The 300-seat lecture hall, actually awake.
Replace the back-of-the-room phone scroll with structured rounds the whole hall plays at once. Built for lecturers, tutors, and student societies who want participation that isn't performative.
Six places it just works.
Each of these is something a lecturer or postgrad rep has actually run with us. Pick one, run it, see what happens.
The Monday-morning lecture
Open with a 5-question Trivia round on last week's reading. The hall is awake by minute 4 instead of minute 24.
The 50-minute tutorial
Replace the awkward "anyone want to start?" with a Huddle round. Equal time, enforced by a timer not a tutor.
Freshers' orientation
Icebreaker rounds across 200-person cohorts. New friends, no awkward "name and a fun fact" loops.
Research seminars
Pressure-test a thesis chapter. Boardroom Blitz mode lets the room score clarity, originality, and feasibility — and then defend their scores.
Society & club nights
Patently Absurd is a fresher-week classic. Trivia packs make for a low-effort, high-attendance Wednesday social.
Faculty away days
Six departments, twenty agendas, zero alignment. Run Alignment + Boardroom Blitz to surface what people actually disagree about — anonymously, then publicly.
A few specific ideas.
Lecturers across these subjects have run rounds with us. Steal these. Or invent better ones.
Philosophy
Run A | B on the trolley problem and its variants. Watch the room visibly grimace at their own answers.
Computer Science
Trivia round on classic algorithms. Patently Absurd on real software patents — a lot of which are absurd.
Politics
Alignment on real policy statements before debates. The anonymous reveal makes the seminar 4× sharper.
Design & Architecture
Boardroom Blitz to pitch a project in 90 seconds. Idea Exchange to remix each other's first drafts.
Law
Inside Out on case law — one student gets a different precedent. The room argues which one is the impostor.
Medicine
What Does It Do? on real medical patents. Plus Forest before exam-week revision sessions, no joke.
MBA / Business
Boardroom Blitz on real case studies. Teams mode for a quarter-long inter-cohort league.
Modern Languages
Signal Chain in the target language. The way the message decays tells you exactly where the grammar gaps are.
A 50-minute lecture, restructured.
You don't have to use Huddle Goals for the whole class. A 6-minute round at the right moment changes the rest of the hour.
Built into society life, too.
Student union and societies get the same plan. Run trivia nights, debate evenings, freshers events — without paying for four different tools.
Pub Quiz Society
Custom packs · 100+ player rooms · Wednesday-night-ready.
Debate Society
A | B for warm-ups · Alignment for closers · always something to argue about.
Freshers Reps
Icebreakers across cohorts · onboarding trivia · less awkward, more friends.
Cultural Societies
Custom trivia packs by language, culture, region · custom prompt decks.
60% off, paid by department or society.
Standard team pricing is £8/host/month. With a verified .edu / .ac.uk / .edu.au email it's £3.20. Verified at signup. Site licences for whole faculties — talk to us.
What you get
- All 13 games · unlimited rounds
- Up to 340-player rooms · tested at scale
- Custom trivia & prompt packs · CSV upload
- Cohort & society sub-rooms (no extra cost)
- Single sign-on · works with Shibboleth/SAML
- Speaker-led mode · full host control
- FERPA / GDPR-friendly data export
"My 9am philosophy lecture used to lose 80 students by week 6. Adding a 5-minute Alignment round at the start brought attendance back to week 2 numbers. I wasn't expecting that."
"Freshers' week, 600 new students, four icebreaker rounds running in parallel. Three years of this and I'm not going back to name-tag bingo."
Run your first round this week.
Free during beta · works on any phone · room ready in 10 seconds. Verify your .edu email at signup for the discounted plan automatically.