Boost classroom engagement by 300%! We are thrilled to launch "Word Cloud", a brand-new live classroom activity that lets teachers gather student ideas instantly and transform them into a beautiful, live-updating visual playground.
✨ What makes Word Cloud amazing for Teachers:
- 🎨 Animated, Center-Weighted Cloud: Popular words automatically grow larger in the center of the screen. Powered by custom smooth animations, new answers pop onto the screen beautifully to keep students hooked.
- 🔍 "Who Answered" Tracking: Choose between two access modes:
- PUBLIC Mode: Instant, anonymous access. Best for quick icebreakers.
- STUDENTS_ONLY Mode: Requires students to select their profile from the class roster. For this mode, teachers can hover or tap on any word to see exactly which students submitted that answer!
- 🎛️ Two Beautiful Layout Views: Toggle seamlessly between "Classic Cloud" (fluid, center-weighted text) and "Ranked Bars" (horizontal bar chart sorted by frequency) with a single click.
- 🔄 4-Second Near Real-Time Polling: No need to manually refresh! The teacher’s view auto-polls and updates every 4 seconds so you can focus entirely on leading the class.
🚀 The Toolbar Refresh (Footer Redesign) To make room for our expanding toolkit, we’ve rearranged the bottom toolbar into 4 clean, drop-up category folders. No more cluttered screens—everything you need is neatly grouped:
- 📝 Attendance: Roll Call / Attendance QR Code
- 🎯 Pickers: Wheel of Names / Card Picker / Student Picker
- ⏱️ Tools: Stopwatch / Noisy Detector
- 🚀 Activities: Word Cloud (Find our brand new feature right here!)
📱 Sleek Student Experience:
- Simply scan the QR code to join and type answers from any phone or browser.
- Seamless Button States: No more annoying success alerts popping up! The submit button seamlessly transforms into a "Submitting..." spinner and triggers a green "Submitted" checkmark right on the button itself upon success.
- Teachers can restrict submissions to 1 answer per browser or open it up for unlimited entries for maximum brainstorming output!