Getting Started with VivaEdu
A quick guide in unlocking your students critical thinking dialogue
What is Viva voce?
Viva Voce is an educational platform which measures your understanding, reasoning and communication skills through structured real-time conversations. After submitting your assignment, you'll engage in an adaptive dialogue where you explain your thinking, respond to challenges and apply ideas. Demonstrating complete understanding in action.
The Assessment Process
Submit Your Assignment
Upload your work in PDF, DOCX, DOC, or TXT format. Viva Voce scans your content, identifies key themes, and prepares tailored questions.
Supported formats:
- • PDF (.pdf)
- • Microsoft Word (.docx, .doc)
- • Plain text (.txt)
Adaptive Questioning Tool
Viva Voce reviews your assignment and creates personalized questions that adapt to your arguments, evidence, and style. Using Bloom's taxonomy, the tool challenges you to apply knowledge, analyse ideas, and evaluate evidence — ensuring your thinking is explored from every angle.
Participate in Your Viva Session
For each question, you’ll have time to prepare, then record your spoken answer. This is a space for live thinking — not pre-written responses.
Review & Feedback
Your instructor reviews AI transcripts and analysis, focusing on reasoning quality, clarity, and depth of thought — not whether AI was used in your assignment.
During Your Session
Structure:
- • Prep Phase: Read and plan your response
- • Recording Phase: Speak your answer
- • Next Question: Automatically advances
- • Controls: Start • Pause/Resume • Stop Early
Requirements
- • Microphone access (prompted automatically)
- • Stable internet connection
- • Modern browser (Chrome, Firefox, Safari)
- • Quiet space
Tips for Success
Do:
- • Review your assignment beforehand
- • Speak clearly at a steady pace
- • Use specific examples
- • Address each part of the question
- • Use all your prep time
Avoid:
- • Rushing
- • Speaking too softly or too quickly
- • Giving overly short answers
- • Ignoring multi-part questions
- • Skipping your reasoning
FAQ
Mistakes while recording?
You can restart before submitting each answer.
Pause and return later?
Complete in one sitting, but you control prep time.
Tech issues?
Contact your instructor right away.
Session length?
Typically 10–15 minutes, depending on the number of questions and prep time.