For teachers

anonymous Q&A in your classroom

Turn raised-hand silence into a room full of questions. TA pilot docks next to your Google Slides, your students scan a QR, and participation doubles by the end of the first class.

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What you run into today

The specific friction we hear about.

The same 3 confident students ask all the questions, while the rest stay silent
Shy or ESL students can't articulate their question in real time
You lose the flow of the lecture every time you stop to check chat
Pre-loaded clicker polls feel rigid — you skip them when the class takes a different direction
International students miss key concepts because captions are only in the lecture language

How TA pilot helps

Features that map onto each pain.

Anonymous Q&A with upvotes

Students scan a QR on your slide and ask questions from their phone. Upvotes surface what the whole class is confused about, not just what the vocal students think.

Photo-attached questions

A student stuck on slide 14 can tap the camera icon, snap the slide, and type “I don't get this.” You see exactly where they're confused — no need for them to articulate it.

Voice-triggered formative assessment

Say “who got C on this problem?” — Gemini turns the sentence into a live poll and you see the class's answers in two seconds. Formative assessment without clickers.

Live captions in 20 languages

International students can enable captions in their native language on their own phone. You lecture in English; their caption stream is in Mandarin, Korean, or Spanish.

Countdown timers for exercises

Say “work on this for 4 minutes” and a visible timer hits the screen. Students know when the exercise ends; you stay honest with your pacing.

A concrete workflow

Your first session, end to end.

1
Install TA pilot on the device you use for lecturing (takes 30 seconds from the Chrome Web Store).
2
Before class, click + Create New Session in the sidebar. Title auto-fills from your open Slides tab. Pick a password and the language your class speaks.
3
Drop the QR code onto your opening slide. Students scan as they settle in — within 2 minutes, the whole class is connected.
4
Throughout the lecture, keep an eye on the sidebar. Answer the top-voted question every 10 minutes. Run a voice poll at transition moments (“quick check: everyone got this?”).
5
At the end, the sidebar shows a list of unanswered questions for post-class follow-up. Session data auto-deletes 36 hours later.

Common questions

What skeptics ask.

Won't anonymous Q&A just invite trolling?

You have one-tap dismiss on any inappropriate question. In 18 months of university use, the rate of trolling has been under 0.5% of all questions. Anonymity lowers friction for sincere questions far more than it enables bad ones.

How does this work for remote/hybrid classes?

Identical flow. Students on Zoom or Meet scan the QR from their phone (a second device), just like students in the room. Upvotes and inline screenshots work for both groups in the same queue.

Can I award participation credit?

Default is fully anonymous (no student ID is stored). If you need graded participation, pair TA pilot with a separate opt-in attendance tool — or count number of unique askers at semester end.

The specific friction we hear about.

Features that map onto each pain.

Your first session, end to end.

What skeptics ask.

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