Tolus is asking · illustrative sample
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Tolus is asking · illustrative sample
The student answers by voice.
Oral defenses for Google Classroom
Know what students understand.
Turn submitted work into a short oral defense with a score, rubric evidence, and transcript.
Plan a one-class pilot→
No student accountAudio is not stored
From Classroom to completed record.
Playing step 01: Choose and publish
Every score comes with the conversation behind it.
Move between rubric categories to inspect each score and evidence note. The completed transcript remains available as a separate record.
Sample evidence reviewInteractive fictional sample
HIST-202 / COMPLETEDOverall defense score
8.0 / 10
Conceptual clarity
Explained the shift in political authority in their own words.
Separate transcript excerpt
- Tolus
- What changed in political authority, in your own words?
- Student
- Rulers governed their own territory instead of answering to one higher religious authority.
Category notes and the transcript are separate parts of the completed record.
“Every student I interviewed said Tolus’s evaluation was fair and accurate.”
Aaron BraskinDepartment Chair and Computer Science TeacherMira Costa High SchoolAdd a defense without rebuilding the assignment.
Teachers start from work already submitted in Google Classroom. The defense layers on top, and the grade returns when delivery succeeds.
- Your assignmentThe Google Docs work already submitted in Classroom is the source. Nothing to re-upload.
- Your rubricTolus reads the rubric you already use, and you review it before the defense is published.
- Your gradebookThe defense grade returns to Google Classroom. There is no separate system to run.
Transcript document attachment is best-effort and may require a teacher to reconnect Google access.
The operating facts, up front.
A pilot should be understandable to teachers, administrators, and IT before it reaches students.
- Student access
- Classroom defense link plus a private per-class PIN. No separate student account.
- Supported source work
- Native Google Docs submissions in the current Classroom workflow.
- Audio
- Streamed for transcription and not stored by Tolus.
- Model training
- Student defense content is used to provide the school-authorized service, not to train shared models.
- Retention
- Text defense records follow the school's configured policy; the current default is 18 months.
- Teacher record
- Overall score, rubric breakdown, evidence notes, and the completed transcript in Tolus.
The practical questions, answered.
Is Tolus an AI detector?
No. Tolus does not estimate who wrote an assignment. It asks the student to explain the work they submitted and gives the teacher the completed defense record.
Do students need to create an account?
No. Students open the defense link from Google Classroom and enter the private PIN assigned to them for that class.
Which Classroom submissions can Tolus read?
The current Classroom workflow reads native Google Docs submissions. PDF and other uploaded submission formats are not yet ingested as defense source material.
What does a teacher receive after a defense?
A completed score, rubric-category breakdown, evidence notes, and the full transcript. Tolus can return the grade to Google Classroom and may attach a transcript document when delivery succeeds.
What happens to student audio?
Audio is streamed for transcription and is not stored. Tolus retains the text defense record under the school's configured policy; the current default is 18 months.
Built by people you can reach.
We know this problem from the student side. Dennis just graduated high school, and Hao is still in high school. We’re building Tolus because students deserve a fair way to show what they understand, and teachers deserve evidence they can trust.
Start with one assignment.
We’ll scope the workflow with your teacher, support the launch, and review the completed evidence together.