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Fluent – oral assignment defense

Find out what your students really know.

Validate if AI was used. Let the student show what they know

Every student defends their own paper in a short AI interview. You see exactly what each one understands, with feedback ready to approve.

Defend Your Paper: SOC 101 EssayExplain and defend the argument in your essay
Dr. Ellen Hart

You argue that social media replaces face-to-face time rather than adding to it. Which source in your paper supports that, and what did that study actually measure?

You

Twenge’s study. It tracked teens’ daily screen time against how often they saw friends in person, and as one went up, the other went down.

Dr. Ellen Hart

Good. A critic would say lonely teens simply use social media more, so the arrow points the other way. How does your essay answer that?

For university leaders

Be the answer your faculty are asking for.

You’re the one faculty turn to about AI and student work. Fluent gives you a ready solution for them: an oral defense for every assignment, running this semester.

  • Live in days, with the LMS your faculty already use
  • Consistent, rubric-based evidence for every student
  • Class results you can share with leadership
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For lecturers

Hear what every student knows.

In less than an hour, set up an AI interview based on your curriculum and evaluation criteria. Students upload their paper and the interviewer asks them about it. You keep full control over the feedback and the grade.

  • Your weekends back
  • Evidence in the student’s own words
  • A grade you can stand behind

Free trial: 50 interviews, LMS included.

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How it works

From assignment to class results in three steps

  1. Build it from your assignment

    A guided chat turns your assignment and rubric into an interview in under an hour. Share it by link or through your LMS.

  2. Students defend their paper

    Each student uploads their paper and answers questions about it, by voice or text, in a locked, secure browser.

  3. You approve and see the class

    Review AI-drafted feedback for each student, edit or approve it, and export the class results to a spreadsheet or your LMS.

Voice or text

A real conversation about their own paper

Students talk it through out loud or type their answers. The interviewer has read their paper, follows up on what they say, and covers every point in your rubric.

Your paper: Chen_SOC101_Essay.pdf

Dr. Ellen HartListening

Which source in your paper shows that social media replaces face-to-face time, and what did that study actually measure?

What you see

Clear evidence for every student, and the whole class at a glance

Student report · sampleMaya Chen · SOC 101 · overall 89
Class grade book · sampleIntro to Sociology (SOC 101) · 30 of 32 completed · average 82

Worth reteaching: answering the counterargument (class average 71).

Sample data for illustration. Product screens shown as mock-ups.

Every discipline

Any written assignment can be defended

Medicine

A resident walks through the reasoning behind their case report: why this diagnosis, what they ruled out.

Business

An M&A paper defended live: where is the ZOPA, what is each side’s BATNA, what moves the deal.

Education

A student teacher explains the choices in their lesson plan and how they’d adapt it for the class in front of them.

Law

A legal memo questioned like a moot court: the strongest counterargument, and how the precedent applies.

Philosophy

An essay on Plato’s Republic, pressed in the Socratic way: what would Thrasymachus say to that?

Architecture

A design statement for a playground beside a factory, defended on safety, light and community use.

Questions

What faculty usually ask

Fluent focuses on knowledge. Every student gets the same chance to show they understand their own work, however it was written, and you see the evidence in their own words.

See Fluent with one of your own assignments.

Fifteen minutes: a live interview, the feedback lecturers approve, and how your faculty can start this semester.

Book a 15-minute session