Four ways to ask the class, one join code
🎤 Live quiz questions
Timed multiple-choice questions open on every screen at the same moment. You see who answered what and how fast; the class sees the ranking on the board. Points add up over the course. The live quiz platform in detail.
👍 Yes/no quick poll
Ask "Is that clear?" out loud and press the poll button; the answer buttons appear on every student's screen. The count builds up live on your panel, and the result shows to everyone when you close it.
📋 Exit survey
Anonymous end-of-course feedback: a ready template with ratings, pace, clarity and two open questions, or your own questions. Results on your panel and as a CSV file.
🙂 Energy meter
Students mark how they feel on a five-step scale, anonymously, whenever they like. You see the average and the trend over the hour and call a break before the room goes flat.
The poll, the timer and the energy meter are described on the classroom polling and engagement tools page; this page is about using all of them together in place of a clicker set.
Compared with a clicker set
| ClassTogether | Clicker hardware | |
|---|---|---|
| Devices | The students' own phones, tablets or lab computers | One handset per student, plus a receiver |
| Cost | Free | Per handset, plus replacements |
| Set-up per lesson | Nonethe join code stays the same for the whole course | Hand out, register, collect |
| What the student sees | The question text, the options and the slide you are teaching | Buttons onlythe question stays on the projector |
| Question types | Multiple choice, yes/no, rating, free text | Multiple choice, numeric |
| Anonymous questions | Survey and energy meter | Depends on the system |
| Results | Live on your panel; survey as CSV | In the vendor's software |
| Class size | No limit | As many handsets as you own |
Clicker systems differ; the right column describes the usual handset-and-receiver set. If you are replacing a software tool instead, the comparison with Kahoot, Mentimeter and Wooclap is dated and factual.
How it runs in a lesson
Students join once
At the start of the course, students type the 6-character code from the board or scan the QR code and enter a name. The code does not change for the rest of the course, so there is no joining ritual in later lessons.
You ask, they answer
Start a quiz question, open a yes/no poll or launch the survey from your panel. The question appears on every student's screen on top of the slide they are following; when it closes, the slide comes back by itself.
You see the result at once
Quiz answers and poll counts build up on your panel as they arrive. The projector shows the poll result when you close it and the quiz ranking after each question; the survey totals and the energy trend stay on your screen.
Where it fits
A classroom of thirty
A classroom response system for the daily check: a quick poll after a hard explanation, a five-question quiz at the end, an exit ticket survey on the last day. Nothing to hand out or collect.
A lecture hall of three hundred
No participant cap and no new code per lecture. The question is on every phone, so the back rows answer the same question as the front row, with network lag taken out of the timing.
Training rooms and workshops
For a trainer it doubles as an audience response system: the course deck on every laptop, a scored quiz between modules, and an anonymous end-of-course survey exported as CSV for the training report.
Computer labs
Students answer from the machine in front of them, on the same page that shows the slides and the exercise hints. Your panel shows how many hints each student has taken, which is a response in itself.
The response system is one part of the lesson, not a separate tool: the same page shows the interactive slides you are teaching, and the projector board follows along without a cable.
Frequently asked questions
Does it replace clicker hardware?
Yes. Students answer from their own phones, tablets or the lab computers in a browser. There is nothing to buy, charge, hand out or collect, and nothing to install.
Can I see who answered what?
In the live quiz and the yes/no poll, yes: they are part of the lesson and the answers sit next to the student's name on your panel. The exit survey and the energy meter are anonymous; there you see only the totals.
Do students need an account or an app?
No. They type the join code from the board, enter a name and they are in. No e-mail address, no password, no app store.
How many students can respond at once?
We have not set a limit. A class of 30 or a lecture hall of 300 can answer the same question, and the free plan does not count participants.
Which question types are there?
Timed multiple-choice questions in the quiz, a yes/no quick poll, a five-step energy meter, and rating, single-choice, yes/no and free-text questions in the exit survey. There is no word cloud and no open-ended question wall.