Plain-language guides to the ABC classroom tools: what each one does, how to run it in class, which plan includes it, and how to get it past a school web filter. No account is needed to read any of them.
Start here
- Classroom tools that work behind the school filter: why tools get blocked, what to look for, and the exact domains to ask your IT department to allow.
- ABC Tools Guide: sign-in, plans and quick start: the long reference for the whole toolkit, tool by tool.
- Quick Poll compared with Mentimeter: an honest side-by-side for live polls in class, and when each one fits better.
- RdR Toolbox Guide: for libraries in the Rete delle Reti network, with sign-in, tiers and a quick start for every RdR tool.
Live, with students on their phones
Students join with a short code or a QR code in their browser. Nothing to install and no student accounts.
- Live Polling: multiple choice, word cloud, open text and scale questions, answered on phones, results on the board.
- Live Word Cloud: class answers grow into a cloud on screen, or paste any text to make one.
- Live Q and A Wall: a wall of short answers to one open question, with a featured answer and CSV export.
- Live Quiz Show: a points-for-speed quiz students join with a 4-letter code.
- Live Class Activities: Six-Word Summary, Spot the Error, Collective Story, Argument Map and Word-Association Web.
- Quick Poll: a free live poll; students join with a code and the teacher signs in with Google to host it.
On the projector
- Classroom Timer: countdown, stopwatch and Pomodoro with think-pair-share presets and a chime.
- Classroom Games: Quiz Show, Name Picker, Team Points, Memory Match and Hangman on one page.
Planning and reading
- AI Lesson Plan Generator: a full English lesson plan and worksheet from a topic and a CEFR level.
- Book Discussion Plans: a timed discussion plan for any book, class or reading group.
Students’ skills
- Source Reliability Checker: a guided SIFT and CRAAP check of any source, with a score and a verdict.
- Digital Skills Self-Check: 35 DigComp-aligned statements with a next step for each area.
Language practice and materials
Free tools for English classes; most open straight from their pages with no sign-up.
- CEFR Placement Quiz: 24 questions that estimate a level from A1 to C2.
- WordLab: example sentences, collocations and writing checks from a corpus of real English.
- Gap-Fill Maker: a cloze exercise from any text you paste.
- Flashcards: two-sided decks shared by link or QR code.
- Crossword Builder: an interlocking crossword from your word list, ready to print.
- Tongue Twister Trainer: seven twisters with a timer, levels and a speech check.
- Story Starter: genre, character and twist prompts with a word goal and a timer.
Games for the board
- Pictionary: two teams, one screen, draw and guess against the clock.
- Word Scramble: timed anagrams with your own lesson vocabulary.
- Word Tiles: a Scrabble-style word game for two, against Otto or a friend.
Everyday utilities
- QR Code Maker: QR codes for a link, WiFi or email, with your logo.
- PDF Toolkit: merge, reorder, compress and sign PDFs in the browser.
- Image Optimizer: compress, resize and convert images to WebP.
- Favicon Generator: every favicon size from one image, plus the HTML.
- Money Toolkit: loan, compound growth, savings and budget calculators.
- Freelance Rate Calculator: the hourly and day rate you need from a target income.
Free English resources for your learners
ABC English Online, the sister site for English learners, has free English worksheets with answers, a free 12-chapter Legal English course (all chapters are listed on the Legal English chapters page) and an English placement test.
Frequently asked questions
Do I need an account to read the guides?
No. The guides and the tool pages are open to everyone. A free ABC account is needed to open most of the tools themselves.
Which tools open without an account?
The Classroom Timer, Classroom Games, Live Quiz Show and Live Class Activities, and the free tools such as the CEFR Placement Quiz, Flashcards, the Crossword Builder, WordLab and the QR Code Maker, open straight from their pages. Quick Poll lets you build a poll without an account; the teacher signs in with Google to host it live, and students never sign in. The other tools need a free ABC account and are included in the paid plans.
Where are the prices?
Every product is on one page: the pricing page lists the teaching tool plans, the RdR toolkit rates and the Mac apps.
See pricing, browse all classroom tools, or read about the person behind the site.