Assessment and quality
AI viva voce and oral assessment for AI-era courses
Written take-home work is easy to outsource to AI, so departments are moving to oral vivas. Teachrity runs the first round at scale: an AI examiner asks follow-ups, scores against a faculty rubric and records evidence, while faculty keep control of the final mark.
Why orals now
A single professor cannot run three 15-minute vivas for 120 students each semester. Voice assessment brings authentic reasoning back without that workload.
How it runs
The student answers, the AI probes, and the transcript and rubric evidence are stored for faculty to sample. Unclear audio is flagged, not counted against the student.
Law, vocational and humanities
Legal reasoning vivas, vocational competency checks and humanities thesis defences all fit the same format.
Practice versus assessment
Students rehearse in practice mode first. Faculty decide which attempts count and keep an appeal route open.
Sample exchange
A thesis defence follow-up
AI examinerYour argument relies on one source. Why is it reliable?
StudentIt is the only dataset covering all districts, but I tested it against two smaller surveys.
AI examinerWhat did you do when they disagreed?
StudentI reported the gap and limited my claim to the national trend.
Illustrative script written to show the format. It is not a transcript of a real learner.
Scenarios in this track
4 practice scenarios sit under this topic. Open any to see the situation a learner rehearses.
Legal Reasoning Assessment Software For Law Colleges
A faculty member asks a student to apply a supplied legal rule to facts that change during the conversation.
AI Oral Assessment Platform For Vocational Training
An assessor asks a learner to explain why they chose a particular step in a practical task and what they would do if a condition changed.
Authentic Assessment Strategies In The Age Of AI
A lecturer wants students to use AI responsibly while demonstrating independent reasoning on a changed set of facts.
AI Viva Voce & Oral Assessment Platform for Online Degrees
A final-semester online student defends their thesis on algorithmic trading models. The AI examiner asks the student to explain why they selected a specific regression model over a neural network and prompts them to interpret unexpected variance in their results.
Frequently asked questions
Can AI viva grades be final?+
Teachrity produces provisional evidence. The institution keeps a human decision-maker for any consequential mark.
Can students cheat a voice viva?+
Live questioning with follow-ups is harder to outsource than an essay, but security needs are agreed per assessment.
Does it work for engineering project vivas?+
Yes, with faculty-supplied rubrics and checkpoints.
Related on Teachrity
Teachrity supports practice and evidence. Consequential decisions, such as grades, certification or hiring, stay with accountable people at the institution or employer.
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