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Skillsetter

Platform overview

The interpersonal skills practice platform.

Skillsetter prepares people for high-stakes conversations through realistic simulations, focused skill practice, structured feedback, and clear evidence of progress.

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A Skillsetter course page listing practice modules for Counseling Skills and Techniques

What Skillsetter does

Make interpersonal skills clear, practiceable, and measurable.

  • The Challenge

    Skills like empathy, rapport, de-escalation, boundary-setting, and rupture repair are easy to name, but hard to teach and assess consistently.

  • Break It Down

    Skillsetter breaks broad competencies into observable micro-skills, then builds focused practice around them through realistic simulations, guided reflection, and structured feedback.

  • Focused, Repeatable Practice

    The difference is not simulation alone. It is focused, repeatable practice on the moments where interpersonal skill is actually revealed.

The Result

Learners know what to practice, instructors know what to look for, and programs gain clearer evidence of readiness.

Platform at a glance

Everything you need to build, practice, assess, and scale interpersonal skill development.

Skillsetter combines realistic practice content, progressive learning experiences, structured feedback, and implementation support in one platform.

Course & Scenario Library

Ready-to-assign practice for the conversations learners need most.

Skillsetter includes a large library of realistic scenario simulations, pre-built courses, and skill modules for counseling, social work, nursing, behavioral health, and other fields where communication shapes outcomes.

  • Thousands of actor-led scenarios reflecting a wide range of identities, presenting concerns, diagnoses, and lived experiences

  • Pre-built courses and modules for common program needs

  • Practice cases that can be aligned to your competencies, rubrics, and learning goals

The Skillsetter scenario library, filtered by modality, showing practice modules with durations

Practice Experiences

Practice the right skill at the right level of challenge.

Learners can analyze examples, respond to realistic video scenarios, and engage in AI-supported conversation simulations for more complex, multi-step interactions. Practice experiences can be sequenced to meet learners where they are, moving from foundational recognition to higher-stakes conversational performance.

  • Sequence practice from foundational skills to more complex conversations

  • Support progression so learners build competence before moving ahead

  • Identify learners who may need additional support earlier

  • Create or adapt practice cases for specific learning objectives

  • Build continuity across courses with sequenced practice experiences

Feedback & Assessment

Feedback that turns practice into improvement.

Deliberate practice depends on timely feedback. Skillsetter gives learners a structured loop: review their own performance, receive instant AI feedback aligned to rubric criteria, refine their response, and submit stronger work for instructor review. Instructors then evaluate the same performance against the same criteria, creating a more consistent way to coach, grade, and document interpersonal skill development.

  • Instant, rubric-aligned AI feedback before instructor review

  • Guided self-assessment and retry opportunities

  • Instructor evaluation tied to clear performance criteria

Competency Evidence

Show that learners can perform the skills your program teaches.

Skillsetter helps programs move beyond “we taught this” to “learners practiced and demonstrated this.” Each submitted response creates an observable record of performance that can support practicum readiness, field placement, clinical skills exams, accreditation review, or internal program assessment.

  • Rubric-scored submissions tied to competencies

  • Clearer visibility into learner readiness

  • Evidence for accreditation, audits, portfolios, and internal review

A Skillsetter cohort dashboard showing average scores, sessions recorded and per-learner progress

How it works

Practice the moment. Get feedback. Try again.

Skillsetter is built around the principles of deliberate practice: focused repetition, clear criteria, feedback, and refinement.

  1. 01

    Start with the competency

    A broad competency is translated into a specific, observable micro-skill.

  2. 02

    Practice at the right level of challenge

    The learner completes a realistic practice case designed for their stage of development.

  3. 03

    Respond in their own words

    The learner records their answer on camera, in their own words.

  4. 04

    Reflect and receive feedback

    The learner reviews their response against the rubric and receives structured guidance, including AI feedback where enabled.

  5. 05

    Refine before instructor review

    The learner can retry, improve, and submit stronger work.

  6. 06

    Evaluate against clear criteria

    Instructors review performance using aligned rubrics.

  7. 07

    Demonstrate progress over time

    Submissions create clearer evidence of skill development across learners, cohorts, and programs.

See Skillsetter in action

A closer look at the learner, instructor, and course experience.

  • A learner recording a practice response in Skillsetter

    Practice, from the learner’s seat

    Watch how a learner completes a practice case, reviews their response, and submits their work.

  • An instructor reviewing a learner submission in Skillsetter

    Feedback, from the instructor’s seat

    See how instructors evaluate learner submissions using rubric-based feedback.

  • Course and module configuration in Skillsetter

    Course setup, start to finish

    See how courses, modules, and assignments are configured inside Skillsetter.

Aligned to your curriculum, competencies, and goals.

Skillsetter is more than a platform. Our team helps programs translate competencies into micro-skills, select the right practice cases, align rubrics, and build course-ready practice experiences.

Whether you start with an existing course, a full program, or a custom training need, we help you create a practice sequence that fits how your learners are expected to perform.

Support can include:

  • Curriculum and competency alignment

  • Micro-skill definition

  • Scenario and module selection

  • Course assembly and LMS implementation

  • Faculty onboarding and refinement support

Trusted by 200+ programs. Built for institutional requirements.

AICPA SOC 2 for Service Organizations seal

Skillsetter is browser-based, integrates with Canvas, Blackboard, Brightspace, and D2L through standard LTI, and is SOC 2 Type II certified and VPAT documented. Student data is never used to train AI models.

Walden University
“The students performed magnificently, and now that grading has commenced I could not be happier with this assessment tool.”
Walden University

Build readiness for the moments that matter.

Skillsetter gives learners a safe, structured way to practice the conversations they cannot afford to face unprepared and gives programs clearer evidence that skill development is happening.

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