Perspectives on oral assessment, AI in education, academic integrity, and the future of how we verify what students actually know.
Academic IntegrityWhy AI detection is the wrong solution to the right problem
Similarity scores and AI detectors answer "Did this student write this?" — but the question that actually matters is "Does this student understand this?" Those require very different tools.
Viva Team · April 2025 · 6 min readComing soon
AI in EducationThe oral examination: humanity's oldest assessment tool is back
Socrates didn't use rubrics. The viva voce has been the gold standard for deep assessment for millennia. Here's why AI is finally making it scale to every classroom.
Viva Team · March 2025 · 8 min readComing soon
ResearchWhat 1,200 conversations taught us about authentic understanding
After our first year of deployment across 40+ schools, we analyzed patterns in how students speak about their own work — and what those patterns reveal that written assessment cannot.
Viva Research · February 2025 · 10 min readComing soon
PedagogyFeedback that students actually read — and remember
Written feedback lives in a comment box. Spoken feedback from a conversation you just had lives in your memory. We look at the evidence on why verbal feedback lands differently.
Viva Team · January 2025 · 5 min readComing soon
ProductIntroducing the Viva Card: a verified credential students can own
A grade on a transcript tells you what a student scored. A Viva Card tells you what they can demonstrate. Here's why we built a portable, shareable, verifiable record of oral performance.
Viva Team · December 2024 · 4 min readComing soon
AI in EducationDesigning for trust: how we think about AI's role in assessment
AI should augment teacher judgment, not replace it. Every design decision in Viva starts with the question: does this make teachers more capable, or does it make them redundant?
Viva Team · November 2024 · 7 min readComing soon