AI interactive oral assessments
for TAFE
The practical answer to scaling oral assessment as the integrity control for AI.
One change. Three pressures relieved.
Assessment integrity - Workforce capacity - AQF-level credibility
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ASQA's April 2025 IQ named academic cheating as a Regulatory Risk Priority and explicitly recommended supplementary oral questioning.
The regulator has named the control, but the pathway is unclear.
Assurar is the practical answer, applied at scale across whole cohorts and aligned to the Rules of Evidence.
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The Standards for RTOs 2025 raised the integrity bar at exactly the moment the trainer workforce is thinnest.
Half the VET workforce is over fifty; Jobs and Skills Australia projects 3,800 more VET teachers needed within five years. The staff for in-house oral assessment at scale are not there.
Assurar conducts oral exercises and exam for you and frees your educators for feedback, mentoring, and the interactions that drive completion.
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TAFE Centres of Excellence and the AQF 7 ambition are putting TAFE into direct credential competition with universities.
At AQF 7 the assessment-integrity bar rises sharply, and the existing competency-based evidence model gets stretched further.
Assurar gives you a documented, auditable assessment layer that holds at the higher-level qualifications you are now building toward.
ASQA-aligned. Rules-of-Evidence ready.
ASQA's published expectation is unambiguous: AI does not make assessment decisions - humans always validate.
Assurar is built to that frame. AI conducts the conversation and proposes a grade against your rubric; the educator reviews, adjusts, and approves.
A 10–15 minute AI-conducted oral session, recorded and educator-reviewed, is the most efficient additional evidence instrument most TAFE qualifications could ever deploy.
Live video interactive oral conversations
For a fraction of the cost of in-person examiner viva voce
A single in-person oral assessment takes 30–60 minutes per student to organise, conduct and grade. Across the cohorts a TAFE delivers, that is hours per learner you cannot recover from a workforce already stretched.
Assurar can conduct hundreds of oral sessions each week for a few dollars each - freeing educators to invest in feedback, contextualisation, and the practical demonstration time that drives both completion and graduate quality.
Elevate learning
Build the human skills employers ask for
Every interactive oral practice and assessment requires a student to organise their thinking, articulate it clearly, and respond to questions they haven't seen before.
Across a qualification, that compounds into something written knowledge questions do not develop - fluency in verbal reasoning, professional communication, and the confidence to handle the unscripted moments employers actually hire for.
For health, community services, business, and the trades - where workplace-ready communication is the headline outcome - this is the assessment modality that builds what your industry partners value.
Built on established assessment science
Using the same pedagogy as your training packages
Every word spoken in an Assurar session is captured: real-time speech-to-text transcription with timestamps, paired with a full video recording stored for as long as you need.
Educators review and approve AI-suggested grades against the actual transcript. If a learner appeals, or an ASQA reviewer requests samples, the complete record is there - no reconstruction, no examiner-note gaps, no ambiguity. Rules of Evidence - sufficient, valid, authentic, current - captured by design.
No sharing learner data or work with the public LLMs.
Full audit trail and strong data governance
Every session retains the transcript and video recording according to your data security standards
Bloom's Taxonomy: Each question type targets a specific cognitive level - from recall through to evaluation
Kane's Validity Framework: Every grade has an auditable evidence chain from learner response to unit of competency
Hattie & Timperley Feedback Framework: Every learner receives structured feedback: feed-up (what was expected), feed-back (how they performed), feed-forward (what to improve)
Structured Oral Competency Conversation: use unique conversations or the same structured exam to every learner - more reliable than ad-hoc oral questioning, with the consistency ASQA's Rules of Evidence expect.
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Assurar - beyond proctoring
AI detection software is reactive. Assurar is constructive and proactive, harnessing generative AI to elevate the quality of education and the capabilities of your learners.
We seek to empower educators to confidently validate learning at scale, transforming the assessment process into an opportunity to cultivate the critical communication, synthesis, and deep thinking skills essential for the future workplace.
Assurar was founded by an established Australian entrepreneurial team with a strong, globally validated track record in developing and scaling successful, enterprise-grade technology solutions.
Our Board of Advisors contribute deep, dual-sector expertise from the cutting edge of global technology innovation and the highest levels of academic governance, ensuring our solution is both pioneering and institutionally responsible.