The oral assessment platform built for higher education
Run oral exams, defenses, and role-plays as a consistent, auditable process — across courses, sections, and departments — with the compliance posture your procurement team expects.
Written assessment no longer certifies anything
When AI can produce indistinguishable coursework, every grade built on written submissions carries an asterisk. That is not just an academic-integrity issue — it is an accreditation and reputation issue. Institutions certify that graduates know things. The instruments behind that certification are failing.
Individual instructors are improvising responses course by course: in-class handwritten exams, AI policies nobody can enforce, detection tools with well-documented false-positive problems. What institutions need is an assessment method that is trustworthy by design — and a platform that makes it operationally viable across a department, not just in one heroic instructor's seminar.
Oral assessment is that method. Prova is the platform that scales it.
What a department needs that a point tool can't provide
One rubric, every student
The same criteria applied identically across sections, instructors, and terms — no examiner drift, no section lottery. Rubric application is auditable down to quoted evidence, and faculty grading decisions continuously tune each course's agents toward that instructor's standards.
Evidence for every grade
Full transcripts and rubric-linked quotes back every evaluation — a paper trail for grade appeals, academic-integrity cases, and accreditation reviews.
Procurement-ready
SOC 2 and FERPA compliant, with HECVAT and VPAT documentation prepared for higher-education vendor assessment. Student data is treated as the educational record it is.
Adoption without redesign
Prova is a plugin for the courses faculty already teach, not a new curriculum. Upload existing materials and rubrics — no course rebuild, no new LMS. A single assessment can be piloted in one afternoon, which is how most departments start.
More than exams
Oral exams, defenses of submitted work, professional role-plays, and case discussions — one platform covers the spoken-assessment formats programs actually use.
A partner, not a login
Dedicated onboarding and ongoing support through pilot and rollout — plus faculty training that goes beyond the platform: the current state of AI, how it's used in the industries your programs feed, and how to teach with it. Your faculty stay current; your students inherit that fluency.
Where oral assessment earns its keep first
High-enrollment gateway courses
Where grade integrity matters most and one-on-one time is scarcest. Prova gives every student in a 300-seat course a real oral assessment.
Professional programs
Nursing, business, law, and education programs that already value spoken competence — patient conversations, client interactions, classroom management — can now assess it systematically.
Online and hybrid programs
Programs whose written assessments are most exposed to AI can add a spoken verification layer without proctoring software or scheduling marathons.
Capstones, theses, and defenses
Extend the defense format below the graduate level — every capstone and major project defended in conversation, not just submitted.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is an oral assessment platform?
An oral assessment platform lets institutions run spoken examinations — oral exams, defenses, role-plays, and structured discussions — as a repeatable, auditable process rather than an ad-hoc faculty effort. Prova handles conducting the conversations, applying rubrics consistently, and producing evidence-backed evaluations across courses and departments.
How does Prova fit our procurement and security requirements?
Prova is SOC 2 and FERPA compliant, and provides HECVAT and VPAT documentation for higher-education vendor review. Our trust center at trust.prova.education has current documentation for your security and accessibility teams.
Does it integrate with our LMS?
Prova works alongside your existing LMS rather than replacing it. Faculty share assessment links with students through whatever channel they already use, and results export for your gradebook. No migration project is required to start a pilot.
How do we keep grading consistent across sections and instructors?
Rubrics are defined once and applied identically to every student — across sections, instructors, and terms. Every evaluation includes quoted evidence from the transcript, so departments can audit how criteria were applied and calibrate rubrics with real data.
Who has the final say on grades?
The professor, always. Prova produces evidence and an initial rubric-aligned assessment; instructors review, adjust, and decide. Those adjustments feed a reinforcement loop that tunes the agents used in that course — each override teaches them to apply that instructor's standards more precisely. This feedback improves only the agents serving your institution's courses; it is never used to train our general models.
What does a pilot look like?
Most institutions start with a handful of faculty running one Prova assessment each in a single term. We provide hands-on onboarding, training, and support throughout. From there, departments typically expand to high-enrollment courses where assessment integrity matters most.