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Verify student thinking in the AI era

Verify student thinking
in the AI era

Do your students understand the work they submit, or is AI doing most of the thinking?

Verify real understanding with secure, AI-powered conversational assessment.

Now integrating with

Canvas by Instructure

Thinking Mode connects to Canvas through LTI 1.3, letting teachers embed AI-powered discussion tasks directly into their Canvas assignments. Students launch straight from Canvas with a single click - no separate login required. Scores can be published back to Canvas automatically, keeping everything in one gradebook.

More LMS integrations coming soon

Schools switching on Thinking Mode across Australia:

Westminster School

Westminster School

Emmaus Christian College

Emmaus Christian College

Scotch College Adelaide

Scotch College Adelaide

Christian Brothers College

Christian Brothers College

St Michael's College

St Michael's College

Cornerstone College

Cornerstone College

How it works

Four simple steps to verify student understanding

01

Students Upload

Students upload their assignment to Thinking Mode

02

Secure Environment

Each student is moved into a full-screen, locked-down assessment environment

03

Conversational Assessment

Our AI asks each student specific and adaptive questions about their submission

04

Get Evidence

Get instant verification of what students understand about their submitted assignments

Why teachers choose Thinking Mode

Assessment designed to keep students thinking in the AI era

Hear the real voice of your students

Hear the real voice of your students

Full-screen lockdown mode ensures students demonstrate their own thinking, not AI's. Secure assessment built for the reality of the AI era.

Adaptive questioning that meets every student where they are

Adaptive questioning that meets every student where they are

Guided by established cognitive taxonomies, our AI adapts in real-time: asking the right question, for the right student, at the right time.

Safe, private, works everywhere

Safe, private, simple to use

Privacy-by-design to comply with the Australian Privacy Principles. Reinforced with additional child-safe guardrails that stubbornly stick to the assessment topic. Thinking Mode works on most internet browsers, no installs required.

Frequently asked questions

Everything you need to know about Thinking Mode

No. Thinking Mode helps you verify student understanding through conversational assessment guided by our AI models. The conversation is focused on the ideas, concepts and vocabulary included in the student's work.

It's designed to generate evidence of understanding, not to "catch" AI use.

Conversational assessment is an approach where students demonstrate their understanding through guided dialogue with an AI, rather than through traditional written tests. It allows for adaptive, personalised questioning that meets each student where they are.

No. Thinking Mode is not an at-home proctoring tool.

Students can continue to complete their take-home assignment in unsupervised conditions, but Thinking Mode is completed in class under teacher supervision.

Ideally, students complete the assessment defence (we call it 'Defence Mode') in class, on the day the task is due.

We have many types of assessment. But our flagship feature, 'Defence Mode' is what we think every teacher needs to know about:

  1. Students upload their assignment to Thinking Mode.
  2. They enter a full-screen, secure assessment environment
  3. Thinking Mode asks adaptive questions based on what each student has submitted
  4. Teachers get clear transcript evidence of the summary of understanding for each student

No. Student accounts are not required, and there's nothing to install. Teachers simply give their students a class code and students complete the assessment session using most common internet browsers.

No — not at all. Whilst 'Defence Mode' is our flagship feature, Thinking Mode is a conversational assessment platform built around three 'modes' that support teachers across the whole assessment cycle:

  • Defence Mode — Students upload an assignment and our AI asks specific questions about the ideas and vocabulary included in their final submission.
  • Revision Mode — AI asks adaptive questions to help students retrieve knowledge from long-term memory and connect their understanding across a topic.
  • Assessment Mode — AI asks increasingly complex questions to evaluate the depth of student knowledge and understanding about a topic.

We follow a privacy-by-design approach aligned to the Australian Privacy Principles (APPs): we collect only what's needed to run the session, don't sell personal data, and don't use student data to train AI models. Data is stored in Australia and schools can request access, correction, or deletion in line with their obligations.

Read our Privacy Policy: thinkingmode.com/privacy-policy

Currently we use multiple AI models from OpenAI, including GPT 5.2.

We are also exploring using AI models from Anthropic and Google.

Ready to verify real understanding?

Join schools across Australia turning on Thinking Mode to keep students thinking in the AI era.

No student accounts required
Real-time insights
No apps or installs
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