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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. There’s no fixed limit to how often you use this question type, but we recommend spacing them out to keep the activity varied and effective.
🔍 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.
🌟 Available only in the new version of LessonUp!

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, encouraging learners to reflect on the full picture.
🔍 Use sorting tasks to strengthen comprehension. Ideal for reviewing sequences, timelines, or building arguments. It also helps spot misconceptions and open up conversations.
🌟 Available only in the new version of LessonUp!

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, sparking discussions, or exploring more complex concepts. Students appreciate the freedom it gives. 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.
🌟 Available only in the new version of LessonUp!

Multiple choice question
A multiple choice question is a playful and effective way to quickly assess student knowledge.
There’s no strict limit to how often you use this question format during your lessons, but we recommend using between 5 and 10. As you know, too many multiple choice questions in a row can tire students and cause them to lose focus.
This question type is also ideal for true/false questions.
🔍 Use multiple choice questions to keep your students engaged throughout the lesson:
as a lesson starter, hinge question, or a quick review.

Poll with emojis
Use the poll as an exit-ticket or metacognitive lesson tail to check how students feel about what they have learned, how they have learned, or how they feel in general. By using the emojis students can express their emotions during a lesson or at the end to check their feeling afterwards.

Poll with text
Use the poll as a way to check opinions and preferences with your students. This can be about any topic or subject. Let students vote on their favourite topics or share their interest about anything you want. Understand your students, collect their responses, and see the results in real-time.

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 offers a number of advantages. For example, you can keep responses anonymous, or make them visible by clicking on each answer once. In that case the student's name will appear next to the answer. You can also delete inappropriate responses by dragging them to the trash bin.
🔍 Many teachers use it to activate students' prior knowledge. It has been proven that if you request prior knowledge at the beginning of a lesson, new learning material is digested better.

Open questions
An open question in LessonUp offers the best opportunity to provide unique and engaging discussions. Whether you choose for an application or insight question, students are able to provide an in-depth, comprehensive answer. 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.
🔍 An open question can create new layers of depth within a subject. It eliminates the need for students to put up their hands, allowing quieter students to participate. It can also be used as an exit-ticket plenary at the end of your lesson.
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Hotspots
Let students discover an image at their own pace. Create an image slide and add hotspots to specific parts of the image to highlight them and initiate a dialogue. Hotspots are clickable buttons that you can incorporate into your slides to support your lesson, encouraging students to effortlessly absorb various pieces of information. These hotspots can display text, images, or even videos.
☝ Students like hotspots. They stimulate their innate curiosity and are the perfect way to playfully dive into detail.

Spinner
Engage your students with a spinner! A spinner is 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 the spinner, it will randomly select whose turn it is to ask or answer a question, without having to choose.
☝ On the first day of school you could use a spinner to ask your students to introduce themselves one by one.
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