The return of oral assessment, and why it's different this time
There's no substitute for hearing a student think out loud, explain their reasoning, and defend an idea. That's why oral assessment has been one of higher education's most trusted ways to see real understanding for decades, and it matters more than ever in the age of AI. What held institutions back was never the pedagogy, it was doing it effectively at scale.
Join us on September 22 to see how our new Oral Assessment and Practice solution solves that. Built as three tools, Oral Practice gives students a low-stakes space to rehearse with an AI agent or peers, Oral Assessment lets instructors run live, criteria-aligned conversations, and Oral Reflection gives students a structured way to walk through their own reasoning on camera, cutting instructor review from hours to minutes.
You'll leave with the insights into this shift, a live look at all three tools in action, and a clear picture of what it takes to run oral assessment consistently, at any cohort size, without adding to your team's workload.
What you'll learn
- Understand why oral assessment remains higher education's most trusted way to verify real understanding.
- Explore the shift AI has created: unclear authorship, a widening critical-thinking and verbal-skills gap, and mounting regulatory pressure.
- See Oral Practice, Oral Assessment, and Oral Reflection in action across the full student journey.
- Discover what it takes to run oral assessment consistently at any cohort size, without added workload.
Meet our speakers
Bas Hintemann is the Chief Strategy Officer at FeedbackFruits, bringing over nine years of experience across Product and Operations. In his current role leading Product Strategy, he plays a key role in shaping the Learning Design System—focusing on delivering cost-effective solutions that enhance engagement in course activities and leverage AI to support student learning journeys.
Ewoud is the CEO and Founder of FeedbackFruits, an ed-tech scale-up based in Amsterdam, whose purpose is to co-create pedagogical tools that drive student engagement while increasing teacher productivity. Ewoud's journey and the idea behind FeedbackFruits began at the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands. As a student member of the Dutch national accreditation committee, Ewoud’s vision was to change the way education is designed, by increasing interactivity and collaboration in course design. Ewoud co-founded FeedbackFruits in 2012, which grew to global success in the years after. Today, he continues to lead an international team of over 80 employees under the mission of transforming education by making every course engaging.
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