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Thinking on assessment,
integrity, and the exam lifecycle.

Notes from the team building Tomax: on why detection stopped working, what verifying understanding actually looks like, and how institutions run assessment at scale.

5 min read

January 22, 2026

Why AI Broke Plagiarism Detection (and What Comes Next)

For two decades, similarity scores were the industry's answer to cheating. Generative AI didn't weaken that answer. It removed the question it was built to solve.

עמית זקס

עמית זקס

מייסד שותף ומנכ"ל

6 min read

March 10, 2026

Inside Smart Defense: How We Verify Understanding, Not Just Catch Cheating

A defense step doesn't replace the exam or add a grading pass. It adds one short, human exchange, and produces the one thing a probability score never could: evidence.

גיי סינטר

גיי סינטר

מנהל טכנולוגי ראשי

4 min read

April 28, 2026

The Feedback Loop Most Institutions Skip

A grade returned three weeks later is a verdict. The same comment returned on Thursday is teaching. Here's why formative assessment keeps losing to setup cost, and what fixes it.

תומר גנות

תומר גנות

מנהל מחלקת הפרויקטים

5 min read

June 16, 2026

One Platform, Two Modalities: Why Printed Exams Aren't Going Anywhere

The real split isn't online versus paper. It's institutions running both on two disconnected systems, with two audit trails, instead of one record that doesn't care which modality a given exam uses.

תומר כהן

תומר כהן

מייסד שותף ומנכ"ל

5 min read

July 21, 2026

What Actually Makes an Institution-Wide Rollout Succeed

The platform is rarely the risk in an implementation. The exam calendar that can't pause for it is. Here's how we sequence onboarding so go-live never collides with a live exam cycle.

גל סיון

גל סיון

מנהל קליטה ומנהל פרויקטים

6 min read

August 15, 2026

Accessibility and Inclusivity in Digital Assessment

Accessibility in online assessment isn't a compliance checkbox. It's whether a test-taker can actually show what they know. Here's how we build that into the assessment lifecycle.

יוחאי וייסבלט

יוחאי וייסבלט

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