Oral defense interviews that scale

Academic Rigour
For the AI era

eViva runs short oral vivas at scale, on the devices your school already owns. Restore confidence in written work without losing your week to interviews.

The problem

In the AI era, it's harder than ever to be sure students understand the work they submit.

01

The thinking isn't theirs

An essay arrives polished, fluent, and three reading-ages above what the pupil produces in class. You suspect AI misuse. You can’t prove. You mark it anyway.

02

The honest pupils suffer

When everyone’s writing looks the same, the pupil who wrote their own loses the credit for it. Grade boundaries drift. Trust quietly erodes.

03

Vivas, but not at scale

An oral viva is the obvious answer. One teacher, a hundred pupils, ten minutes each. Doing it properly costs your week. Most schools do it badly or not at all.

How it works

A viva for every pupil, in one lesson.

You set the questions once. The class records on their own devices in fixed prep and record windows. You get back the same evidence a moderator wants - and so does the head of department who has to sign off the grade.

01

You set the questions

Type up to five prompts per student, set the preparation and recording time for each, and optionally add an image or screenshot for the student to reference.

02

Share a unique student link

Students receive a unique link to their personal eViva. Nothing to instal, no extra passwords. They check their camera and microphone and start recording directly from their browser.

03

No time for misconduct

Fixed preparation time, then the recording starts immediately. Tabs are monitored and submissions are timestamped. If a student wanders, evidence is collected.

04

Recordings land in your Google Drive

One folder per assignment, one file per student per question, named the way you named them. Student recordings are handed directly over to their teacher, they are never kept by us.

The product

Built to prioritise data security and ease of use.

Nothing to learn, nothing to install. A viva from every pupil, in the time it would have taken to do one.

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My assignments

Year 11 French - Spring orals
3 questions · shared 14 Jun
28 of 30 submitted
Due 21 Jun
Year 10 Biology - Osmosis
3 questions · shared 10 Jun
26 of 26 submitted
Closed
Year 12 History - New Deal
4 questions · shared 18 Jun
12 of 24 submitted
Due 25 Jun
Year 7 Spanish - Mi familia
2 questions · shared 4 Jun
29 of 30 submitted
Due 14 Jun
What you get

Built for the questions schools now have to answer.

01

Same conditions for every pupil

Fixed prep and record windows. Absentees get the same windows when they return. The viva you give in March is the viva you give in June.

02

Works on the devices schools own

Chromebook, iPad, staff laptop, shared PC. One link, Google sign-in, nothing to install.

03

Straight into Drive

Your Drive, your folders, your naming. Recordings are MP4 audio-video, one per question, ready for moderation.

04

Live session monitor

See who is mid-recording, who has submitted, and who has drifted off-tab, without looking over thirty shoulders.

05

Image and text references

Attach a photo, a diagram, or a passage to a question. Students see it during prep and record, not before.

06

A register that writes itself

Every viva comes with a CSV of who submitted, when, on which device, and how long each recording ran. Moderator-ready, governor-ready, awarding-body-ready.

Integrity and privacy

Lightweight integrity. Proper data handling.

We don't claim to proctor and we don't pretend to be an AI detector. We give you the evidence you need for confidence in what matters; student learning and comprehension.

  • Tab and focus monitoringThe student's browser tells us when focus leaves the recording tab. It does not end the session, but records the event to invite conversation later.
    In product
  • Timestamp and device logSubmission time, device, user-agent, and recording duration are logged against each answer. Enough to tell a moderator what happened.
    In product
  • Data stays in your DriveVideo files are stored in the teacher's school Google Drive, under the school's policies. eViva holds metadata only.
    GDPR
  • DPIA on requestData Protection Impact Assessment template and Article 28 processor agreement available before pilot.
    On request
  • No AI marking, no training on pupil dataRecordings are not used to train any model. We do not mark, grade, or summarise student answers. Teachers are simply given the evidence they need for their expert decision to be made with confidence.
    Never

Session log · A. Kaur · 18 Jun 14:02

14:02:04Camera check passedOK
14:02:18Q1 prep started (30s)-
14:02:48Q1 recording started (60s)-
14:03:48Q1 submitted · 01:00 durationOK
14:04:12Q2 prep started-
14:04:29Tab lost focus (4s)Flagged
14:04:42Q2 recording started-
14:05:42Q2 submitted · 01:00 durationOK
14:07:11Q3 submitted · 00:58 durationOK
14:07:12Session complete · 3 of 3Done
Book a pilot

One class, one cycle, no commitment.

We set you up in a twenty-minute call, run alongside your first viva, and hand you the recordings at the end. Then you decide whether it's worth a department, a year group, or a school.

Current pilots: secondary schools in the UK, Ireland, and international British schools. Sixth-form colleges and MATs welcome.

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