01 · Ground
Lecturer-approved evidence
The lecturer reviews the source material and decides what may inform the assessment.
Guided demo
Experience the reasoning journey.
Work through a fictional Marketing case, respond to a source-grounded challenge and see how the complete journey reaches lecturer review. No account or upload needed.
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Guided student demo
Try a 60-second student challenge.
Make the evidence choice, commit to a position and see how structured challenge turns a final answer into reviewable reasoning. Scripted example; no sign in or upload needed.
Illustrative assessment journey
MKT 704 · Three hour examinationStep 1 of 4
Ground in evidence
Sefako Rivers Beverages is a mid sized producer of chilled juices. The board has asked for a recommendation on entering three neighbouring regional markets within eighteen months. Extracts from the case appear below.
Mark two or three blocks as decisive to your recommendation.
0 of 3 selected.
Select at least two evidence blocks to continue.
Designed with African higher learning contexts in view.
Controlled pilot workspace. Lecturer-approved sources and no automatic release of marks.
Human academic judgement remains final.
Inside the working prototype
See the reasoning journey become reviewable.
These screens show the shape of the experience without exposing the intervention logic behind it: lecturer-controlled evidence, a visible student response and one traceable journey for academic review.
Not one generic challenge
Different outcomes need different forms of reasoning friction.
Akanya can make different reasoning capabilities visible without rewarding change for its own sake. A well-supported defence can be as valuable as a revision.
- Test an assumption
- Reconcile conflicting evidence
- Qualify a claim
- Revisit a calculation
- Defend a judgement
02 · Adapt
A visible reasoning decision
The student must identify whether the position is being defended, modified, qualified or replaced, then explain why.
03 · Record
One continuous reasoning journey
The initial response, evidence choice, challenge response and final position remain connected.
04 · Review
Better evidence for academic judgement
The lecturer reviews what changed, what held and which evidence supported the final conclusion.
Screens from a controlled pilot environment using an illustrative assessment and example participant data. They do not represent institutional adoption or live student records.
What happens next
A clear route from interest to a controlled test.
No procurement commitment is required to explore the pilot. Access is reviewed so that each test has an appropriate academic use case and support path.
- 01
Request pilot access
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- 02
Configure and test
Use an illustrative case or approved course material in the controlled lecturer environment.
- 03
Run a controlled cohort
Invite a small group, review their reasoning journeys and decide whether the approach fits.
Choose the route that fits.
Lecturers can test the guided challenge immediately. Departmental and institutional leaders can request a structured conversation through the existing access process.
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Assessment builder
Akanya does not add hours to an assessment.
It helps lecturers decide how the existing assessment time should be used.
Change the settings below and watch the proposed structure update. This is a bounded preview built for the public site, using predefined configuration outcomes.
Pilot configuration preview
Configure
Proposed structure
Updates liveOriginal assessment windowthree hours
18m
162m
ReasoningConventional response
- Estimated reasoning time
- 18 minutes
- Traditional response time
- 162 minutes
- Judgement touchpoints
- 2
- Components in journey
- 7
Your three hours assessment remains within the original assessment window. The time is redistributed, not extended.
Recommended reasoning components
- Source evidence
- Evidence selection
- Analysis
- Initial position
- Targeted challenge
- Revision
- Final judgement
Suggested use case: A examination that ends in a recommendation the student must defend.
Rationale: An examination carries weight, so the reasoning journey is worth protecting inside the existing window. Judgement outcomes need a defended conclusion, not only a correct one.
Illustrative preview. Live assessment logic and institutional configuration are developed within controlled pilot environments.
For lecturers
The lecturer remains in control.
Akanya does not replace academic judgement. It gives lecturers better evidence on which to apply it.
Add sources, set requirements, then review and approve the draft.
Prepare an assessmentMKT 704 · Illustrative draft
Source material
Case document: sefako-rivers-case.pdf · 23 pages
Permitted resources: Case only
Uploads happen inside the lecturer environment, never on this public site.
Question and outcome
Question: Recommend a regional expansion approach to the board.
Learning outcome: Judgement
Reasoning components
- Source evidence
- Evidence selection
- Initial position
- Targeted challenge
- Revision
- Final judgement
Lecturer review and approval
Set question types, marks and duration. Review the source-grounded draft, edit the questions and approve the paper before testing or inviting participants.
Illustrative lecturer view. Final pilot features may vary.
Pilot feature