8.61.Kahoot!Top pick
Live quiz games that put the whole class on their phones or laptops, with a free plan for basic quizzes.
8.52.Sparx Maths
Personalised weekly maths homework for UK secondary schools, with bookwork checks, support videos and reports on who has finished.
8.53.Wayground
The quiz platform formerly called Quizizz, now with presentations, video questions, AI tools and 25+ accommodations for live or self-paced work.
8.34.Edpuzzle
Turns YouTube clips and your own videos into lessons with embedded questions, and shows which students watched and how they answered.
8.35.IXL
Skill-by-skill practice in math, ELA, science, social studies and Spanish, with a diagnostic and detailed analytics for K-12 schools.
8.36.Seneca
Free UK revision and homework platform for KS2 to A Level, with self-marking courses and paid school plans that add AI-marked exam questions.
8.27.Additio App
Teacher gradebook and planner with rubrics and skills-based grading, on web, iOS and Android, for a low yearly fee.
8.28.Gradescope
Mark scanned paper exams and uploaded homework question by question with shared rubrics, from Turnitin. Free Basic plan, quoted Institutional plan.
8.29.Nearpod
Interactive lessons with polls, quizzes, drawing and games built into the slides, run live or student-paced, from Renaissance.
8.110.Blooket
Quiz review wrapped in arcade-style game modes, popular with upper primary and lower secondary students.
8.011.Gimkit
Quiz games where students earn in-game cash for correct answers and spend it on upgrades, with a low-cost Pro plan and no ads.
8.012.Pear Deck
Adds questions, polls and drawing slides to Google Slides or PowerPoint lessons so every student answers on their own device.
7.913.Curipod
Teacher-led live lessons where students write, get instant AI feedback against a rubric and revise in the same class period, with no student accounts.
7.814.Formative
Live assignments where teachers watch each student's answers, drawings and shown working appear in real time, and give feedback as they go.
7.815.Plickers
Multiple-choice checks where students hold up printed cards and the teacher scans the room with a phone, so no student devices are needed.
7.716.Quizlet
Flashcard study sets with Learn, Test and the team game Quizlet Live, strong for vocabulary but with ads and paywalls on the free plan.
7.717.Wooclap
A live polling and question tool with over 20 question types, used mostly in universities, and free for school teachers in France and Belgium.
7.618.Mentimeter
Live polls, word clouds, Q&A and quiz slides that students answer anonymously from a browser, built for lectures and presentations.
7.519.Turnitin
Similarity checking and AI writing detection for essays, plus online marking tools. Strong on matching text, with an AI score that needs care.
7.420.Socrative
Quick quizzes, polls and exit tickets that grade themselves and show results per question as students answer.