Free classroom tools for teachers

Pick and call on students

• Wheel of Names: Spin a wheel to pick a name for draws and raffles.
• Random Name Picker: Paste your names, pick 1 to 100 winners, add weights if you want. Names stay in your browser.
• Shuffle List: Randomize a list, pick the first few and copy.
• Random Number: Generate numbers within any range.
• Dice Roller: Roll d4 to d20 dice, one or many, with a total.
• Random Letter: Pick one letter or up to 100, from A to Z, vowels or consonants. Runs in your browser.
• Bingo caller: Call bingo numbers at random with no repeats. Big current call, last 5 calls, a full board, auto-call and optional spoken calls.

Groups and seating

• Team Maker: Split names into random teams or groups of a set size.
• Random Pairs: Paste names, get random pairs or trios, and keep chosen people apart. Runs in your browser.
• Seating Chart: Paste names, set seats per row and get a random seating chart. Keep chosen people in the front row.

Timers and routines

• Countdown Timer: Set hours, minutes and seconds, press Start. It rings at zero and stays right in a background tab.
• Interval Timer: Work and rest rounds with beeps, round counts and total time left. It stays right in a background tab.
• Stopwatch: Start, pause and record laps. It follows the clock, so a background tab stays right.
• Pomodoro Timer: Focus 25 minutes, break 5, long break 15 after four sessions. All lengths editable, with a session count.
• Alarm Clock: Set a time, add a label, pick a sound and snooze 5 or 10 minutes. It rings only while this tab stays open.

Quizzes and practice

• Capital Cities Quiz: Test yourself on the capital of every country: pick a region, choose from 4 answers or type it, play 10, 25 or all, then review what you missed or study the full list.
• Flashcard Maker: Paste terms and definitions, flip and shuffle cards to study, or print up to 200 cards as a double-sided PDF with cut lines.
• Spelling Bee Practice: Hear a word, then tap the letters to spell it. About 600 words from cat and sun to squirrel and February, six levels, and missed words that come back.
• Math Riddles: A snail on a wall, posts in a fence, socks in the dark. Short word puzzles that look easy and are not. Five levels, a Riddle of the Day, and printable worksheets.
• Math Practice Paper: A multiple-choice practice paper for ages 6 to 8: 12 questions in 3 sections worth 3, 4 and 5 points, scored at the end, with a printable copy and answer key. Free, no account.
• Typing Test: Type for 15, 30, 60 or 120 seconds and get net and gross WPM, accuracy and characters per minute. Nothing leaves your browser.
• Word Unscrambler: Type your letters, with up to 2 blank tiles, and see every word you can make, longest first. Nothing leaves your browser.

Printables and handouts

• Math Worksheets: Make addition, subtraction, multiplication or division worksheets with your number range, stacked or in a row, and an answer key page.
• Multiplication Chart: Print a times table chart from 1 to 12 or 1 to 20 with coloured rows, a practice chart with blanks, or a quiz with an answer key.
• Graph Paper: Pick square, dot, isometric, hexagon or polar paper, set the spacing in mm or inches, and download it as a PDF or PNG.
• Lined Paper: Pick wide, college, narrow, handwriting or Cornell ruling, add a margin line and a colour, and download a page as a PDF or PNG.
• Bingo Card Generator: Make up to 100 different bingo cards, with 75-ball numbers or your own words, and download them as a PDF with a caller sheet.
• Word Search Maker: Type 2 to 30 words, pick a square or rectangular grid and the difficulty, and print the puzzle with an answer key as a PDF.
• Crossword Maker: Type 2 to 40 answers with clues, get a numbered crossword layout, and print the puzzle with an answer key as a PDF.
• Certificate Maker: Pick one of six templates, fill in the name, text, date and signatures, add your logo, and download a PDF or PNG. Paste a list to make one page per name.
• Printable Calendar: Pick a month or a whole year, add your logo, a banner photo or a picture for each month, and download the calendar as a PDF.

Grades and marking

• Grade Calculator: Work out a weighted course grade, or the score you need on the final. Runs on your device.
• Final Grade Calculator: Find the score you need on the final exam to reach a target grade, with a table for 90, 80, 70 and 60 and a what-if score.
• Test Grade Calculator: Percent score and letter grade from the number wrong, with a chart for every possible score. Runs on your device.
• Percentage Calculator: Five percentage calculators with the working shown. Runs on your device.

About these tools

This page is for teachers, tutors and anyone who runs a room of learners. It does not list every tool on the site. It lists the ones that fit a lesson: a way to call on students fairly, to split a class into groups, to run a timer on the board, to hand out practice, and to mark a test.

The main tool is the Wheel of Names: press its Classroom mode button for the version made for lessons. You save a class list once and it stays in your browser on that device. You can mark a student absent today and the wheel skips them. Everyone once gives each student one turn per round before it starts a new round. A private tally counts picks and exports as a CSV file, Groups split the class into teams, and the projector view fills the screen so the back row can read it. The classroom page has no ads, no analytics and no cookie banner.

The other tools work the same way on any page of this site: no account, and the lists you type are handled in your browser tab. Random Name Picker draws several students at once, Team Maker and Random Pairs build groups, Seating Chart sets rows, and the countdown, interval timer and stopwatch keep the right time in a background tab. Quizzes and practice pages need no sign-up. Printables such as worksheets, graph paper, bingo cards and certificates are made on your device as a PDF or PNG.

School IT and privacy teams can read exactly what each page loads, and the hosts to allow, on the Schools page, linked at the foot of every page. Pages outside the classroom wheel can carry ads or analytics, so check that page before you put it on a school network.

Frequently asked questions

Do students need an account or a sign-in?

No. None of these tools has accounts, so students never log in and nobody gives an email address. Open the page and use it. In the classroom wheel you can save up to 50 class lists of up to 500 names each, and they stay in the browser on that device.

Are my students' names uploaded or stored anywhere?

Names you type or paste stay in your browser. Saved class lists are kept in local storage on that device and are not sent to a Yolo Picker server, and the classroom page contacts 1 host, yolopicker.com. A share link keeps the names after the # in the address, which a browser does not send to any server. Forget all in the wheel deletes every saved list and tally from that device.

Can I show it on a projector or smart board?

Yes. The Wheel of Names has a projector view that fills the screen, and a clicker can spin it with the presenter keys. The bingo caller shows a large current call and the last 5 calls, which read from the back of a room.

Does it work on school Chromebooks and tablets?

These are ordinary web pages with nothing to install, so a current Chrome, Safari, Edge or Firefox opens them. We have not tested every Chromebook or tablet model, and a school filter can block a site. The classroom wheel needs only 1 host, yolopicker.com, and the Schools page lists the hosts for every page.

Are there ads on these pages?

Not on the classroom Wheel of Names page, which also has no analytics and no cookie banner. Other pages on the site may show ads or use analytics, and the Schools page says which hosts each page contacts. If you need a page with no third-party scripts, use the classroom page, which loads from 1 host.

Is the random pick fair?

Yes. The winner is chosen by your browser's crypto random generator before the wheel starts to move, so the animation changes nothing. Everyone once mode gives every student 1 turn per round before anyone gets a second.