Frequently asked questions

Askroom Live is a free web tool for live classroom assessment, for classes from kindergarten to grade 12. A teacher builds an assessment, test, poll, drawing task or worksheet, shares a join code, and sees every student's answer on their own screen as it is given.

Yes. Askroom Live is free for teachers and students. There are no ads, and student answers are never sold or shared.

Yes. Set an assessment for a junior class and students see big friendly buttons and a playful look. Questions can be read aloud, and children can answer by drawing, speaking, or tapping a picture, so reading and typing are never a barrier. Older students get a calmer look, a formula keyboard for maths and science, reading passages and exam mode.

No. Askroom Live does not use AI to write questions, mark answers or give feedback. Feedback comes from the teacher and from the explanations the teacher writes.

Askroom Live is powered by RealHatApps.

No. Students open the site in any browser, type the join code and their name, and they are in. There is nothing to install and no student account.

The teacher shows a six-character join code, a QR code and a link. Students can type the code at askroomlive.com, scan the QR code, or open the link.

Any phone, tablet, Chromebook or laptop with a modern web browser. The student screen adapts to the size of the device.

Up-to-date Chrome, Edge, Safari and Firefox, on phones, tablets, Chromebooks and computers.

The teacher chooses, from 30 minutes up to 30 days. After that, new students cannot join, but students already inside can keep working until the teacher ends the session.

Yes. A student who joins after you start goes straight to the current question, or to the start of a self-paced test.

A normal class or year group works well. Sessions with a hundred students answering at the same time have been tested.

Many kinds: multiple choice, multi-select, true or false, fill in the blank, numeric answer, put in order, match the following, drag into groups, maths and science answers with a formula keyboard, paragraph, poll, word cloud, brainstorm list, whiteboard drawing, spoken answer, content slides, and PDF worksheets that students write on.

Yes. Maths answers use a built-in formula keyboard with three tabs. The Maths tab has fractions, powers, roots, sums, integrals and inequality signs. The Greek tab has letters used in physics such as lambda, omega, theta and delta. The Science tab has chemical formulas, reaction arrows, charges, degrees, units, vectors and standard form. It works for every grade from primary arithmetic to senior science.

Yes. A drawing question gives each student a whiteboard with a pen in several colours and thicknesses, a highlighter, an eraser, typed text, select and move, undo and redo. It can start blank or on top of a picture such as a diagram. The teacher sees every whiteboard live, can write on any of them in red, and can open a class vote on the drawings without showing names.

Yes. Upload a PDF and every page becomes a page students write on with a pen, a highlighter and typed text. The teacher watches each student's pages fill in live and can write on them in red.

Yes. Templates are ready-made lesson formats such as an exit ticket, a warm-up, a quick check, draw and vote, maths with working, a reading check and an end-of-unit test. Each one has an example in every question, written for the age group you choose, which you replace with your own content.

Yes. Press "Go live" again on the same assessment whenever you like. Each session gets its own join code and its own report.

In a teacher-paced session everyone sees the same question and only the teacher moves to the next one, which suits lessons and discussion. In a self-paced session each student moves through the questions alone and submits at the end, which suits tests and homework.

Choice, number, order, match, drag-and-drop, fill-in-the-blank and maths answers are marked automatically. Paragraphs, drawings, spoken answers and worksheets are marked by the teacher, during the session or afterwards in the report.

Numeric maths answers are compared by value, so one half, 0.5 and a typed fraction all count as the same answer. Formulas and equations are compared as written after spacing is tidied, and the teacher lists every accepted form. Students can show working on extra lines, and only the last line is marked while the teacher sees the working.

Yes. From the live screen a teacher can open any student's answer, give a mark, draw on a drawing or worksheet, and leave a note, without ending the session.

A rubric is a short list of what a good answer should have, with a level for each point. It is optional. Add one to any written, drawn or spoken question and students see the points as a checklist while they work. You mark by tapping a level for each point, and you can hand the answer back so the student can improve it. Ready-made rubrics cover any subject, young children, maths, science, reading and writing.

Exam mode opens the test in full screen, blocks copy, paste and right-click, shuffles questions and options, and records every time a student leaves the test page and for how long. It cannot see a second device or a phone camera, so the record is a starting point for a conversation rather than proof.

Yes. Every session has a report that can be printed and exported as a CSV file. An assessment can also be copied into Word or Google Docs, or printed as a paper with an answer key.

Only the name they type when they join, and their answers. Teachers can delete a session, and with it every student name and answer in it, at any time.

No. The projector and class votes never show names. Only you see names on your own screen.

Their answers are kept on their device and sent as soon as they are back online. If the screen turned off, unlocking the phone reconnects it by itself.

Ask your IT team to allow askroomlive.com, secure WebSocket connections to askroomlive.com on port 443, and to leave askroomlive.com out of HTTPS inspection. The help article "The site is blocked on my school network" has the details.