AI oral exam software that verifies real understanding
Prova conducts adaptive, spoken examinations with every student — then hands you rubric-aligned evaluations with full transcripts. The rigor of a one-on-one oral exam, without the calendar math.
The one format AI can't do for a student
Essays, problem sets, and take-home exams can all be produced by a chatbot in seconds. An oral exam can't. When a student has to explain their reasoning out loud — and respond to follow-up questions they didn't see coming — understanding is either there or it isn't.
Faculty have always known this. Oral examination is how doctoral candidates defend dissertations, how medical boards certify physicians, and how European universities assessed students for centuries. The only reason it disappeared from most coursework is arithmetic: an instructor with 120 students cannot run 120 conversations per assignment.
AI oral exam software removes that constraint. Prova conducts every conversation — adapting questions to each student in real time — and gives instructors structured, comparable results they can review in minutes.
Everything an oral exam should be — at software speed
No two exams alike
Prova probes deeper where answers are shallow and moves on where mastery is clear. Every student gets a unique conversation, so there are no answer keys to leak.
Your standards, applied consistently
Upload your rubric and Prova evaluates every student against the same criteria — the consistency of a single examiner, across an entire cohort.
Every grade backed by quotes
Each evaluation includes the full transcript and quoted evidence for every rubric line — ready for grade disputes, accreditation reviews, or a five-minute skim.
A plugin for your course as-is
Upload existing materials, set your rubric, share a link. Prova plugs into the course you already teach — no curriculum redesign, no semester-long integration project.
You hold the red pen
Prova provides structured evidence and an initial assessment. Final grades always stay with you — and every correction you make trains your course's agents to grade more like you. Your feedback never trains our general models.
Built for university procurement
SOC 2 and FERPA compliant, with HECVAT and VPAT documentation ready for your review process.
From syllabus to signed-off grades in three steps
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Configure the exam
Upload course materials or the assignment students will discuss, set your rubric, and choose the exam's length and focus.
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Students take the exam
Each student joins a spoken session from a link — no scheduling with you required. Prova conducts the conversation, adapting questions to each answer.
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Review and grade
You receive rubric-aligned evaluations with quoted evidence and full transcripts. Skim, adjust, and sign off — in minutes per student instead of an hour each.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is AI oral exam software?
AI oral exam software conducts spoken examinations with students through natural conversation. Prova asks questions about course material or submitted work, listens to the student's reasoning, asks adaptive follow-up questions, and produces a rubric-aligned evaluation with a full transcript — so instructors get the depth of a one-on-one oral exam without conducting each session personally.
How does grading work?
You define the rubric and learning objectives. Prova evaluates each response against them and produces a structured report with quoted evidence from the conversation. Instructors always have the final say on every grade — Prova provides the evidence and an initial assessment, not an unappealable verdict. And each time you adjust a grade, the agents used in your courses learn from it, applying your standards more precisely on the next assessment. That feedback trains only your course's agents, never our general models.
Can students cheat an AI oral exam?
It is far harder than any written format. Questions adapt in real time based on the student's previous answers, so there is nothing to copy from and no time to route questions through a chatbot. A student who cannot explain their own reasoning in live conversation reveals that immediately.
What subjects does it work for?
Prova is discipline-agnostic. Faculty use it in business, nursing, computer science, humanities, law, and engineering courses — anywhere explaining your reasoning out loud demonstrates understanding. You upload your own materials and rubric, and the exam adapts to your course.
How long does setup take?
Minutes, not weeks. Upload existing course materials, set your rubric, and share a link with students. No course redesign or LMS migration is required, and our team provides hands-on onboarding support.
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