutor-authored rubrics, competency frameworks, learning outcomes or graduate attributes. Students can review their performance, reflect on their approach and identify what to improve next.
Built around your teaching
Easily create your own scenarios from lesson plans, employer briefs, case studies, assessment criteria and teaching materials.
Scenarios can be organised into groups, tagged by theme or discipline and mapped to learning outcomes or graduate-attribute frameworks, making it easier to review coverage and deliver role-play practice consistently across cohorts.
Create, practise and review
Create
Start with a lesson plan, employer brief, case study, assessment rubric or your own teaching materials. SimChat helps generate an interactive role-play that tutors can review and refine before sharing with students.
Practise
Students complete the role-play in text, voice or video mode. They ask questions, respond to cues and practise the conversation in their own words.
Review
Students and tutors can review the transcript, feedback and rubric results. This turns each role-play into an opportunity for reflection, discussion and improvement.
Everything you need to deliver structured role-play practice
Tutor-authored rubrics
Define the criteria students should be assessed against for each role-play.
Automated feedback
Give students immediate feedback linked to the conversation they had and the criteria you define.
Curriculum mapping
Map scenarios to learning outcomes, themes, disciplines or graduate-attribute frameworks.
Cohort and access controls
Assign scenarios to specific cohorts, seminar groups or programmes.
Single sign-on
SAML 2.0 and OpenID Connect for institutional logins, with just-in-time provisioning so student and educator accounts are created automatically. Works with Okta, Microsoft Entra ID, Google Workspace and other standards-based identity providers.
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