Audience response for education and organisations
arsnova.eu brings together live quizzes, numeric estimation questions, confidence ratings on scored questions, a Q&A wall, word-cloud analysis and Pulse Check feedback in one interface for schools, universities, continuing education, workshops and business. The quiz editor and host view for teachers and presenters are built for a phone first — every question format, not scaled down from a desktop. Open source, runnable on your own infrastructure and designed for operation with GDPR in mind.
Conforms to WCAG 2.2 Level AA — keyboard, screen reader and individually adjustable response time.
For teaching, training and workshops
From preparation to the running session, the flow deliberately avoids unnecessary steps. That is what makes getting started fast and reliable for educators, trainers and facilitators.
Create questions directly or import existing content — fully on a smartphone, in every question format. Markdown, KaTeX, short answer, numeric estimation, matching, ordering and categorisation are built in, not a cut-down mobile editor.
The quiz collection stays on your device — important for GDPR. If you have to use someone else’s computer in the lecture room, you bring it over with a sync link instead of a USB stick. You can give the same link to colleagues so you can use and edit the collection together. Create the link in the quiz collection; paste a received link on the home page.
Start without an account: open a session, choose a style, share a code or QR. Optionally connect a phone or tablet and open presenter view for the projector.
You walk the room and run the live session from your phone. The host view is built for that — not scaled down from a desktop. Participants vote, ask questions and prioritise together. The facilitator and presenter show the quiz, Q&A wall, word cloud, Pulse Check, reading phase, countdown, second round and results in one flow.
After the session ends, the results report (PDF) is ready — with learning progress, confidence rating and full question text. In the quiz collection you will find debriefing and PDF for the last run; CSV for Excel under “More”.
What sets arsnova.eu apart
arsnova.eu combines a fast start, pedagogical depth and a transparent technical foundation. The platform stays simple day to day without shrinking what you can do.
Other audience-response tools usually treat authoring and the teacher role as desktop products. Here you create a quiz on a smartphone in every question format — and the same host view runs quiz, Q&A, Pulse Check and results in your hand, even without a laptop. Pairing with a projector is optional.
Connect a phone or tablet and run the live session on the move: questions, results, Q&A, Pulse Check, End session. No account on the phone: the QR is on the laptop, and you approve there. The quiz collection stays on the computer — you can hand the device over without sharing passwords.
Facilitators start without an account. Participants join the session directly with a 6-digit code or QR.
Participants say how sure they are after answering. You spot confidently wrong answers, prioritise the debriefing and export the level of understanding in the results report (PDF).
After the session ends you export a print-ready PDF report with charts, question text and confidence rating. CSV for Excel remains optional under “More”.
Years, orders of magnitude and measurements can be estimated with a reference value, tolerance band, statistics and an optional second round.
MC/SC, short answers, ratings, matching, ordering, categorisation, reading phase, Peer Instruction and presenter mode support learning, training and live facilitation.
Q&A offers pre-moderation, pinning, archiving, up/down voting and sorting by support, quality and controversy.
Free text and Q&A are condensed into words and phrases; the wall weights by agreement, clear majority score or controversy.
Presets, team mode, anonymous mode, nicknames and style choice help from class and seminar to workshop, event and meeting.
Keyboard use, screen-reader status updates, individually adjustable response time and PDF/UA-1-validated results reports — so more learners can join live sessions independently.
Quiz content stays on your device, optional data removal and operation on your own infrastructure give you more control over content and live data.
Docker, Postgres, Redis and an admin activity log make the platform reliable for deployment, operations and auditability.
What sets us apart
Pairing works because the host view itself is designed for a phone first. Other audience-response tools often offer a remote — as a slide clicker or with a separate account on the phone. With arsnova.eu you scan a QR, approve on the laptop, and the phone only runs the live session.
Laptop and projector
Show the presentation. You confirm the connection here. The quiz collection stays here.
Phone or tablet
Runs the live session — no extra login — while you are in the room.
Structured question types
Three formats turn relationships, sequences and conceptual boundaries into active tasks — and you create them fully on a smartphone. Solutions stay hidden while voting is open; model answers and common error patterns appear only after reveal.
Match terms, definitions or examples one to one. The results reveal common mix-ups.
Put steps, events or stages of a process in the correct order. The results show which positions caused uncertainty.
Assign terms or examples to the appropriate categories. The results reveal clear distinctions and common misclassifications.
All three formats are scored. An answer currently receives full credit or no credit; partial credit is not available.
During an active round, correct pairings, target order and target categories remain hidden. The model answer and detailed distributions appear only after reveal.
New in the live quiz
The numeric estimation question is built for years, orders of magnitude, measurements and probabilities. Facilitators set a reference value, allowed input range and tolerance; participants enter only a number.
Facilitator view after release
Tolerance band
1700 to 1900
Plausibility band
1500 to 2000
Histogram, reference line and tolerance band appear only after results are released. Until then, only a neutral progress indicator is visible.
n
20
Median
1788
in band
95 %
Round 2
14 answers closer to the reference
Facilitator view after release
Correct · low confidence
3
Correct · medium confidence
8
Correct · high confidence
11
Incorrect · low confidence
2
Incorrect · medium confidence
4
Incorrect · high confidence
2
2 confidently wrong answers
Option B was chosen twice with high confidence — a signal for possible misconceptions in the debriefing.
Solid
11
Misconception risk
2
Fragile
3
After the session ends
Print-ready report with learning progress, heatmap and full question text — in the facilitator view and on the quiz card. CSV for Excel remains available under “More”.
Pedagogical analysis
With the confidence rating, participants indicate how sure they are after answering (1–5). You see not only the hit rate, but also confidently wrong answers — a useful tool for formative evaluation, focused debriefing and the results report (PDF) after the session ends.
Live Q&A as a moderation space
The Q&A wall is not a side chat. It is a dedicated live channel for facilitators and speakers: moderate submissions, spot collective priorities, surface controversial points and bring the key themes into the room via a weighted Q&A word cloud.
Facilitator’s Q&A view
15 up · 3 down · best question
9 up · 5 down · controversial
11 up · 0 down · mostly supported
Q&A word cloud
Weighted by positive support and controversy.
Next step: a deterministic moderation compass, optionally complemented by asynchronous language-analysis signals and summaries grounded in the submitted questions.
Accessibility
For schools, universities and continuing education, accessibility is often a decisive criterion. arsnova.eu meets the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 at Level AA — with keyboard use, screen-reader support, individually adjustable response time and accessibly structured PDF results reports.
You and your participants can use the core flows without a mouse. Visible focus marks and a skip link to content make navigation easier.
Status changes when joining a session, during voting and at phase changes are announced for screen readers so users can follow the flow.
For timed questions you choose standard time, tenfold response time or participation without a time limit. Reasonable adjustments can be applied directly in the live session.
The print-ready report is PDF/UA-1-validated and includes document title, language and tags — for follow-up and accessible sharing.
Trust
arsnova.eu continues the ARSnova ecosystem tradition and builds on scientific, pedagogical and practical experience from many years of education technology.
Since 2012
ARSnova tradition in education and edtech
WCAG 2.2 AA
Verified accessibility for teaching and institutions
5 UI languages
German, English, French, Spanish, Italian
Open source
Transparent code instead of opaque systems
“A privacy-friendly path: no personal data stored permanently on the server.”— DeLFI 2017
“UX evaluation in direct comparison with Kahoot! as an empirical design checkpoint.”— fnm-austria
“Privacy from the ground up and technical openness are a real differentiator for European edtech contexts.”— Publication analysis
“Practically proven in real education settings, not only described as a concept.”— Use in teaching and training contexts
Full references and the underlying publication collection are in ARSnova-Recherche.pdf on GitHub.
Differentiation
The focus is not only voting, but the full live flow: prepare on your phone, facilitate from anywhere in the room, make results visible and keep control of content and operations.
Most audience-response tools design quiz authoring and the teacher role for a desk and a large screen. Here you create every question format on a smartphone and run the quiz, Q&A, Pulse Check and results in your hand. A laptop and projector remain optional — not a requirement for the console to be usable.
Other tools often offer a remote as a slide clicker or with a separate login. Here you scan a QR and approve on the laptop. The phone runs the session without its own account: questions, results, Q&A, Pulse Check, End session. The quiz collection stays on the laptop.
No separate product logic for “create” and “join”. Facilitators start without an account; participants enter the session via code or QR.
Alongside quizzes: matching, ordering, categorisation, numeric estimation questions, reading phase, Peer Instruction, Pulse Check, Q&A wall and weighted word cloud in one platform — not only slide polls.
Open source, runnable on your own infrastructure and with quiz content kept locally — plus conformance to WCAG 2.2 Level AA. Relevant for schools, universities and organisations with privacy and inclusion requirements.
You can still find the full feature comparison in the docs: Open the comparison on GitHub
FAQ
No. A session can be started without an account. Participants join via code or QR.
Yes. You create a quiz on a smartphone in every question format — single- and multiple-answer, short answer, numeric estimation, matching, ordering and categorisation. The same host view runs the live session: quiz, Q&A, Pulse Check and results. Both are designed for a phone first, not as a shrunken desktop. Optionally you pair a second device: the projector stays on the laptop, the phone runs the live session, without a separate account.
Yes. When you start the presentation the QR appears on the laptop; you approve the connection there. The phone needs no account. It runs the live session — questions, results, Q&A, Pulse Check, End session — not the quiz collection. You can hand the device to an assistant without sharing passwords. Other tools often have a remote with an extra login or only as a slide clicker.
Quiz content stays on your device. For live sessions only the technically necessary session data is processed; when you run it yourself, operations stay in your own infrastructure.
Yes. The collection stays on your device on purpose — important for GDPR. If you have to use someone else’s computer in the lecture room, you bring it over with a sync link instead of a USB stick. You can give the same link to colleagues so you can use and edit the collection together. Create the link in the quiz collection; paste a received link on the home page.
Yes. The platform is open source and designed to run with Docker, PostgreSQL and Redis.
An optional follow-up after scored questions: participants rate on a scale of 1–5 how sure they are about their answer. Points stay unchanged; in the facilitator evaluation you see correctness × confidence and flag confidently wrong answers as a misconception signal. After the session ends, learning outcomes feed into debriefing and the results report (PDF).
Yes. After the session ends, the results report (PDF) is the primary format — including confidence rating, debriefing priorities and full question text. In the quiz collection you will find debriefing and PDF for the last run. Tabular CSV data is available under “More” for Excel.
It separates allowed inputs from the subject-matter tolerance band, shows no distribution during voting, and can evaluate a second round after discussion with statistics and round comparison.
Participants submit questions and weight them with upvotes and downvotes. Facilitators can pre-moderate, pin, archive or remove questions and sort the list by support, clear majority agreement or controversy.
It condenses visible questions into words and phrases and follows the active sort logic. So it shows not only frequent terms, but topic groups from supported, clearly high-scoring or controversial questions.
For live interaction in education and organisations: school, university, continuing education, training, workshop, event or meeting.
arsnova.eu conforms to WCAG 2.2 Level AA. Core flows are keyboard-operable, screen readers announce status changes, response time on timed questions is individually adjustable (standard time, tenfold response time or no time limit), and the accessibly structured results report is PDF/UA-1-validated.
Try the live flow directly in the app, or take a look at the open source code, the Q&A logic, the word-cloud processing pipeline and the technical foundations for deployment and operations.
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