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AI Tools for Teachers / Classroom Engagement

Classroom Engagement

Attention is the scarcest resource in any classroom. Engagement tools compete for it fairly: live quizzes and games, polls, spinners, timers and interactive presentations that turn “eyes up here” into something students actually want to join.

Free tiers in this category are genuinely usable, which is why it is the biggest in the teachers directory. Start free, and pay only when you need the reporting, the bigger classes or the admin console.

30 tools · pricing verified 2026-10-14

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Curipod

Freemium

Generates interactive lessons — polls, word clouds, drawings, AI feedback — from a topic, built to get every student responding, not just watching slides.

Pricing: Free for teachers; school plans on the official pricing page (checked Oct 2026)

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Nearpod

Freemium

Interactive lessons combining slides, video, simulations and checks for understanding, delivered to student devices in class or as self-paced homework.

Pricing: Free plan available; teacher plans from $159/yr (official pricing page, Oct 2026)

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Pear Deck

Freemium

Adds interactive questions, draggable responses and audio into Google Slides and PowerPoint so every student answers every prompt, anonymously if you like.

Pricing: Free plan available; Premium $149/yr (official pricing page, Oct 2026)

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ClassPoint

Freemium

Interactive teaching tools embedded directly in PowerPoint — quizzes, gamified stars, a name picker and whiteboard — without leaving your slide deck.

Pricing: Free plan available; Pro pricing on the official pricing page (checked Oct 2026)

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Kahoot!

Freemium

The original live quiz game: fast-paced multiple-choice competitions with a huge public library, plus AI tools to generate questions from your material.

Pricing: Free plan for teachers; paid plans from $19/mo (official pricing page, Oct 2026)

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Blooket

Freemium

Quiz review disguised as arcade games — tower defence, racing, gold quests — where students answer your question sets to power the game.

Pricing: Free to play and host; Plus membership pricing on the official site (checked Oct 2026)

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Gimkit

Freemium

Live quiz game where correct answers earn in-game currency students spend on power-ups, created by a high-school student and loved for its strategy layer.

Pricing: Free plan available; Pro pricing on the official pricing page (checked Oct 2026)

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Mentimeter

Freemium

Interactive presentations with live polls, quizzes, word clouds and Q&A, so audiences answer from their phones and results appear on screen instantly.

Pricing: Free plan available; paid plans on the official pricing page (checked Oct 2026)

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Slido

Freemium

Audience interaction for classes and meetings — live polls, quizzes and managed Q&A that surfaces the questions students are afraid to ask out loud.

Pricing: Free plan available; paid plans on the official pricing page (checked Oct 2026)

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Padlet

Freemium

Collaborative digital noticeboards where students post text, images, video and links — a flexible wall for brainstorms, exit tickets and showcases.

Pricing: Free plan available; paid plans listed on the official site (checked Oct 2026)

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Classroomscreen

Freemium

A calm classroom screen with timers, noise meters, random name pickers, polls and work symbols — the widgets that keep lessons running smoothly.

Pricing: Free; Premium $3/mo (official pricing page, Oct 2026)

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Whiteboard.fi

Freemium

Instant digital whiteboards: push an exercise to the class and watch every student's board live from your screen, no student accounts needed.

Pricing: Free for teachers; premium pricing on the official site (checked Oct 2026)

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Wooclap

Freemium

Interactive questions woven into your slides and videos — polls, quizzes, brainstorms — with AI help generating questions from your course content.

Pricing: Free plan for teachers; pricing on the official site (checked Oct 2026)

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AhaSlides

Freemium

Interactive presentation software with live quizzes, polls, word clouds and a spinner wheel, popular for energetic lessons and school assemblies.

Pricing: Free plan available; paid plans listed on the official pricing page (checked Oct 2026)

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Genially

Freemium

Turns lessons into interactive, animated experiences — escape rooms, gamified quizzes, clickable infographics — with templates teachers can remix.

Pricing: Free plan available; education plans on the official pricing page (checked Oct 2026)

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BookWidgets

Paid

Builds 40+ interactive exercise types and auto-graded quizzes that embed in your LMS, with a widget library covering everything from timelines to WebQuests.

Pricing: Free trial; teacher and school pricing on the official pricing page (checked Oct 2026)

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ClassDojo

Free tier

Classroom community platform for points, portfolios and parent messaging — the behaviour and communication hub of millions of primary classrooms.

Pricing: Free for teachers; school plans via the official site (checked Oct 2026)

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Seesaw

Freemium

Digital portfolio where young students capture work with photos, drawing and voice, and teachers approve, comment and share it with families.

Pricing: Free plan for teachers; school plans on the official pricing page (checked Oct 2026)

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Edpuzzle

Freemium

Makes video lessons accountable: crop a clip, add questions inside the video, and see exactly who watched and what they understood.

Pricing: Free plan for teachers; school plans on the official pricing page (checked Oct 2026)

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Wordwall

Freemium

Printable and interactive activities from templates — matching, quizzes, wheels, anagrams — with a vast community library teachers copy and adapt.

Pricing: Free plan available; paid plans on the official site (checked Oct 2026)

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Baamboozle

Freemium

Team quiz games that run from one classroom screen — no student devices needed — with millions of teacher-made games ready to play.

Pricing: Free games available; Plus pricing on the official site (checked Oct 2026)

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JeopardyLabs

Freemium

Builds Jeopardy-style review games in the browser with no PowerPoint required, plus a searchable archive of teacher-made boards by subject.

Pricing: Free to build and play; Plus upgrade priced on the official site (checked Oct 2026)

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Flippity

Free tier

Free Google Sheets templates that become flashcards, quizzes, games, certificates and classroom tools — a long-running favourite for zero-budget interactivity.

Pricing: Free (official site, checked Oct 2026)

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Educaplay

Freemium

Creates interactive activities — crosswords, matching, video quizzes, dialogues — that embed anywhere and track student results automatically.

Pricing: Free plan available; premium pricing on the official site (checked Oct 2026)

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Parlay

Freemium

Discussion platform with written and verbal RoundTables; its AI assistant drafts higher-order discussion prompts from articles and videos you assign.

Pricing: Free to start for teachers; school plans on the official site (checked Oct 2026)

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Kialo Edu

Free tier

Structured debate platform that maps arguments into claim trees, teaching students to weigh evidence and respond to the strongest opposing point.

Pricing: Free for educational use (official pricing page, checked Oct 2026)

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Scratch

Free tier

MIT's block-coding environment where students build games, stories and animations — the default starting point for creative computing in schools.

Pricing: Free (checked Oct 2026)

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Code.org

Free tier

Free computer-science curriculum, Hour of Code activities and teacher dashboards that carry a class from first blocks to AP principles.

Pricing: Free for teachers and students (checked Oct 2026)

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Tynker

Freemium

Coding courses for schools that move students from block coding to Python and JavaScript, with lesson plans, auto-grading and classroom management.

Pricing: Free educator plan available; school pricing on the official site (checked Oct 2026)

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Legends of Learning

Paid

Thousands of curriculum-aligned games, mostly maths and science, assigned by topic with teacher reports on what each student has mastered.

Pricing: School and district licensing from $790 (official pricing page, Oct 2026)

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