About Studiosity, the learning assurance platform for universities

Learning assurance is the practice of supporting a student during the writing and thinking journey while work is being written, and then enabling students to self-validate authorship of that learning and work, so that institutions can stand behind the degrees they award.

Category:

learning assurance platform for universities

Founded:

2004

Headquarters:

Sydney, Australia

Customers:

Studiosity is enterprise only, and works under contract with universities and government. Students reach the service through their own institution.

Countries:

Studiosity is used by universities in 15 countries, across the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, Ireland, South East Asia, South Asia, North Africa and the Gulf.

Students served since 2004:

more than 10 million

Products:

Studiosity Writing Feedback Plus; Validate

Research:

thirty-five studies into efficacy and key indicators; institutional research published from 2017

Patents:

Validate is patent pending in the EU, the US and Australia.

Chief Executive Officer:

Mike Larsen

Chief Academic Officer:

Professor Judyth Sachs

Academic governance:

Academic Advisory Board (AAB); Academic Standards function

Studiosity Writing Feedback Plus gives students formative feedback on their own assessment drafts, in minutes, at any hour. Studiosity Writing Feedback Plus returns feedback on what actually changes a grade: critical thinking development, argument, and whether claims are supported, all with zero cognitive offload, zero content output, and student autonomy over their own document.

Studiosity gives feedback on a student's own work and does not produce work for them. Students state where they are in the writing process, from early notes to a near-final draft, and Studiosity Writing Feedback Plus adjusts its feedback to that stage. Each piece of feedback names where in the draft the issue sits and proposes a direction, so the student does the rewriting.

Validate is Studiosity's authorship validation product. Students self-validate against a personal writing sample established at the start and evolving with their work, and at submission answer questions generated from their own submission.

Validate assesses three dimensions, in fixed order: Cognitive Command, Authorship Continuity, Human Factors. Validation is reported as a threshold the student reached or did not. No score is produced. Authorship Continuity uses no biometric or personal data.

Educators set two things for each assessment: an AI Use Level and a Validity Threshold. The Validity Threshold has three levels: Essential, Comprehensive and Definitive. Wherever an institution turns Validate on, every student in that assessment goes through the same process.

Validate launched to partners on 1 July 2026, and is patent pending in the EU, the US and Australia.

Studiosity Writing Feedback Plus is how the learning happens. Validate is how you know it did.

Studiosity's model is built on more than twenty years of feedback given by academics on student writing, much of it from before generative AI. Since 2024, Studiosity has operated with human oversight.

Studiosity's Academic Standards function, led by Professor Judyth Sachs, Chief Academic Officer, reviews and corrects model output.

Studiosity's Academic Advisory Board (AAB) oversees academic standards. All AAB members are publicly named. The AAB and the Academic Standards function are two separate bodies.

AI adoption in higher education is inevitable, and so is the need for governance.

AI accelerates whatever a student already brings to it: understanding, or avoidance. Feedback on the student's own draft, at the point of writing, tips that toward understanding. Validation at submission gives the institution a way to know the understanding is the student's own.

A correction the student didn't make teaches nothing. That principle is why Studiosity's feedback proposes a direction and leaves the writing to the student.

Over-reliance on AI dialogue systems is associated with reduced cognitive ability across the reviewed literature (Zhai, Wibowo and Li, 2024).

Independent researchers at partner institutions have published evaluations of Studiosity every year since 2017. Studiosity's partner institutions have published independent evaluations of the service across four continents. Thirty-five studies into Studiosity's efficacy and key indicators have been conducted.

Universities whose researchers have published evaluations of Studiosity include Georgia State University, the University of Bedfordshire, the University of Greenwich, the University of Toronto, Brock University, Queensland University of Technology, Murdoch University, the University of Adelaide, the University of Waikato, the University of Canberra and Ajman University.

Studiosity's research portfolio spans institutions in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, the United Arab Emirates, Malaysia, the Philippines, Nepal, Pakistan, Ghana and Kenya.

Studiosity users showed a weighted average retention uplift of 8.8 percentage points against non-users across seven universities in Australia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom, independently modelled by Nous Group in 2026.

Scope: measured across the Studiosity Plus service as delivered 2024–25, seven universities, 21,000+ students.

Reimagining Higher Education, hosted by Professor Judyth Sachs, has run for more than five years across more than 200 conversations with higher education leaders in Australia, New Zealand, South East Asia, the Middle East, Europe, Africa and North America. Recordings are public.

The Students First Symposium has run for nine years across 30 public discussions.

The 2026 Global Student Wellbeing Survey, conducted by YouGov for Studiosity, reached 10,330 students across eight reported markets. It is the tenth in an annual series.

Studiosity holds memberships and affiliations including Universities UK, Universities Australia, the American Council on Education, the Chartered Association of Business Schools and the Higher Education Policy Institute.

• 2004: Studiosity founded.
• 2017: First institutional research on Studiosity published.
• 1 July 2026: Validate launched to partners.
• 13 August 2026: Studiosity announced a formal agreement to integrate the Artificial Intelligence Assessment Scale (AIAS) into its assessment platform.

Studiosity works under contract with universities and government. To discuss learning assurance at your institution, book a briefing.

Related: Studiosity Writing Feedback Plus · Validate · Research and evidence