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Is Viva actually adaptive?
Yes, in two ways: the questions are built per submission, and the follow-ups respond to what the student just said.
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Worth being precise, because "adaptive" is a word every product claims.
- Adaptive across students: each interview is generated from that student's own submission. No shared question bank.
- Adaptive within the conversation: a vague answer gets pressed, a strong answer moves on, and a claim that contradicts the submission gets checked.
- Adaptive in length, if you choose the Adaptive duration: 6-9 minutes depending on how much probing the answers need.
What it is not: it does not adapt difficulty to a student's past performance across assignments. Each interview judges the work in front of it, which keeps the standard the same for everyone.
This is one page of the documentation inside Viva.
Instructors get the rest — the walkthroughs, the screenshots, and Ask Viva, which finds the right page from a typed question.
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