Scalable oral assessment for checking student understanding of submitted work
Check whether students can explain, justify, and discuss the work they have submitted through a short, structured conversation.
Students upload their work and respond to tailored oral questions, which gives educators a richer picture of learners understanding, reasoning, and progress toward learning outcomes.
What is Viva Vocina?
Check understanding through conversation
Viva Vocina is designed for educators who want more confidence that submitted work reflects genuine learner understanding.
Using a student’s uploaded work, Viva Vocina generates tailored questions at the level of that work. It asks learners to explain ideas, discuss sources, justify decisions, and apply concepts in different contexts.
It can be used as:
A parallel assessment alongside submitted work
An interactive oral assessment
A scalable conversational check-in to support educator judgement
Viva Vocina is not an AI detector. It is a tool for checking learners understanding through conversation.
Why oral assessments are useful
A submitted piece of work does not always show what a learner truly understands
Students can produce polished work in many different ways. But a finished submission does not always show whether a learner can explain their ideas, justify their choices, or apply what they have produced. Viva Vocina helps educators look beyond the final submission by creating a structured opportunity for learners to talk through their work. This supports a richer check of understanding and helps educators judge whether meaningful learning has occurred.
Key benefits of an AI oral assessment
Built for real educational settings
Focus on understanding, not just completion
Viva Vocina helps educators check whether students can explain ideas, justify choices, and discuss the work they have submitted in a meaningful way.
Support assessment in AI-enabled contexts
Rather than focusing on detection, Viva Vocina supports assessment approaches centred on explanation, reasoning, and demonstrated understanding.
Support learning outcomes
The conversation can help reveal whether learners are achieving the outcomes of a task or course, not just producing a finished submission.
Surface gaps in learning
The conversation can help identify where understanding is strong and where further teaching, feedback, or support may be needed.
Scale what good educators already do
Oral follow-up is a familiar and valuable educational practice. Viva Vocina brings that viva-style conversation into a more practical workflow for larger cohorts.
Provide richer evidence for educator judgement
Audio, transcripts, AI-generated feedback, and an understanding score give tutors another layer of evidence alongside submitted work.
Who Viva Vocina is for
Viva Vocina is designed for education providers that want a practical and scalable way to check whether learners understand the work they submit. It is suited to:
Designed for education and training providers
Schools and colleges
Private training establishments
Polytechnics and institutes of technology
Universities and other tertiary providers
Vocational education providers
Workplace and industry training providers
Viva Vocina is especially useful where learners are submitting work that is meant to demonstrate understanding, decision-making, applied knowledge, or professional judgement. This may include essays, reports, project work, portfolios, reflective tasks, research-based assignments, written responses, and vocational or competency-based coursework.
Wherever educators or trainers need to hear learners explain their thinking, justify their choices, and discuss what they have produced, Viva Vocina can add value.
Add conversation to assessment
Viva Vocina helps education providers check student understanding in a way that is practical, scalable, and grounded in submitted work.