Free classroom screen tools & widgets

What classroom screen tools actually are

Classroom screen tools are the widgets you put on a projected board — not a folder of iPad apps. You add tiles, resize them, and look at the wall. The cards above open each tool.

They do not grade, and they do not replace your lesson plan. They make time, fairness, and volume visible so the room can see what you already said.

Time: timer, clock, stopwatch

Countdown for transitions, a visual bar for younger grades, stopwatch for labs, clock so nobody asks “what time is it” from a phone. All of that lives on the classroom screen timer.

Leave the name picker beside the clock when you rotate groups. Opening a second timer tab is how you lose the rest of the board.

Volume: noise meter and traffic light

The noise meter moves with the room. The traffic light is the rule you set — voice off, partner talk, presentation. Pair them; they are not duplicates.

The meter asks for the microphone so the bar can move. Audio is not recorded. Revoke permission in the browser when you are done for the day.

Grouping: names, wheel, groups

The random name picker is for one name. The wheel is for choices or brain breaks. The group maker splits a roster. None of these draw a seating chart.

Paste names yourself. These classroom screen tools are not synced to your gradebook. That keeps student IDs off the wall.

Games, drawing, QR, polls

Wordle, brain breaks, and dice sit on the same wall as the timer so a break has an ending. Drawing is a canvas for a fraction, not a full LMS whiteboard. A QR code is for a link you refuse to dictate. Polls are temperature checks, not state tests.

How to pick four classroom screen tools for a period

Ask what will change student behavior in the next 45 minutes. Time → timer. Who answers → names. Volume → meter. The fourth widget is the lesson (poll, QR, drawing, or dice). Everything else waits on a second save.

How the wall, save, and full-screen shortcut work is on features. Shortcuts and troubleshooting live in help. Missing a widget? Ask via contact.

What works well together

Pair a poll with a timer so the discussion ends. Put a one-sentence prompt next to the clock — paragraphs belong on paper. If you project a QR code, write the assignment name in huge type. Close the drawing board when you are done so the next class does not inherit a leftover fraction.

The traffic light is the rule; the meter is the evidence. If they disagree, believe the meter and reset the light. Keep scoreboard points ceremonial unless game days are already in your syllabus. Open classroom games with a countdown still on the wall. If the poll lives on another site, say so before students scan.

Period recipes

Arrival: clock, a short list, a quiet meter. You should not need a speech at the door.

Stations: group list, numbered stations in a text widget, and a rotation timer as the largest tile.

Test: clock and one instruction line. Microphone off. Nothing bouncing.

Sub day: three widgets max, huge type, and the board URL on a sticky note.

Indoor recess: one game plus a hard-stop timer so the break does not become the afternoon.