Changing education in the age of AI.
Students can copy and paste their way through almost any quiz. Verela was built to solve this.
No account needed. The dashboard below is live, so click around.
Why cramming fails
Taught correctly
Grade spread
Check in with
Built on LTI 1.3. Opens inside the course and sends grades back.
Students learn by teaching.
Explaining an idea to someone else is one of the most reliable ways to learn it. Researchers call this the protégé effect. Verela turns it into a graded assignment for any course reading.
Teach Jot the reading
The student explains the reading to Jot in a chat. Jot asks questions like a curious classmate, but never gives away what the reading says.
memory has 3 parts, encoding storage and retrieval. encoding is getting info in, storage is keeping it, retrieval is getting it back out
Got it, three stages. If I forget something on a test, how would I know which stage broke?
if you never paid attention then it never got encoded
Jot takes the quiz
Jot answers a short quiz using only what it was taught. If the student didn't teach something, or taught it wrong, Jot's answers show it.
Jot's quiz
Scored 50% on what it was taught- Encoding, storage, retrieval
If you never paid attention, it was never encoded.
Correct - The forgetting curve
It keeps dropping that fast unless you review.
Partly - The spacing effect
You can do it all in one night.
Wrong - Retrieval practice
Testing yourself makes memory stronger than rereading.
Correct - Learning by teaching
I wasn't taught this.
Not taught
The student explains it live
The student answers a few timed questions without notes, or takes a short oral exam where Jot asks a follow-up after each answer.
In your own words, what does the spacing effect say about how to schedule your study time?
that you should take breaks while studying so you dont burn out
Still the same mix-up. Reread "Spacing your practice."
The grade goes to your gradebook
It combines Jot's quiz and the live check, and professors choose how much the live check counts.
Why cramming fails
Sent to the gradebook| Student | Jot's quiz | Live check | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maya R. | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| Leah W. | 90% | 83% | 88% |
| Priya S. | 70% | 83% | 74% |
| Jordan T. | 50% | 50% | 50% |
Readings get assigned. What gets learned?
Professors walk into class with questions a reading quiz can't answer.
- Did they actually do the reading?
- Which idea lost the class?
- Who needs a check-in?
- Could they explain it without notes?
- What do I cover on Tuesday?
- Do these grades predict the exam?
Set up in minutes. Fits your LMS and your policies.
Readings set up in minutes
Paste a reading or upload a PDF. Verela drafts the key concepts and three versions of each question for you to review, and you can run a grading check with simulated students first.
A briefing before class
The main thing to address, the concepts students missed, and a ten-minute warm-up with a poll. Also sent by email the evening before.
Analytics you can ask
Grades across every reading, with a question box: ask "who is below 60%?" and get an answer from the numbers.
Inside your LMS
Built on LTI 1.3 for Canvas, Moodle, D2L Brightspace and Blackboard Learn. Students open it from the course and grades go back to the gradebook.
Private by default
Student work is never used to train AI models, and student names are never sent to the AI. Schools set retention, see an access log, and can export or delete any student's data.
Fair for every student
Extra time or paste for students who need it. Jot only knows what the student taught it, and signs of bots are flagged but never change a grade on their own.
Also included: learning-outcome reports with CSV for accreditation, an exam check that shows whether Verela grades predict your exam scores, question quality stats, and a shared library with colleagues.
Try Verela now
You get your own private sandbox with a sample psychology class. Nothing you type is shared, and the sandbox is deleted after 24 hours.
As a student
Teach Jot a sample reading, watch it take the quiz, then try the live questions yourself.
As a professor
Open the class dashboard, the misconceptions, the pre-class briefing and the reading setup.
Now inviting pilot courses
If you teach a course with assigned readings, or support people who do, we'd like to hear from you. Tell us about your course and your LMS.