A lightweight app for picking students at random and recording participation. Register and try it out at pick.al.
The picker (to be used by the instructor in class, either on a phone or computer) randomly picks a student from the roster to be called upon, and records the result.
- Record participation events and swipe over history to edit and undo
- Multiple participation schemae (✓/?/× and 1-5 included; custom also possible)
- "Snooze" student with a tap
- Roster sidebar to select specific students
- Stage queued questions
- Keyboard, mouse, and touch/swipe navigation
- Keep track of cumulative participation scores
- Upload and download CSV rosters, or add students one-by-one
- Add notes to students that show up in the picker (e.g. "Sits in the back row")
- View, edit, and delete individual participation events on a per-student basis
- Set excused absences, so a student's name doesn't come up until a set date
- Search for students across classes
- Queue up questions and see the students who answered them
- Create custom participation schemae
- Register and log in with OrcID
- Public JSON API for external integration (disabled by default)
Bug reports and feature requests can be filed in the issues tab here on Github.
- E2E encryption