Shape the assessment
The lecturer approves the source material, learning outcomes and the reasoning capabilities being assessed.
Assessment infrastructure for an AI era
When answers are easy, assess the reasoning.
Akanya helps higher learning institutions make student evidence, judgement and revision visible inside the assessments they already run.
Designed for lecturers. Structured for institutions. Built around human judgement.
Designed for equitable, low-bandwidth assessment. No cameras. No surveillance. No additional hardware.
Why Akanya
The student's role is changing.
A final answer can now be fluent without showing what the student understood. Akanya keeps the answer, then adds the evidence, challenge and judgement that formed it.
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AI can produce
A polished answer, calculation or recommendation in minutes.
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Institutions still need to assess
Whether the student can select evidence, reason and exercise judgement.
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Akanya makes visible
The path from evidence and initial position to challenge, adaptation and final judgement.
How Akanya works
From source material to reviewable judgement.
Akanya adds structured evidence, challenge and revision to assessments lecturers already run, then turns that journey into focused review and cohort insight.
Capture the first judgement
Students respond using evidence and commit to an initial position, so the assessment records more than a polished final answer.
Introduce an adaptive challenge
When closer reasoning is required, Akanya asks the student to defend, qualify, modify or replace the position.
Review what changed
Lecturers see the reasoning journey, focused marking cues and patterns across the cohort while retaining the final academic decision.
Less time reconstructing student thinking. More useful evidence for marking, moderation and teaching.
Focused markingCohort insightReviewable reasoning
What the assessment can see
The same student. Two different records.
A traditional submission ends at the polished answer. The reasoning journey keeps the answer and adds the basis for it.
Evidence marked decisive
Exhibit 5 (capacity at 94 percent), Exhibit 11 (cold chain at 71 percent).
Assumption stated
The second production line will not be commissioned inside eighteen months.
Initial position
Enter all three regions within eighteen months.
Response to challenge
Accepted that the eighteen month plan would launch into regions the business cannot yet serve.
Defended judgement
Staged entry, nearest region first. Position revised, reason recorded.
The same answer, with the path to it attached.
Built around lecturer realities
See what needs your judgement. See what the cohort needs next.
Akanya is designed for the work behind credible assessment: understanding what a student did with the evidence, reaching a defensible mark and deciding what to teach differently next time.
The question is not only who produced the answer. It is whether the student can use, test and defend it.
Focused marking
Review with context
See the initial answer, approved evidence, challenge response and revised judgement together, with rubric-grounded cues directing attention to what needs lecturer review.
Cohort insight
Teach from patterns
See common answers, recurring gaps and where students changed position after challenge, supported by cohort counts and reviewable examples.
Human judgement
Keep academic control
Marking suggestions remain separate from the approved mark. The lecturer reviews the evidence, edits where needed and makes the final academic decision.
Professional competence
AI may support the professional. It should not replace the professional’s judgement.
Future professionals will almost certainly work with AI. Education does not need to recreate a world without technology. It does need to ensure that graduates can evaluate evidence, recognise poor recommendations, explain decisions and remain accountable for the outcome.
- MedicineA recommendation still has to be weighed against the patient in front of you.
- EngineeringA model output still has to be checked against the conditions on site.
- AccountingA reconciliation still has to be interpreted before it is signed.
- LawAn argument still has to survive the facts of the matter.
- EducationA plan still has to meet the class that actually arrives.
- ManagementA strategy still has to be defended to the people carrying it out.
The future professional may work with AI. The qualification must still represent human competence.
Equity and access
Designed for equitable assessment.
Akanya’s core reasoning journey uses low-bandwidth written interaction on the same device used for the assessment. It does not require cameras, biometric monitoring or additional hardware.
No webcam requirement
The reasoning journey is written interaction, not observation.
No biometric monitoring
Nothing about the student's body or face is captured.
No secondary device
The assessment runs on the device already in use.
Low-bandwidth interaction
Text first, designed for constrained connections.
Mobile and desktop
The same journey adapts to the screen available.
Configurable accommodations
Time and component settings can be adjusted per student.
Institution-controlled settings
Accessibility decisions stay with the institution.
Assessment adaptation should not depend on what a student can afford.
Designed for institutional confidence
Technology supports the assessment. People remain accountable for it.
Akanya is designed for higher learning institutions that need credible evidence of student thinking without handing academic decisions to a black box.
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Lecturer control
Educators shape the assessment, approve the source material and retain final academic judgement.
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Less marking friction
Structured reasoning journeys and focused review cues help lecturers find the evidence that matters without surrendering the final mark.
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Cohort insight and reporting
Patterns across evidence use, challenge responses and revised judgement support teaching decisions, moderation and reporting.
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Reviewable evidence
A traceable record of how each student reached a conclusion supports responsible adoption and quality assurance.
The answer still matters.
The judgement behind it matters more.
Akanya helps institutions preserve the credibility of their qualifications in an environment where answers are easy to produce and judgement is harder to prove.
Think beyond the answer.