Ready to kick-start classroom interaction?
Discover how interactive features and slides encourage engagement and 100% participation in the classroom, and how they help you reach and include every student. Easily add a quiz, word cloud, or open question slide to your regular lesson: with only one screen open.
100% engagement
with Interactive slides, compared to 70–80% engagement without them.
Prep less, no stress
Use ready-made content or add interactive slides to your regular lesson.
Insights into your students' progress
Gain real-time insights into each learner's participation and understanding.
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 interactive slide to easily 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! Word cloud with categories
The type of interactive slide 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 goal/s.
🔍 Use word cloud with categories to map out prior knowledge, explore bigger concepts, or collect individual opinions. It is engaging, flexible, and can supports creative thinking.
Drag and drop
Drag-and-drop activities turn learning into a hands-on experience. By moving items physically, students strengthen understanding while having fun. Teachers can quickly create engaging activities, and students get immediate feedback on their answers.
🔍 Drag and drop is popular in subjects like biology for diagram labelling, but it can be used in any subject where students need to connect visuals to concepts.
Multiple choice
Multiple-choice questions and quizzes are a playful and effective way to quickly assess knowledge, spot misconceptions, and keep your students engaged and motivated throughout your lesson.
🔍 Use multiple choice as a hinge question, for retrieval practice, or just a quick review.
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, 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.
Open question
A digital open question offers a great way to start unique and engaging discussions. Student answers appear as cards on the interactive whiteboard, giving you full control. You can choose whether to display and discuss them during the lesson or not.
🔍 Open questions add depth to a subject and lower the barrier for participation, letting quieter or less confident students contribute. They can also be used as an exit ticket at the end of your lesson to stimulate reflection.
Poll with emojis
Use this type of poll as an exit ticket or a reflective activity at the end of a lesson. It’s a quick way to check how students feel about what they’ve learned, how they learned it, or their overall mood.
🔍 By responding with emojis, students can express their emotions visually in a low-key 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 options, or share personal interests.
🔍 Collect responses instantly and display the results in real time. Once all students have answered, the results appear as percentages. It allows learners to respond anonymously, so everyone can take part.
True / False
Testing the knowledge of your students with true/false questions is a classic approach to assess knowledge and validate learnings instantly, throughout any lesson.
🔍 Make statements that need have a clear true or false answer or use alternatives, like fact or fiction.
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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 more 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.
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 appear within the spinner wheel, and once activated, it randomly selects whose turn it is to answer a question. The spinner is also perfect for carrying out a formative assessment: inserted questions are picked randomly, making retrieval practice both unpredictable and fair.
☝ On the first day of school you could use a spinner to ask your students to introduce themselves one by one.
Testimonials: Real teachers who use LessonUp
Encouraging quiet students to participate at Belfast MET
How LessonUp improved participation at Garibaldi School
How Cerys Walker engages students in her lessons at Turner Schools
Personalising learning to support young people with autism
Transforming education globally: Richard Human’s journey
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How Anna Curtis inspires interactive teaching at Colchester Institute
