Assessment validation and learning assurance for educators

When AI can generate answers, the challenge for higher education is not simply to determine whether AI was used. It's to design assessments that engage with AI appropriately while giving students meaningful opportunities to demonstrate their own thinking and learning.

Studiosity's Support & Validate takes a multi-layered approach to validating learning, combining authorship continuity, content knowledge and engagement with students' work.

Rather than starting from suspicion, it supports a more constructive approach to assessment, one that builds trust between educators and students, recognises the role of AI in learning, and keeps students' thinking at the centre.

Your interactive walkthrough:

Explore how Support & Validate works, from the educator dashboard through to a student’s self-validated submission and beyond.

How it works

1. Set up your assignment as usual

Start by creating your assignment in your learning management system (LMS), then link it to Studiosity.

You have two controls to tailor the validation experience to your assessment:

The level of demonstrated learning you want to see

Choose how students can demonstrate their learning, from authorship continuity through drafts to content knowledge and engagement with their work. Together, these elements help build a picture of each student's thinking and learning journey.

The level of AI integration in your assessment

Choose the level of AI use appropriate for your assessment, based on the AI for Assessment Scale (Furze et al., 2024).

2. See clear indicators of validated learning

Get a quick overview of validation statuses across your course, unit or paper, without relying on a single integrity score.

The focus is on understanding students' learning and thinking journey, rather than relying solely on end-point checks at submission.

3. Explore individual results when you need to

When more context is useful, you can review an individual student's validation results to support your assessment and grading decisions.

What do students see?

Once the assignment is set up, students can access their assignment details as usual. The validation process is integrated into their existing workflow.

• Establish their writing baseline. Students upload a writing sample to help establish authorship continuity.
• Submit their assignment. Students submit directly within Studiosity, where they can also access formative feedback to support their learning.
• Demonstrate their understanding. At submission, students respond to short, timed, viva-style questions about their assignment, helping demonstrate their content knowledge and understanding.

Together, these elements provide a more complete picture of a student's demonstrated learning.