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Discover how interactive features and components encourage engagement and participation in the classroom, and how they help you reach and include every student. Easily add a word cloud, quiz, hotspot or spinner to your lesson material: keeping only one screen open.

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NEW! Fill in the blanks

This interactive slide is ideal for testing student recall in a focused and engaging way. You can use it to check if students remember keywords, match definitions, or identify accurate information within a broader context.

🔍 Use ‘Fill in the blanks’ to test recall of facts, terms, or locations: relevant for any subject. You can also add extra (incorrect) words to challenge your students' critical thinking.

NEW! Sorting

Sorting is a versatile way to check deeper understanding. You can use it to explore processes, rank items by importance, or support students in structuring an argument. Unlike a set of separate quizzes, this question type presents everything in one slide.

🔍 Use sorting tasks to strengthen comprehension. Ideal for reviewing sequences, timelines, or building arguments. It also helps spot misconceptions and open up conversations.

NEW! Answer by category

Answer by category encourages students to group ideas, thoughts, or concepts into specific categories/columns. It is ideal for organising information or sparking discussions. You can also choose to design it with correct or incorrect answers, depending on your learning objective.

🔍 Use answer by category to brainstorm prior knowledge, explore bigger concepts, or collect individual opinions. It is engaging, flexible, and can supports creative thinking.

Multiple choice question

A multiple choice question is a playful and effective way to quickly assess knowledge, and keep your students engaged throughout your lesson.

🔍 Use multiple choice questions as a lesson starter, hinge question, or a quick review.

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Poll with emojis

Use the poll as an exit ticket or as a metacognitive activity at the end of a lesson. It’s a quick way to check how students feel about what they have learned, how they learned it, or even how they are feeling in general.

🔍 By responding with emojis, students can express their emotions in a visual way. You can use the poll during the lesson to gauge understanding, or at the end to capture their feelings.

Poll with text

Use the poll to check opinions and preferences with your students. It works with any topic or subject area. You might ask them to vote on favourite themes, choose between lesson options, or share personal interests.

🔍 Collect responses instantly and display the results in real time. This helps you understand your students better and makes them feel included in the lesson.

True / False

Testing the knowledge of your students with true/false questions is a classic approach to assess knowledge and validate learnings throughout any lesson.

🔍 Make statements that need have a clear true or false answer or use alternatives, like fact or fiction.

Word cloud

The word cloud in LessonUp is a particularly loved interactive feature. It stimulates creative thinking and gives you full control. You can choose to keep responses anonymous or not, and it's easy to delete responses if needed.

🔍 Many teachers use it to activate students' prior knowledge. It has been proven that if you test prior knowledge at the beginning of a lesson, new learning material is digested better.

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Open questions

An open question in LessonUp offers the best opportunity to start unique and engaging discussions. During an online class, the answers are displayed as cards, and you are fully in control: you can choose to display and discuss the answers, or not.

🔍 An open question can create new layers of depth within a subject. It eliminates the need for students to put up their hands, lowering the barrier for quieter students to participate.

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Hotspots

Let students discover an image or written information at their own pace. Hotspots are clickable buttons that you can incorporate into your slides to support your lesson, encouraging students to effortlessly absorb information.

☝ Create an image slide and add hotspots to specific parts of the image to highlight them and reveal information. They stimulate curiosity and are the perfect way to dive into detail.

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Spinner

Engage your students with a spinner! It's an exciting addition to your lesson. If you set up a classroom in LessonUp, your students’ names will appear within the spinner wheel. Once you activate it, it will randomly select whose turn it is to ask or answer a question.

☝ On the first day of school you could use a spinner to ask your students to introduce themselves one by one.

I started using quizzes, polls, and open questions to get them involved. These tools gave them a way to interact without feeling the pressure of speaking out loud. For a lot of the quieter students this was a game-changer.

Richard Human

Teacher, Coach and Mentor