Reading the room

Sometimes you don't need a test — you need to know, right now, what the class is thinking. Activities are built for that moment: students join by code, QR, or link, with no accounts and nothing to install.

The fast checks

• Keyword collector — "write every word you associate with photosynthesis." Perfect for activating prior knowledge at the start of a topic, or seeing what stuck at the end.
• Anonymous voting — honest signals on questions students won't answer with their name attached: "how confident do you feel about tomorrow's test?" Individual choices stay anonymous.
• Quiz as exit ticket — a few questions in the last five minutes. Results can save to student records when the activity expires, and automatic grading can add the score as a signal on each student's record.

Save it or don't

Saving to records is a checkbox, not a default you fight. Skip it when you just want to see the room; keep it when the signal belongs in the student's history — where it also becomes context the assessment generator can build on later.

After the activity

When an activity expires, TeachersFlow can generate an AI note per student or team — a short summary of how they did. Review these before trusting them anywhere; they're a starting point for your own notes, not a replacement.

When to reach for which

The full type-by-type guide — quiz, questionnaire, team project, voting, keyword collector — is in Activity types.