An automated video role-play teaching system and process. In some embodiments, the system and process provides a software interface for teachers or others to establish situation scenarios for students, students to review the scenarios locally and locally record their role-play responses, which one or more teachers or others can then review in order to provide feedback to the students through the system. The interface can provide leaderboard ranking of students or role-play videos, selectable role-play scenarios established by a teacher or another, an automated calendar of role-play system related dates, such as due dates for example, and hot-seat role-play limiting the number of times a student can record the student's role-play into the system.