Put a room code on the screen and your whole lecture theatre can answer from their phones, with no accounts and no app. You find out who followed the argument before you build on it, and students who would never raise a hand still get to answer.
In a room of 150, a handful of confident students speak for everyone, and you calibrate the lecture to them.
You find out what didn’t land when the coursework arrives, long after the lecture that caused it.
Slides, a polling site, a demo in another window, then back again. Every switch costs the room’s attention.
Everything below happens inside one OctoDecks presentation. Students join once with a room code and stay with you throughout.
“What comes to mind when you hear…?” The cohort’s prior ideas appear on screen in seconds.
An anonymous hinge question before the next idea builds on this one. The distribution tells you whether to move on.
A live simulator, notebook or tool full-screen inside the deck, with no window-switching and a link for students to open it themselves.
Vote, turn to a neighbour and argue, then vote again. The shift in the results is the learning.
What was the muddiest point today? Use the answers to plan next week’s opening.
Students join with a room code on any device. No sign-up and no personal data, so nothing stands between a student and their first answer.
Polls, MCQs, word clouds and confidence checks stream to the screen as students respond, so you can adjust the lecture as it happens.
Card sort, match up, odd one out and retrieval grids for small-group work, also available as standalone sessions with no deck needed.
The Web Player shows a live web app inside the presentation, and can connect to USB and serial devices for engineering and lab demos.
Every student gets a readable copy of the lecture on their own device, with font size, dyslexia-friendly fonts, spacing and background under their own control.
Export any deck to PDF or PowerPoint for Moodle, Canvas or Blackboard. The same deck can be reused with next year’s cohort.
For individual lecturers, modules, schools and faculties. Invoice and purchase order accepted.
No. Students open a browser, enter the room code and they’re in. There are no accounts, no email addresses and no app to install.
Yes. Students aren’t identified by an institutional account, so they can answer honestly, which is exactly what you want from a hinge question.
Yes. Every activity also runs as a standalone Interactive Session. Open it, paste or upload your content by CSV, share the code and go.
On EU servers. Session and response data is deleted when you end the session. Your slide images stay on your own device and are only hosted while a lecture is live, then deleted when it ends. See our privacy policy for full details.
30 days free, with every feature unlocked from the first minute. No card required. Enter your email, get a one-click login link and build your first deck.