Oral Assessment
Deliver structured oral assessment with your existing assessment workflows
Design, deliver, and manage targeted oral assessment moments linked to written work and learning outcomes — starting with scalable asynchronous delivery today, and AI-assisted personalised features coming in future releases.
Precision oral assurance for assessment in an AI-enabled world
Targeted oral assurance
Cadmus embeds short, structured oral moments only where explanation and reasoning matter most — strengthening confidence in learning outcomes without blanket oral exams or unsustainable workload.
Assurance of learning, not surveillance
Unlike proctoring, detection, or generic video tools that monitor conditions or prioritise presentation, Cadmus links oral explanation directly to a student’s own work, helping educators confirm genuine understanding and application.
Built for real academic practice
Cadmus operationalises oral assessment in ways that work for real universities — supporting asynchronous delivery, consistent marking, recorded evidence, and scalable moderation without fragile logistics or parallel workflows.
Human-led assurance with AI support
Cadmus supports educators to design consistent, high-quality oral assessment experiences at scale, with optional AI assistance that enhances preparation while keeping all academic judgement firmly in human hands.
Built with universities, for universities.
Cadmus Oral Assessment isn't a product built for the sector in isolation — it's being built with the sector, in partnership with academics navigating real assessment challenges in an AI-enabled world.
Through a closed Working Group, universities are shaping how oral assessment can scale without surveillance, protect academic integrity without added burden, and remain grounded in sound pedagogy and real academic workflows.
Start simple, scale with confidence.
Available April/May 2026 (Phase 1)
Introduce structured, asynchronous oral assessment moments within your existing assessments to validate student reasoning and understanding.
- Consistent prompts aligned to learning outcomes
- No scheduling or additional systems required
- Embedded marking and moderation workflows
- Scalable, low-friction implementation
Designed to evolve late 2026 (Phase 2)
Extend vivas into more targeted, contextualised assurance as part of the broader assessment journey.
- Link oral responses to student work
- Tailor prompts to context and learning outcomes
- AI-assisted support to deliver wide scale oral assessment
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Built for a range of assessment use cases
Cadmus Oral Assessment supports proportionate, defensible oral assurance across disciplines, cohort sizes and assessment designs.
Phase 1: Available Late April/May 2026
CREATION (DESIGN)
Create oral assessment moments aligned to learning outcomes
Design structured oral assessment moments directly within your assessment workflow, aligned to learning outcomes and marking criteria.
- Define response time, preparation time, and number of attempts
- Attach rubrics and marking criteria
- Add one or multiple video response questions in the same assessment
- Manage special considerations for students including extra time, attempts and more
DELIVERY AND INTEGRITY
Run secure oral assessment without surveillance or scheduling
Students complete video responses asynchronously, directly within Cadmus — without live scheduling, separate systems, or surveillance-based proctoring. Support both in-class and remote delivery through a scalable, consistent assessment experience that preserves spontaneity, and real-time reasoning designed to make studen thinking visible, not just measurable.
- Prompts are revealed at the point of response
- Students can view rubric details prior to their response
MARKING & MODERATION
Streamline marking and moderation at scale
Review oral assessment responses alongside written submissions with rubric-aligned marking and recorded evidence, supporting consistent, calibrated, and audit-ready workflows.
PEDAGOGY PARTNERSHIP
Turn oral assessment into a powerful learning moment
Deliver clear, rubric-linked feedback alongside each student’s oral response, supporting reflection, revision, and ongoing learning, not just validation.
Phase 2: Coming late 2026/2027
LINKED ASSESSMENT
Connect oral explanation to student work
Link oral assessment moments to a student’s previous written submission, enabling more contextualized questioning and deeper insights into their reasoning, judgement and understanding.
USE CADMUS AI
Scale oral assessment design with AI-assisted support
Optional AI-assisted support will help educators design and scale viva prompts — including generating contextualised questions based on previous student work, rubrics, and educator prompts.
- Faster creation of high-quality prompts
- All generated prompts are transparent and fully controlled by educators
- Cadmus AI will not mark, grade, or provide feedback
Stay up to date with Cadmus Oral Assessment
Cadmus Oral Assessment is being developed in close collaboration with universities and will continue to evolve as part of the Cadmus learning assurance platform.
We’re hosting regular product webinars and briefings to share upcoming capabilities, roadmap updates, and implementation guidance.
Can’t attend live? Register your interest to receive the recording and materials.
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A new standard for oral assessment at scale
Whether you’re redesigning assessment, piloting oral validation, or strengthening institutional assurance — only Cadmus Vivas delivers precision oral assurance embedded directly into assessment workflows at scale.