11. Poll Everywhere
Poll Everywhere
Lets a presenter put live polls, word clouds, quizzes and Q&A into slides, and audiences answer from their own devices through a web address or a code. The free plan has unlimited questions, a 40-person class size and 10 AI prompts a month. The privacy policy says education records are used only to provide the service and are never sold or shared, and that it does not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13 except as COPPA permits. Its K-12 page says student accounts are not required by default.
The free part: Free plan: unlimited questions, a 40-person class size, 10 AI prompts a month. No reporting, attendance, archived results or custom branding.
Paid plans run from $9 a month (Lecture) to $27 a month (Educator+), billed annually (as of 2026-11-08).
Watch for The free plan stops at 40 people, so a full class of 40 uses it up on one poll, and the policy puts the duty to get any COPPA consents for under-13s on the teacher or school.
Visit Poll Everywhere ↗ Facts read on the maker’s page.
22. Peabody Live (class quiz with a join code)
Peabody
A live review game for the projector: students open teach.peabody.kids/join on a Chromebook, iPad, laptop or phone, type a six-letter code and pick a made-up game name, then tap one of three big boxes. You paste your own questions or choose a math facts set, and play together, in teams or at each student's own level. Nothing about students is stored, results stay on your computer unless you download a spreadsheet, and below 3rd grade nobody is ranked.
Free; no account, no ads.
Watch for It is a multiple-choice review game, not a poll maker: no open answers or word clouds, up to 60 devices, and the school network must allow a live connection.
Visit Peabody Live (class quiz with a join code) ↗
Interactive presentations with live polls, quizzes, word clouds and Q&A. The free plan includes 23 slide types and Menti AI. Participants join by link, QR code or a code at menti.com, and the help page lists no account step. The privacy page says its services are not directed to children under 13 and lists device information and IP addresses among the data it logs for participants.
The free part: Free plan: 23 slide types and insights; participant names, slide import, private presentations and export are paid features.
Education Basic is $8.99 a month and Pro $14.99 a month per presenter, billed yearly (as of 2026-11-08).
Watch for The plans page shows 50 participants a month in its table but also says unlimited participants once a month, so check your class size, and the maker says its services are not directed to children under 13.
Visit Mentimeter ↗ Facts read on the maker’s page.
A quick-check tool where each student holds up a printed card, turned to pick an answer, and the teacher scans the room with a phone or tablet app. The help center says there is no need for student devices or accounts, and sessions can run offline. The free version includes printing cards, creating questions, scanning answers and reports. Teachers add the class roster themselves and give each student a card number.
The free part: Free: printing cards, creating questions, scanning student answers and reports. Pro adds paid extras.
Pro is $8.99 a month, or $71.88 a year (as of 2026-11-08), with a free 14-day trial.
Watch for The teacher scans with the phone or tablet app, answers are limited to the card choices, and you enter student names on your roster.
Visit Plickers ↗ Facts read on the maker’s page.
A presentation tool with live polls, quizzes and Q&A. Its docs say participants do not need an account and do not have to sign up or log in to join. They are asked for a name only on quiz slides, in Q&A or feedback, or when the host collects audience info, so plain poll slides do not ask for one. The free plan engages up to 50 participants live, with unlimited presentations a month.
The free part: Free plan: up to 50 live participants and unlimited presentations a month. Extra participants cannot join.
The pricing page we read shows no education prices (as of 2026-11-08).
Watch for Students are asked for a name on quiz and Q&A slides, so use poll slides with children, and the pages we read did not state a policy on student data.
Visit AhaSlides ↗ Facts read on the maker’s page.
66. Microsoft Forms
Microsoft
A lightweight app for surveys, quizzes and polls, free for anyone with a Microsoft account and included with Office 365 Education. Respondents use almost any web browser, and an author can let people outside the organization respond, in which case responses are anonymous. Results can be seen as they come in and exported to Excel. Microsoft says Forms meets FERPA standards.
Free with a Microsoft account; free accounts get up to 200 responses per form (as of 2026-11-08).
Watch for The teacher needs a Microsoft or school account, students answer on their own time rather than in a live paced session, and the admin page we read is dated 2021.
Visit Microsoft Forms ↗ Facts read on the maker’s page.
Builds forms and quizzes you share by link, with responses summarized in real time. Google's Workspace guide says that by default access is restricted to people inside your organization and people must sign in, though you can share a form outside the organization by turning that restriction off. Answers can be checked with a quiz, and the Forms page says respondents' progress is saved as a draft for 30 days when they are signed in.
The pages we read give no price; Forms sits in Google Workspace.
Watch for By default students must sign in, it is not a live paced poll, and the pages we read did not say anything on ads or student data.
Visit Google Forms ↗ Facts read on the maker’s page.
Live polls, Q&A, quizzes and word clouds, built mostly for meetings and events, with an Education solution. Its home page offers a forever-free Basic plan and says attendees can join without any logins or downloads. The security page says it collects participants' IP addresses and guarantees that an anonymous question stays anonymous.
The free part: Forever-free Basic plan. We could not read its limits on the pages we fetched.
Paid upgrades start at EUR 15 a month (as of 2026-11-08).
Watch for On Basic plans the security page says all data collected is considered public and can be shown on Slido's site, and it has no statement about children or student data.
Visit Slido ↗ Facts read on the maker’s page.