Verbal Exams
Verbal Exams covers recorded answers, random questions, project defenses, and practice before grading.
The four exam templates
Verbal Exams is the pack for answering questions on camera and defending work. Its four templates include ten ready-made question sets. You can use a supplied set or write your own questions.
Oral Exam
Question sets
| Template | Scenario example | The student's task |
|---|---|---|
| Oral Exam | Harlow Inn | Identify the concerns behind five objections from a hotel manager. |
| Oral Exam | Cedar Hollow Landscaping | Examine a colleague's discovery call and propose better questions. |
| Project Defense | Bluestem Dental Supply | Defend a plan for 64 accounts within 20 selling hours a week. |
| Project Defense | LiftLog | Defend a prospecting plan to sign eight new gyms. |
Draft from my topic fills in a question list for your revision. You check the questions and their order before creating the assignment.
Oral Exam, Question Draw, and Project Defense use prompt cards. Students see the cards when recording starts and use Next question for a sequence. The Studio saves each Question Draw result, so reloading shows the same question.
Starting recording settings
| Setting | Oral Exam and Question Draw | Project Defense and Practice Oral Exam |
|---|---|---|
| Recording attempts | One try | Retakes allowed |
| Screen sharing | Optional for Oral Exam; Required for Question Draw | Optional |
| Verification phrase and Session signals | On | Off |
| Peer review | Off | Off |
| Self-review with the rubric | Off | On for Practice Oral Exam; off for Project Defense |
The verification phrase asks students to speak a phrase on camera to show that the recording is live. Session signals asks students to use full screen and records when they leave the page. Those observations appear with the recording for review.
Reviewing exams and practice
Oral Exam uses the Oral Exam Rubric. Question Draw uses the Question Response Rubric, and Project Defense uses the Viva Voce Rubric. You can review each displayed question at the moment when it appeared. Details holds your choice for how the AI's grade is used.
Practice Oral Exam uses Feedback only, no grade. Students score their recording against the Exam Self-Review Form before reading feedback.
Practice out loud is available on an assignment with the AI assistant on. The student speaks to a practice partner, and the AI answers in text.