Practice

Practice provides open-ended training sessions where TAs can practice with student personas outside of graded assignments. Unlike Home (which shows assigned simulations), Practice surfaces all available practice simulations for self-directed skill development.

What is Practice?

Practice lets TAs engage with Confused, Aggressive, Passive, and Happy student personas on their own schedule. Practice simulations are separate from assigned training — they provide a low-stakes environment for TAs to rehearse office-hours scenarios like explaining difficult concepts, handling grade disputes, or de-escalating frustrated students.

Practice offers two views:

1. Simulation cards (POST /attempt/practice) — Available practice simulations with progress indicators, persona details, and rubric/standard mappings.
2. Attempt history (POST /attempt/search) — Paginated history of the TA’s practice attempts with scores, scenarios, and completion data.

Quick Start

CLI

Calls below use $GLOW_INSTANCE_URL + $GLOW_TOKEN — see Authentication to export them once.

# Get available practice simulations
glow attempts practice
 
# Search practice attempt history
glow attempts search --body '{"page": 1, "page_size": 20, "sort_order": "desc"}'
 
# Export practice data
glow attempts export

API

# Get practice simulation cards
curl -X POST $GLOW_INSTANCE_URL/attempt/practice \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $GLOW_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{}'
 
# Search practice history
curl -X POST $GLOW_INSTANCE_URL/attempt/search \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $GLOW_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "page": 1,
    "page_size": 10,
    "sort_by": "date",
    "sort_order": "desc"
  }'

Understanding the Simulation Cards

The POST /attempt/practice response mirrors the Home response structure:

• actor_name — Display name of the current TA.
• items — Array of ChatSimulationOperational objects for practice simulations:
  • simulation_id, simulation_name, simulation_description — Simulation identity
  • practice_id — UUID of the practice entry (used to start a session)
  • practice_simulation — Always true for practice simulations
  • color, icon — Persona display properties
  • status — "passed", "in-progress", or "not-started"
  • highest_score, pass_pct, has_passed — Performance data
  • num_sessions — Number of practice sessions
  • time_limit — Time limit in seconds
  • scenario_ids — Ordered scenario list
  • view_mode — Typically "practice"
• rubrics — Rubric metadata with rubric_id, name, standard_group_ids.
• standard_groups — Groups like “Communication Skills”, “Policy Knowledge”, “De-escalation” with points and pass_points.
• standards — Individual assessment standards within each group.

Retrying a practice session

Searching Practice History

The POST /attempt/search endpoint returns paginated HistoryItem rows.

Filters

Each HistoryItem includes attempt_id, simulation_name, score, score_status, persona_names_junction, scenario_titles, num_scenarios_completed, and action flags (show_view, show_continue). Practice attempts are identified by practice_simulation: true and may include a practice_scenario_id.

Practice vs. Home

Exporting practice data

Common Operations

Related

• Practice API Reference
• Practice CLI Reference
• Home Guide — assigned TA training
• Session Guide — session detail view