Live quizzes & assessments for teachers and trainers
Know what your class actually understands — right now.
You ask “any questions?” and get silence. PulseCue gets you thirty answers instead — students join from any browser with a code, no accounts, no apps, and you watch understanding show up live.
Which gas do plants absorb during photosynthesis?
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Here for a quiz? Type your code, pick a display name, you’re in. No account, ever.
CODEJoinOne quiz, every job it needs to do.
The usual setup is three tools: a game app for class, a form builder for homework, and you — at 9pm — grading everything the form couldn’t. PulseCue does all three jobs from the same quiz.
Run it live.
Students join from any browser with a session code or QR scan. A display name is enough.
Assign it.
The same quiz becomes a homework link with a 6-character code, an availability window, and timers that submit on expiry.
Grade it.
Multiple choice scores instantly. Free-text answers are graded by AI against your expected answer — with an explanation you can check.
One editor, one results view, one export. Nothing to copy between tools.
- Live session
- Assignment link
- Graded results
Every student answers. Not just the three who always do.
Put your quiz on the projector. Students answer from their phones. You watch the bars move and know — in seconds — whether to move on or back up and re-teach.
One button runs the whole session. Next reveals the correct answer while a question is open, advances when you’re ready, and becomes View Results on the last question. Right Arrow and Space work too, so you can run an entire class without looking at your controls. Press ? for the shortcut overlay if you forget.
Which planet has the most moons?
Answers update live
Question 4 / 10
Which planet has the most moons?
- Join in seconds. Students scan the QR on the screen or type the code at /join. Display name only — the email field is optional, and you can turn it off.
- Live answer bars. The audience screen shows the question, its media, the countdown, and answer percentages as they arrive.
- Screen-share mode. Hides the answer distribution and correct answers, so nobody votes with the herd.
- Leaderboard when you choose. Toggle a top-3 podium and full standings. Ties break on response time. Students get their own results at the end.
- You stay in charge. Go back to a previous question, pause, override any grade, or remove a participant — without breaking the session.
The quiz writes itself. The grading does too. You approve both.
Type a topic. Get a quiz worth running.
Give PulseCue a plain-language prompt — “Newton’s laws, 8th grade, 12 questions, mixed difficulty, some free text.” The draft lands in your editor for review — nothing is ever saved without you.
- Built to your spec. 1 to 30 questions at the difficulty you pick, across single choice, multiple choice, and free text.
- Points and timers included. Every generated question arrives with a time limit estimated for its complexity and 1, 2, or 3 points based on difficulty.
- Edit with AI. Tell any question card “make this harder” or “translate to Spanish” — changes go to the editor, never straight to your quiz.
- Not a paid add-on. AI generation is just how the editor works.
Your next quiz takes one sentence.
AI generation
Which of Newton’s laws explains a rocket’s recoil?
What force keeps a satellite in orbit?
Free-text answers, actually graded.
Let students write real sentences instead of picking A through D. PulseCue grades each written answer against your expected answer — exact string matching is the fallback nobody misses.
- It shows its work. Correct or incorrect, a score, and a one-line explanation of why — for every answer.
- Flagged, not faked. Confidence below 0.65? The grade waits for your review. The AI doesn’t bluff.
- Your red pen wins. One click overrides anything — flagged or not.
- Calibrated to the answer you expect. Set the expected length — single word, a few words, a sentence, a paragraph — so grading judges against the right kind of answer.
Free-text grading
“Objects keep moving unless a force acts on them”
Correct · 0.94Matches Newton’s first law in the expected answer.
“Heavy things fall faster”
Incorrect · 0.91Contradicts the expected answer.
“It depends on the frame”
Needs review · 0.58Class ended. The quiz doesn’t have to.
Turn any quiz into a homework assignment with one click. Same no-account join — students open a link with a 6-character code and start.
- Opens and closes when you say. Set an optional availability window — assign it Friday, have it close Sunday at 9pm.
- Timers that mean it. Give each question its own countdown. When time runs out, the answer submits itself.
- Graded on arrival. Scores land the moment a student finishes — written answers included. Only low-confidence grades wait for your eyes.
- Tab switches, counted. Every attempt records how many times the student left the page. You’ll know what to make of it.
Ch. 4 — Forces & Motion
Open Fri 3:00 PM → Sun 9:00 PM
- MMaya K.Finished in 11m 32s14/16
- DDaniel R.Finished in 16m 05s3 tab switches11/16
- PPriya S.Finished in 9m 48s16/16
Trust the scores. Then learn from them.
Optional anti-cheat, per quiz.
Turn it on and PulseCue watches the signals that matter on typed answers: paste attempts, how often the window lost focus and for how long, keystroke counts, and long answers that arrive suspiciously fast. Each answer gets a risk score and specific flags — you see the evidence and decide what it means. Paste is blocked in text inputs outright.
It flags. You judge.
Flagged answer
Risk: High“Energy can neither be created nor destroyed; it can only be transformed from one form to another, as formalized by…”
- Paste attempts: 4
- Window unfocused: 38s
- 2,100 chars in 41s
Find the question your class keeps missing.
PulseCue aggregates your last 10 sessions per quiz: percent correct for every question, an easy/medium/hard read on each, average response time, and option-by-option breakdowns. If question 7 sits at 31% correct across three classes, that’s not a quiz problem — that’s next Tuesday’s lesson plan.
Percent correct by question
Avg response time 9.4s · 212 answers · last 10 sessions
After any session, download every participant’s answers and scores as a CSV. One click, from the presenter view. Not a paid tier — just a button.
Tonight’s prep, in three steps.
Type your topic.
“Photosynthesis, 10 questions, mixed difficulty.” That’s the whole job. PulseCue drafts the quiz — answers, points, and time limits included. Skim it, tweak what you want, or write questions yourself. A pre-flight check catches missing answers and empty blanks before you can go live.
Put the code on the projector.
The audience screen shows the join code and QR automatically. Students join from any browser. No accounts, no installs, no “I forgot my password.”
Press Next. Teach.
One button reveals answers, moves the class forward, and ends with results. Scores are in before the bell rings — export the CSV and go home.
The small things that decide whether a tool survives the semester.
LaTeX that renders.
$x^2$ inline, $$…$$ display, via KaTeX. Markdown bold, italic, and code too. Fractions look like fractions. STEM teachers, exhale.
Media in any question.
Upload an image, paste an image URL, embed YouTube or Vimeo, or upload a video file directly.
Three question types.
Multiple choice with partial credit per correct option, free text with AI grading, and fill-in-the-blanks with several accepted answers per blank.
Practice and preview.
Run the quiz solo with nothing recorded, or proofread it with correct answers highlighted.
Templates you’ll reuse.
Save any question with tags, search the library, drop it into any quiz.
Share with your team.
Add collaborators by email — Editors can edit and present, Presenters can only run sessions.
Honest defaults, real controls.
Points 1–1000, timers 5 seconds to an hour, shuffled answer order per student, and a lock-first-answer setting when you want it.
Your quizzes are yours.
Export any quiz as a JSON file and import it anywhere. Deleted by accident? Restorable for 7 days.
Find out what they actually understood. Tomorrow morning.
Make one quiz tonight — type a topic, skim the questions, done. Run it on tomorrow’s first class and watch the bars move. The scores will be in before the students reach the hallway.
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