Question
Ready
Click the picker to start (or press Space)
10
Thinking time
Scan the code with your phone, or open the remote page and type the code. Then pick names, run Form time and give points from anywhere in the room.
This copy doesn't know where the relay is yet. Paste the address from MIX-ED (it starts with wss://) and press Connect.
Messages are scrambled with the code before they leave this computer. Pupil names never sit on a server.
Pick a tool. Everything uses the same classes.
Lessons, units and cover work, ready for the board.
Who’s next, where they sit, who they work with and how long they’ve got.
Open and close the lesson, get them talking and check what they know.
Keep time, tune up, write it down and play along.
Click any card to show it big on the board. Every day brings a new set; New ideas shuffles them.
Everything for the lesson, on your screen. Only the name picker goes on the board.
Choose a name picker, then press Put the board on the projector (extended display), or Start the lesson to use this screen.
Pupils marked G&T get the challenge questions. Each question is asked once a lesson; New lesson starts them again. The thinking-time countdown runs with each question.
Each line scrolls along the ON AIR banner on the main page and in Form time, every day until you delete it.
This lesson's learning objectives and key words, scrolling along the top or bottom of every tool on the board.
Cards
Form time sizes itself to fill one screen. Fewer cards means bigger text for the back of the room; on a small or older projector, untick a few so nothing scrolls. Notices and your picture of the day show whenever you add them.
Teams
| No. | Name | Away today | Don't ask | G&T | Boy | Girl | Front seat | Keep apart from | Instrument lessons | Where | Grade | Birthday | PP | Asked last lesson | Answers ✓ ✗ |
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Away, Don't ask, G&T and SEND are only ever on your screen, never on the board.
Who plays what, where they learn, their last grade — for seating, challenge questions, group leaders, performing in class and whole-school events. Your screen only.
Peripatetic lessons that rotate through the day, so nobody misses the same lesson every week. INSET days and early finishes are skipped and the rota carries on. Your screen only.
Click a free slot to book a pupil (musicians are listed first). ↻ makes it the same every week. Each pupil can have a set number of bookings a week; two rooms at once are blocked. Your screen only — the board view shows first names only.
Pick the year, topic and pronoun, a WWW and an EBI, and it writes five comments from amazing to needs more focus. Add a pupil to drop in their name and instrument. Written on this computer — nothing is sent anywhere.
The evidence page: who learns what, uptake and retention, lessons taught, practice-room use and points — from everything set up in Classroom. Numbers only; no pupil is named unless you open the detail.
Everything here is saved for next time.
Saved in this browser.
Every name picker teaches a bit of music while it picks.
Pick the classes to bring in. The names go straight from Google into your own Drive; nothing passes through MIX-ED.
Connecting to Google Classroom…
Tap anyone who's not in. They won't be picked this lesson. Everyone comes back automatically tomorrow.
Each pupil's number is their place in the class list. Tell pupils their number, then tick "Show numbers instead of names" in Settings so the name pickers show numbers.
Choose support for pupils with special educational needs. Saved only on this computer and never shown on the board.
| Pupil | Don't pick at randomI'll ask them myself | Pick less often | Extra thinking timedouble, or 20 s | Quiet pickno sound | With a partnershown with the name | G&Tchallenge questions |
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Used to auto-fill the seating plan and to make fair groups. Saved only on this computer and never shown on the board.
| Pupil | Boy | Girl | Front seate.g. eyesight, focus | Keep apart from |
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