Oral Practice
Practice oral assessment skills before the high stakes moment
Oral Practice gives students a formative way to practice articulating their reasoning, either about their own work or a chosen topic, before a high-stakes moment. Instructors gain early visibility into how students think, while students build oral skills with lasting value.
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Written work no longer shows genuine understanding
When AI makes it easy to produce convincing work without genuine understanding, submitted outputs stop being reliable evidence of learning. The problem is that surfacing the reasoning behind the work, at scale, has always been too hard.
Oral Practice closes that gap by giving every student a dedicated space to practice before a high-stakes assessment. Sessions run with our pedagogy-driven AI as a conversation partner or with a peer, around submitted work or skills. Each session is recorded and stored automatically, so students can track how they develop and instructors can see that progress.
Oral Practice closes that gap by giving every student a dedicated space to practice before a high-stakes assessment. Sessions run with our pedagogy-driven AI as a conversation partner or with a peer, around submitted work or skills. Each session is recorded and stored automatically, so students can track how they develop and instructors can see that progress.
Why choose Oral Practice
for your classroom?
Demonstrate authorship and understanding
A structured opportunity for students to explain their reasoning, reflect on their work individually or in a group, and demonstrate that their learning comes from genuine understanding, not just the final output.
Instructors gain reliable evidence of learning
Meaningful insight into how well students understand and can explain their work, without requiring hours of manual review or additional one-to-one assessment time.
Institutions scale authentic learning conversations across cohorts
A consistent, evidence-based approach to student dialogue that reduces operational burden for teaching teams while maintaining quality across large-scale learning environments.
With Oral Practice you can
Practice with AI or peers, no stakes attached
Students get a dedicated space to rehearse before any grade is attached. They can run sessions with Acai standing in as the assessor, or practise with a peer in role. No limit on attempts. By the time it counts, the format already feels familiar.
Submitted work or oral skills, instructor sets the mode
Students can hold a structured, AI-guided conversation about a piece of work they have already submitted, practising how they explain and defend their own thinking. Or configure sessions around oral skills directly, with no submission required, for students new to the format.
Multiple rounds, tracked across attempts
Students can return as many times as they need. Every session is recorded, transcribed, and stored so students can review their own delivery, compare across attempts, and build confidence progressively. Instructors can see participation and progress without leaving the LMS.
AI support, when you need it
Acai is our pedagogy-driven AI built into every stage of the practice session. Turn on the elements that work for you:
- Preset question building: generates structured conversation starters based on the topic or submission
- Live follow-up prompts: surfaces dynamic questions mid-session as the conversation develops
- Preset question building: generates structured conversation starters based on the topic or submission
- Live follow-up prompts: surfaces dynamic questions mid-session as the conversation develops
In your LMS, on any device
No external tools, no room bookings, no file transfers. Everything runs directly within your LMS so students can record from desktop, tablet, or mobile: wherever learning actually happens, inside or outside the classroom. There is nothing extra for IT to set up, no third-party platform to navigate, and no friction between students and the activity itself.
Synced, stored, and ready to review
Every session is captured and synced within your learning environment automatically. Participation is tracked at activity level, recordings are stored without manual admin, and instructors can review sessions without leaving the LMS. Nothing gets lost between submission and review, and everything students do in Oral Practice is available the moment the session ends.
See Oral Practice inside your LMS
We’ll walk through your current assessment approach, show how Oral Practice works inside your LMS, and answer questions specific to your institution’s courses and goals.
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