For schools
Instant oral assessment. Zero extra grading time.
A two-minute spoken check on work your students already submitted, marked by nobody and decided by their teacher. Here is what it does for your results, your staff and your standing with parents — and the questions proprietors actually ask us, answered.
Results
It should move your WAEC and NECO numbers
Asking a student to explain their reasoning aloud is retrieval practice — recalling something without your notes in front of you. It is among the most robustly evidenced ways to make learning stick, and it is the thing revision timetables almost never include.
So a term of vivas is not only a term of checks. It is ten short spaced retrieval exercises per subject, on the exact material your teachers set.
Workload
It takes work away from your teachers
There is nothing for staff to install, learn, or mark. They receive the homework they already receive, plus a short verdict on the work they were going to look at anyway — on WhatsApp, or written into the gradebook they already use.
If Viva adds a single step to a teacher’s day, the pilot has failed and you should drop it. We would rather you found that out in four free weeks than after an invoice.
Parents
It gives you a sentence you can defend
“We verify that our students understand their own work. We don’t police them.” That is a line you can put in a newsletter, and it holds up at a parents’ meeting.
It holds up because it’s true: no child is accused, no child is graded by software, and every recording is reviewed by their own teacher.
Getting started
From first call to first verdict, usually one week.
- 01
A 30-minute call
We agree the subject, the classes and the teacher.
- 02
A join code
Students send one message to start. No app, no accounts to create.
- 03
The first viva
Usually inside the same week, on homework already set.
- 04
A verdict
Their teacher’s phone, within minutes of the student finishing.
Questions we actually get
Including the ones we can’t answer in our own favour.
Our students aren’t allowed phones.
Then WhatsApp is the wrong channel and we won’t push it. Two things do work: the LMS version on school computers during ICT periods, or day students recording at home. If neither fits, this isn’t for your school this term, and we’d rather say so.
Our teachers are already overloaded.
That’s why there is nothing for them to do. They receive the same homework, plus a short verdict on work they were marking anyway. If it adds a single step to their day, the pilot has failed and you should drop it.
Parents won’t accept their children being recorded.
We designed around it. Consent is collected before any child records anything, and parents can see exactly what was asked and answered. Once they hear the framing — your child explains their own work, in their own words — most treat it as teaching rather than surveillance.
What if it misunderstands a Nigerian accent?
It will, sometimes. Speech recognition is genuinely weak on Nigerian-accented English and we won’t pretend otherwise. That is exactly why the teacher receives the audio, not just the transcript, and why the software has no authority to decide anything.
What does it cost?
The pilot is free. After that it is per student, per subject, per term — from ₦2,900, or ₦3,900 with Viva+ revisions. Whole-school cover is priced on your cohort. For most schools that is a fraction of one term’s fees per child.
Won’t our LMS just add this as a feature?
Some will, and we’d expect a checkbox that transcribes an answer and scores it. But the recording was never the hard part — choosing a question the student can’t prepare for was, and being right about a Nigerian accent often enough to be trusted. That is our whole product and a line item for theirs. Viva also writes into your existing gradebook rather than asking you to move.
We already use Edves, or another school management system.
Good — Viva isn’t one and won’t replace it. Yours handles fees, results and communication. Viva does the one thing it doesn’t: verify that a student understands what they submitted.
What happens to the recordings?
Consent, retention and erasure sit in a data-processing agreement we sign with your school, in line with the NDPA. How long recordings are kept is agreed with you — short by default. A named person at your school can ask us to erase a student’s data at any time, and we return a certificate when we have.
Can we see it before we commit?
That’s what the pilot is for: one subject, four weeks, free, and the findings are yours either way. Most schools start with Maths, Chemistry or Biology, where the gap between a right answer and real understanding shows fastest.
Try it on one class, free, for four weeks.
You’ll know how many of your students can defend their own homework — and the findings are yours either way.
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