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Can Viva catch a student reading from a script?
Yes. Reading aloud sounds different from speaking, and a scripted answer does not survive a follow-up.
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Two independent things catch this, and they catch different students.
- Read-aloud detection. Speech that is being read has a different rhythm from speech that is being composed — flatter, unusually fluent, without the ordinary hesitations of someone thinking. When Viva sees this it is reported as evidence on the report.
- Follow-ups. This is the stronger one. A prepared answer covers the question that was expected; Viva then asks something that was not, about the specific thing the student just said. A script has no next page.
Tab-Switch Focus Monitoring and the camera check add context — a student reading from another window often switches tabs or looks away consistently. None of these is conclusive alone, which is why they are shown together.
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.