01Instructor
You create the assignment.
Five minutes. Pick the workflow, drop in the source material, pick the rubric criteria. Done.
Fall 2026 Faculty Pilot
The first 20 faculty bringing oral defense into Fall 2026.
A small cohort of instructors will use Rocketproof to run oral defenses on their full sections this fall.
Founder office hours, white-glove setup, and free use through December 15. Applications close Friday, July 31, 2026.
Why this matters now
Every faculty member you know has had the same conversation.
A student turned in something that didn't sound like them. There was no good move.
Honor pledges are a vibe, not a check. AI-detection tools are a coin flip. Banning ChatGPT is a polite fiction. The traditional ways to verify that a student actually understands their own work have either stopped working or never scaled to a 90-person section.
Rocketproof gives faculty a way to run structured, recorded oral defenses on a full section without adding hours of grading per assignment. The platform builds a question plan from the student's own submission, runs the session, transcribes it, scores it against your rubric, and hands you a review surface where every score is one click from the evidence behind it.
What's included
What you get, what we ask.
What you get
- Full Rocketproof access for one course section, June 2026 – December 2026.
- Founder-led onboarding call (45 min) before your syllabus is locked.
- Direct line to engineering for any issue you hit.
- Free use through Dec 15 — no charge during the pilot window.
- Optional: brand-aligned LMS announcement copy you can give your students.
What we ask
- Use Rocketproof for at least one graded assignment in your fall course.
- A 30-minute mid-semester check-in call.
- Permission to quote one observation in a case study (you review before publication).
- A one-page reflection at semester end (we send the template).
- Optional: introduce us to your department chair if it goes well.
How it works in your course
From assignment to graded defense, in three views.
Three real product views, in order, with no audio — scroll through them like a silent demo reel.
02Student
Your students complete the defense.
They submit their paper or presentation, then sit for a recorded oral session where Rocketproof asks targeted questions grounded in their own submission.
03Instructor
You review with the evidence in front of you.
Transcript, recording, rubric scores, integrity flags, and the AI’s first-pass analysis — all in one panel. Adjust, comment, release.
Why Rocketproof?
The end-to-end walkthrough.
From the question plan Rocketproof builds, through a recorded session, to the faculty review surface where the rubric gets scored.
Who this is for
Faculty teaching writing- or argument-heavy courses.
Sections of 15 or more. Composition. Philosophy. Business ethics. Education. Literature. History. Political science. Any course where you used to trust the essay and don't anymore.
Not a fit if: your course is fully asynchronous with no synchronous expectations; you're looking for an AI-detection / plagiarism tool (Rocketproof is the opposite approach); or you need to deploy across an entire department this fall — let's talk for Spring 2027 instead.
Pilot FAQ
Five questions, all answerable today.
Does this replace my essays?
No. Most pilot faculty pair a written submission with a Rocketproof oral defense of that submission. The writing still happens. The verification is new.
Do students need to install anything?
No. Browser-based, works in Chrome, Safari, and Firefox. They need a webcam and a mic.
Does it work with Canvas / Blackboard / Moodle / D2L?
Yes. LTI 1.3 with grade passback out of the box.
How long is a typical session?
Twelve to twenty-two minutes depending on the workflow you choose. You can cap session length per assignment.
What about students with accommodations?
Built in. Time extensions, audio-only mode, typed response, and pacing accommodations are configurable per student.
Apply
Four minutes. Twenty seats.
We review applications within three business days. Applications close Friday, July 31, 2026.