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Four simple steps to verify student understanding
Students upload their assignment to Thinking Mode
Each student is moved into a full-screen, locked-down assessment environment
Our AI asks each student specific and adaptive questions about their submission
Get instant verification of what students understand about their submitted assignments
Now integrating with
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
Assessment designed to keep students thinking in the AI era
Full-screen lockdown mode ensures students demonstrate their own thinking, not AI's. Secure assessment built for the reality of the AI era.
Guided by established cognitive taxonomies, our AI adapts in real-time: asking the right question, for the right student, at the right time.
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.
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:
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:
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.
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