Training
Practise real classroom communication skills through AI role-play, typing to AI characters who reply in character and score how well you apply the techniques you chose.
Training is an AI-powered conversation simulator for practising the communication skills you use in challenging classroom situations. Instead of just reading about a technique, you rehearse it: you type messages to AI characters — a student, a parent, or a colleague — who reply in character, and your messages are scored on the skills you chose to practise.
It's a safe place to rehearse difficult conversations, with no real student involved. The platform's framing says it plainly: "Practice your skills for handling challenging situations in the classroom."
How a training works
After every message you send, the AI does two things at once:
- Replies in character, continuing the scenario realistically.
- Scores your message against the skills you're practising, with a short one-line reason.
When the situation is "solved," the session closes and you get an overall score plus a summary of what went well and what to improve. Points add up across sessions, build your personal statistics, unlock higher skill levels, and place you on a leaderboard.
Skills vs. topics — two different things
These two are easy to confuse, so it's worth being clear:
- A Skill is the specific communication technique you're being scored on — for example, using an I-statement or restorative questions. Skills carry your score, your points, and your progress.
- A Topic or theme (shown as Conversation theme) is the scenario the conversation is about — for example, a student caught cheating. The topic sets the situation and who is in it, but it is not scored itself.
In short: the skill is what you're graded on; the topic is the situation you practise it in.
Recommended for a specific case
When you read a case report, its sidebar may show a Training recommendation card: a suggested skill, a short reason why it fits that case, and a Start training button that jumps straight into setup with that skill pre-selected. This is the bridge from reading a real situation to practising the exact technique that would have helped.
Explore Training
Trainable skills & levels
The techniques you can practise and how they're organised into levels
Starting a training session
Choose your roles, the scenario, difficulty, and skills
During a session
How the conversation and per-message scoring work
Progress & leaderboard
Your stats, level progression, and where you rank
Scores, endings & replay
Understand how your EduPlay score works, the three possible endings, and how to replay a case to try a different approach.
Trainable skills & levels
Learn what the trainable communication skills are, the Definition–Example–research detail behind each one, and how skills are organised into colour-coded levels you unlock as you improve.