Roleplay Assessment Creation Platform

Streamlining Assessment Design Workflows

Author supports instructional designers with:

Rethinking assessment for a changing world

AI has highlighted a key weakness in traditional assessments: they mainly measure whether students can recall information, not whether they can apply what they have learned and demonstrate their knowledge. When AI can answer the standard test questions in a matter of seconds, it's clear we need better ways to assess student skills.
 
Our Author platform is the solution to weak assessment. It supports instructional designers throughout the entire production and delivery process. From creating pedagogically sound content from course materials to seamlessly embedding assessments into LMS platforms, experiential learning in real-world scenarios can finally be scaled across institutions and reach students wherever they are.
 
 At Muzzy Lane, we ensure that instructional designers can create the best learning environments for their students to booth their educational return on investment. 
 
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With Author, you can:

Create, Customize, Scale, and Score authentic learning.

Create

Design content intuitively

Author is our intuitive platform that supports instructional designers to create immersive roleplay assessments. Its Production Assistant seamlessly builds high-quality content following our Generate Playbook's proven 8-step process.

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Customize

Curate assessments for your use case

Author streamlines the creation of real-world scenarios, complete with virtual colleagues, learning objectives, and engaging questions straight from your course materials.

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Scale

Scale your assessments

Seamlessly deliver assessments to your Learning Management System in minutes. Author's assessments can be scaled across institutions and meet learners wherever they are.

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Learning in the AI era

The Production Assistant follows a pedagogical content-generation approach, creating high-quality assessment content and providing learners with effective answer-feedback that boosts experiential learning.

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Our impact

5.2 Million

Students Served

40 Million

Assessments Completed

401 Million

Decisions Made

Trusted by all sectors of education

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Higher Education and K-12

Our higher education and K-12 partners use Author to create immersive roleplay assessments for impactful learning outcomes at scale.

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Corporate Learning and Development

Engage employees with safe, immersive practice environments and skills development pathways.

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Publishers

With Author, you can blend education materials with cutting-edge technologies to provide career preparation for all course areas and use cases.

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Making a real-world impact

We're dedicated to scaling our impact by delivering an intuitive design experience that makes high-quality, immersive roleplay assessments accessible to every learner. 
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Colorado State University Global

Creating immersive roleplay content for a high-stakes assessment in CSU Global's Human Services program.

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Herzing University

Scaling assessments across major course areas: technology, business, healthcare, and public safety.

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Excelsior University

Designing simulations to enhance socio-emotional intelligence, from Health Science to World History.

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Customer Testimonials

See what our happy clients have to say about working with us and the results they achieved.

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Nicol Dunn

Colorado State University Global

Muzzy Lane's tools are a game changer. With the use of a solid prompt and concept, the tools create an engaging interactive simulation in minutes with the ability to fine-tune and edit as needed. I was able to create simulations that allow learners to practice their skills in a real-world scenario without spending countless hours developing the content from scratch. It allows open-response interactions that require learners to think critically and provides the opportunity for honesty in a safe space.

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Don Frasier

Education Design Lab

Muzzy Lane's tools and capabilities for creating interactive simulations have helped us solve two critical issues. First, the simulations have dramatically enhanced the learner experience. Perhaps more importantly for our institutional partners, they have helped us scale assessment, which is a game-changer in the world of digital badging.

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Julianna Stockton

The University of Kansas

Open response changes everything.

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Patrick Soleymani

George Mason University

 As an instructor, I have used Muzzy Lane simulations because they promote critical thinking and problem-solving, which are important career readiness skills. The activities allow students to analyze information, make decisions, and quickly see outcomes - something I couldn't do in my classes in the past! 

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Kelly Morris

Western Governors University

 I've used Author in Teacher Education courses, Nursing courses, and General Ed courses, and it's great for engaging students with complicated, abstract concepts in fresh and compelling ways. 

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Mary Berkery

Excelsior University

 I had a great experience working with Muzzy Lane on the development of three simulations for our course HIS350: World War I. It is a credit to their development process and the Author tool that the simulations have continued to run smoothly for each group of students in the course since 2016, even as we changed our LMS. 

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Sankha Basu

Product Development Executive

 We needed to create a high-quality experience quickly, at scale, and efficiently. Enter Muzzy Lane - not a vendor but a true end-to-end solutions partner in every sense. Accessible, mobile, integrated simulations went live across multiple disciplines within a very short period of time by leveraging Muzzy Lane tools and training services; a remarkable accomplishment with an incredible partner. 

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Schedule a free 30-minute workshop with us to discuss your personalized experience using Author.