HiEd.ai: AI-powered voice conversations for teaching and assessment

The Power of Conversation

AI-powered voice conversations that transform how students learn and educators teach

HIED.AI

The Evidence So Far

Figures from live use, and from an anonymous survey of the students who were assessed on it.

Now used by universities across the UK and Ireland, and by schools, not-for-profit organisations and emergency-service training teams.

140

final-year students assessed

A summative assessed conversation that counted toward their degree

Ulster University, December 2025

78%

preferred it to a recorded presentation

77% preferred it to a formal exam and 68% to a written assignment

Student survey, January 2026

1st

for building practice skills

43% ranked it first of four methods, ahead of multiple-choice tests (39%) and written assignments (4%)

Student survey, January 2026

1,500+

voice conversations on the platform

99% call success rate

Platform call records, August 2026

Survey: anonymous, 69 responses (49% of the cohort), collected before students received their results.

“I enjoyed marking the conversations and I can't say I have enjoyed marking more than a couple of essays in recent years due to students' use of AI.”

Patricia Burns, Lecturer in Social Work, Ulster UniversityMarked the assessed conversations

Winner

AI in Education Awards 2026, presented at the 6th National Conference on Generative AI in Education, Belfast