Live Quiz
Host game-show-style live MCQ sessions — students answer on their devices, with printed answer cards you scan with your phone, or both — with a live leaderboard and a full post-session analytics suite.
What it is
Live Quiz is a real-time, game-show-style game. You host a session and project it; students join with a code (or scan the QR) from their own devices and answer each MCQ against a countdown. In classrooms without student gadgets, switch to printed answer cards — each student holds up a card and you sweep the room with your phone camera; the two styles also mix in one session. Points reward correctness and — if you choose — speed, and a live leaderboard reshuffles after every question. You drive the room from a Host console (open lobby → start → reveal → leaderboard → next), and finished sessions open a deep results view with per-question, per-student and misconception breakdowns.
Who it's for
Teachers, parents and org admins host sessions; students join as players — either as guests with a name, or (if you require it) signed-in org students. With printed cards, students need nothing at all — only the host needs a signed-in phone. Live Quiz is purchase-gated, so your tenant must be entitled to host.
Key capabilities
- Join-by-code sessions (with a QR) that students enter from any device. - Printed answer cards — a no-gadget mode: students rotate an A4 card to answer and you scan the room with your phone; Both runs devices and cards together in one session. - Year-long course decks — quizzes created from a course print one named card per student that stays theirs for the whole academic year. - Countdown answering with optional speed-weighted scoring. - Host console — open lobby, start, close-now, reveal, leaderboard, next/finish, kick players, end session — plus a phone card scanner with its own remote controls. - Live leaderboard that reshuffles per question. - Full-page builder with the shared scope picker — Board → Class → Subjects, chapter ticks with topic-level narrowing, difficulty and PYQ-only filters — or pick questions manually. - Deep results — class accuracy, hardest/easiest, per-question distribution, per-student heatmap, misconception clusters. Card answers flow into every view exactly like device answers. - Insights dashboard — cross-session trends, topics to reteach, recent sessions.
Quick start
Open Sessions and click New live quiz — the full-page builder opens at /app/live-quiz/create.
Name the quiz, then pick questions: Auto from syllabus (Board → Class → Subjects, tick chapters — expand a chapter to narrow it to topics — plus difficulty / PYQ-only filters) or Pick manually.
Under How it plays, choose how students answer — Their devices, Printed cards or Both — plus seconds per question, scoring and extras.
Click Create session, then Open lobby — project the join code / QR (device modes), and print or download the card deck (PDF) for card modes.
Students join with the code, or simply hold their printed card. Click Start quiz, then drive each question: Reveal answer, optional Leaderboard, Next question — from the smartboard or from your phone’s scanner controls.
On the last question hit Finish quiz, then View full results for the analytics suite.
Printed answer cards — no student devices needed
Card mode turns Live Quiz into a gadget-free game: every student holds an A4 card with a large scannable marker, and answers by rotating it so their chosen letter — A, B, C or D, printed around the edges — is at the top. You sweep the class with your phone camera and answers tick in live. The edge letters are printed deliberately small, so neighbours can’t read a student’s choice from across the room.
Choose per session while creating: Their devices (join by code), Printed cards (no gadgets — you scan the room) or Both (devices and cards together). In card-only sessions the join code disappears — students need nothing.
The lobby’s Answer cards panel has Download card deck (PDF) — one card per page plus a cover with student instructions and scanning tips. Pick a class roster while creating to print each student’s name on their card, or skip it for a numbered quick-mode deck ("Card 1", "Card 2"…) you hand out in any order.
A quiz created from a course locks the roster to that course’s enrolled students and prints a named card per student that stays theirs for the whole academic year — the same deck works for every live quiz in the course, and new enrolments are added automatically next time you print. You can also print the deck any time from the course’s People tab (Print card deck).
Sign in on your phone and scan the QR in the lobby’s Answer cards panel (or tap Card scanner during a question). Point the camera at the class: detected cards outline amber, submitted ones turn green, and coverage chips (✓ name / card number) show who’s in — without ever revealing which option anyone chose.
A live sweep reads reliably to about 5–6 metres. For a large hall, tap Snap photo — one full-resolution photo captures everyone in range (roughly double the distance).
The scanner has its own Start quiz / Close / Reveal / Board / Next / Finish buttons, so you can run the whole show from the back of the room without walking to the smartboard.
In Both mode, a student’s device answer is never overwritten by a card scan, while card answers are last-scan-wins until the question closes — so a misread or a re-rotated card corrects itself. Card answers flow into the leaderboard, reveal counts, results and misconception views exactly like device answers.
Print on plain matte paper — glossy lamination causes glare misses. Good light on the cards matters more than a steady hand. Cards are reusable: laminate (matte) or keep them in a folder for next time.
Cards held more than ~25° off square are ignored as ambiguous, and an answer is accepted only after two consecutive identical reads — sweep slowly in halves down the middle aisle for the fastest coverage.
The sub-nav tabs
Create, host and review live quizzes, plus a cross-session Insights dashboard.
Browse and search the shared question bank and select questions into the quiz (teachers and org staff).
Bulk-import questions (CSV/Excel/PDF → AI extraction) and track them through review and approval.