23 ways to make
every student think

Multiple choice

Students pick from up to 4 options. See the response split live as a bar chart — reveal correct answers with one click.

Short answer

Free-text responses, marked automatically by AI against a model answer. Instant per-student feedback with override controls.

Extended response

Multi-paragraph open questions with criterion-based AI marking. Review, moderate, and override marks before releasing results.

Mind map

Students build branching idea maps from a central concept. Responses aggregate into a shared class mind map you can explore live.

Poll

Open-ended opinion or quick polls. No right or wrong — great for reading the room at the start or end of a lesson.

Word cloud

Students submit words or short phrases that build into a live class word cloud — popular answers appear larger. Great for brainstorms and vocabulary checks.

Drag & drop

Students sort, rank, or categorise items by dragging them into zones or sequences. Automatically marked with visual feedback on placement.

Fill the gaps

Students complete sentences or passages by typing into blank spaces or dragging word choices. Supports multi-word answers.

Draw

Students annotate an image, diagram, or blank canvas by drawing freehand. Ideal for labelling diagrams, sketching graphs, or showing working.

Match pairs

Students connect items on the left with their correct match on the right. Great for vocabulary, definitions, cause-and-effect, or key-term revision.

Think, Pair, Share

Students think independently, then discuss with a partner before sharing with the class. A structured oracy routine that deepens thinking before speaking or writing.

Talk before you write

Students articulate ideas aloud before writing — solo reflection or partner discussion. Reduces blank-page anxiety and improves the quality of written responses.

Diamond 9

Students rank nine statements or concepts from most to least important in a diamond arrangement. Generates discussion, debate, and critical comparison between ideas.

Ordering

Students arrange items into the correct sequence — steps in a process, events in a timeline, or stages of an argument.

Table

Students complete a structured table or grid, filling in missing values, categories, or comparisons across rows and columns.

Graph & data

Students read, interpret or plot data on a graph or chart — ideal for maths, science, and geography data-handling tasks.

Confidence check

A quick, low-stakes check of how confident students feel about a topic — surfaces uncertainty before it shows up in a mark.

Exit ticket

A short set of reflection or recap questions at the end of a lesson, giving you a quick formative read on what stuck.

Rating scale

Pupils rate a statement on a scale you define. The spread appears live, so you can see whether a class agrees before anyone says it out loud.

Confidence RAG

Red, amber or green against the objective. The fastest read in the room on who needs you next, and it is recorded against the slide.

Image upload

Pupils photograph practical work, a diagram or a page of written working and send it straight to the board. Evidence from books, without collecting them in.

Interactive activity

Embed a purpose-built interactive task in the lesson and keep pupils inside Classfolio, with responses captured like any other slide.

Retrieval grid

A grid of questions drawn from earlier topics, scored as pupils go — spaced retrieval that builds itself from what the class has already been taught.