Higher Education and K-12

Design high-quality, intuitive roleplay assessments that scale across institutions and maximize learner ROI.

Transform Content into Engaging Roleplay Assessments

Author is an essential platform for higher education and K-12 instructional innovators, streamlining assessment design into a fast, focused workflow. From any learning material, Author can create immersive and fully dynamic roleplay assessments in minutes. Learners are placed in realistic scenarios, step into a role, and practice skills in a safe environment.
 
Personalized branching pathways adapt to each learner's answers, while a clear pedagogical framework keeps every assessment aligned with meaningful learning outcomes, experiential learning, and real-world application.
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With Author, you can:

Personalize content, streamline creativity, and enhance engagement.

Personalize content

Meet course needs

Use Production Assistant to instantly generate assessments from your course content and tailor them to your goals.

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Simplify Workflows

Streamline creativity

Simplify workloads

The Generate Playbook prompts in Author instantly build your assessment content at scale, so you have far less manual work to do.

Boost engagement

Immersify learning

Design assessments with immersive content and real-world scenarios that foster authentic, experiential learning.

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Maximize your creative potential

Accessible assessments that support real, hands-on practice

Find your lane

Check out the course and study areas for which our partners created assessments using Author.

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Customer Testimonials

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

"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."
Nicol Dunn
Nicol Dunn
Colorado State University Global
"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."
Kelly Morris
Kelly Morris
Western Governors 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!"
Patrick Soleymani
Patrick Soleymani
George Mason 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."
Mary Berkery
Mary Berkery
Excelsior University
"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."
Don Fraser
Don Fraser
Education Design Lab
"Open response changes everything."
Julianna Stockton
Julianna Stockton
The University of Kansas

Ready to start creating?

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