Assess oral work

Grade now, complete later: how to finish your orals with a clear head

Published June 11, 2026 · Lire en français

In short — During an oral, there's rarely time to write everything down. With SnapJury, you finalize fast and complete the assessment later: identify the student after the exam, finish a grade, refine a comment. Drafts and partial assessments stay visible and editable, gathered in one glance. Grade on your iPhone in the room, pick it back up on Mac or iPad in the evening, thanks to iCloud.

Live doesn't wait — and that's fine

An oral exam has no pause button. One student finishes, the next is already at the door, and you have to listen, observe, keep the thread. Under those conditions, you can't possibly tidy everything up in real time: a grade left hanging, a criterion you haven't settled, a comment you'd have liked to flesh out… and sometimes you don't even know yet who just performed — a mock exam, a class you're meeting for the first time, a running order shuffled at the last minute.

Most of us "repair" all that in the evening, from memory, on a corner of the kitchen table. That's exactly what SnapJury wants to spare you: what you capture live is captured for good, and whatever is missing can be completed later, with a clear head. Nothing gets lost, everything turns back up.

Finalize fast, guilt-free

With SnapJury, finalizing an oral doesn't mean "everything is perfect". It means: the performance is in the box. Your strong points and areas to improve, the timer, your notes — all recorded, dated, where they belong.

The rest — completing the assessment, adjusting a score, polishing the comment — can wait an hour, or wait until tonight. The assessment stays fully editable: finalizing locks nothing, and you always stay in control. So you can keep up with the pace of the class without sacrificing your attention or the quality of your marking.

💡 The right reflex in class: capture the essentials during the oral, settle the details afterward. Your grade will only be fairer for it — decided calmly, not under pressure.

Identify the student after the exam

It's one of those small reliefs that changes everything: you can finalize an oral without identifying the student. The performance is recorded as is, anonymous for now, and you identify the student after the exam, whenever you have a minute — between two candidates, at the break, or in the evening.

In practice, that's precious in plenty of situations:

• a mock oral with a class you don't know yet;
• a panel or jury where candidates file through and the list isn't in front of you;
• a running order that changes at the last minute;
• or simply not wanting to break the rhythm to hunt for a name.

An unidentified oral doesn't vanish into limbo: it stays visible, clearly flagged, waiting for you to reunite it with its owner.

Drafts, partials, unidentified: all in one place

The big anxiety of marking in fits and starts: "did I forget anything?" SnapJury answers it simply: everything left to do shows up at a glance.

• a draft evaluation you started and set aside? It's right there, ready to resume;
• a partial assessment — some criteria scored, others pending? It's flagged as such;
• an unidentified oral? It's quietly waiting for its student.

The dashboard also shows you who still needs to be assessed: no need to tick off a paper list to know where you stand. You open the app, you see what's left, you deal with it — and the queue empties out.

In the evening, on a big screen

Completing a grade on a phone between two doors gets you by. But for the real follow-up — rereading, adjusting, writing — nothing beats a big screen.

SnapJury syncs through iCloud across all your Apple devices: what you captured on your iPhone in the room is waiting for you on Mac or iPad in the evening, exactly in the state you left it. You find your drafts and your partials, you complete them at the keyboard, comfortably — and everything stays on your own devices, in your private iCloud.

(If your classes aren't in the app yet, start by importing your students: identifying an oral after the fact then takes about two seconds.)

The feedback gets sharper when you have time

The comment scribbled in the heat of the moment is rarely the one you want to hand to the student. With a clear head, you reread your pluses and minuses, you go back over your summary, you complete it, you rephrase it. And if you use a grading rubric, it's the perfect time to settle the criteria left pending, with the scale right in front of you.

Here again, SnapJury stays a copilot: it keeps a faithful record of what happened in class and puts it all back in front of you — and you decide the final grade and the right words.

Wrap-up

Live doesn't wait, but it doesn't force you to do everything at once either. With SnapJury, you capture during the oral, you finalize fast, and you complete whenever you want: student identified after the exam, drafts and partials gathered in one place, follow-up on a big screen in the evening. Nothing gets lost, everything turns back up. (New to the app? Start with grading an oral exam in 3 minutes.)

Frequently asked questions

Can I finalize an oral without identifying the student?

Yes. With SnapJury, you can finalize an oral without saying who just performed, then identify the student after the exam, whenever you have a minute. The assessment stays visible and nothing is lost.

What happens to an incomplete assessment in SnapJury?

It stays visible and editable. Drafts, partial assessments and unidentified orals form a to-complete queue you can spot at a glance, until everything is in order.

Can I change a grade after finalizing the oral?

Yes. In SnapJury, everything stays editable: the grade, the criteria, the comment, the student it's attached to. Finalizing in class doesn't lock anything — you always stay in control.

Can I grade on iPhone and pick it back up on Mac or iPad?

Yes. SnapJury syncs through iCloud across iPhone, iPad and Mac: grade in the room on your iPhone, then pick your assessments back up on a bigger screen in the evening, exactly where you left them.