Group Quiz for engaging classroom starters

If you haven’t put Group Quiz up in your classroom lately, here is your quick refresher on why it’s one of the highest-impact, zero-prep tools at your fingertips.

Key takeaways

Group Quiz is a zero-prep tool that uses Tassomai’s live student data to highlight high-value topics and challenging questions for your class.
Group Quiz supports active classroom dialogue with mini-whiteboard activities, low-stakes cold calling, and national benchmark comparisons.
The upcoming 'Do Now' feature will provide a structured settler task at the start of Group Quiz to aid lesson entry routines.
Group Quiz can be used as a starter, plenary, revision session or cover work, accessible from your Tassomai Teacher Dashboard.
Group Quiz saves teachers time by eliminating the need to build quizzes from scratch and aligns questions with what students nationally find challenging.

Group Quiz is a zero-prep tool that uses Tassomai’s live student data to highlight high-value topics and challenging questions for your class.
Group Quiz supports active classroom dialogue with mini-whiteboard activities, low-stakes cold calling, and national benchmark comparisons.
The upcoming 'Do Now' feature will provide a structured settler task at the start of Group Quiz to aid lesson entry routines.
Group Quiz can be used as a starter, plenary, revision session or cover work, accessible from your Tassomai Teacher Dashboard.
Group Quiz saves teachers time by eliminating the need to build quizzes from scratch and aligns questions with what students nationally find challenging.

retrieval practice in classrooms

How Group Quiz supports effective lesson starters

Illustrations of a teacher leading a 'Group Quiz' with pupils and a student completing 'Class Tasks' on a laptop

Every teacher understands the power of a settled, purposeful start to a lesson with dedicated lesson starters becoming an essential pedagogical routine across UK schools. Grounded in cognitive science short bursts of daily retrieval practice consolidate knowledge into long-term memory, address misconceptions early, and activate schema before moving to new learning.

Yet, designing differentiated, syllabus-aligned retrieval starters day after day eats into precious planning time.

time-saving technology

How Group Quiz saves teachers time with zero slide-building

While Tassomai is renowned for independent practice, Group Quiz brings that intelligent data engine directly to the front of your classroom.

Instead of scouring through past papers or building PowerPoint quizzes from scratch, Group Quiz leverages live student usage data. In a matter of a few clicks, Tassomai highlights high-value topics and automatically prioritises the questions your students find most challenging compared to national peers.

While Tassomai is renowned for independent practice, Group Quiz brings that intelligent data engine directly to the front of your classroom.

Instead of scouring through past papers or building PowerPoint quizzes from scratch, Group Quiz leverages live student usage data. In a matter of a few clicks, Tassomai highlights high-value topics and automatically prioritises the questions your students find most challenging compared to national peers.

classroom engagement

How Group Quiz creates high-impact classroom dialogue

Group Quiz transforms passive quizzing into dynamic formative assessment:

Mini-Whiteboard Ready: Project a question, give think-time, and ask for "3, 2, 1... show me." It's an instant check for whole-class understanding[.
Low-Stakes Cold Calling: Your dashboard shows you which students recently tackled the question (and how they answered) alongside those who haven’t seen it yet giving you the perfect diagnostic prompt to cold-call.
National Benchmarks: Reveal live national average accuracy to celebrate wins, normalize tricky topics, and unpick why a tempting distractor caught out so many students nationwide.
Daily Goal Credit: Students stay motivated knowing their classroom participation counts towards their Daily Goals.

Group Quiz transforms passive quizzing into dynamic formative assessment:

Mini-Whiteboard Ready: Project a question, give think-time, and ask for "3, 2, 1... show me." It's an instant check for whole-class understanding[.
Low-Stakes Cold Calling: Your dashboard shows you which students recently tackled the question (and how they answered) alongside those who haven’t seen it yet giving you the perfect diagnostic prompt to cold-call.
National Benchmarks: Reveal live national average accuracy to celebrate wins, normalize tricky topics, and unpick why a tempting distractor caught out so many students nationwide.
Daily Goal Credit: Students stay motivated knowing their classroom participation counts towards their Daily Goals.

new features

What the upcoming 'Do Now' activity will add to Group Quiz

We are constantly looking for ways to streamline your lesson transitions and support calm, consistent classroom habits. That’s why we’re currently exploring the addition of a dedicated 'Do Now' starter activity at the very beginning of each Group Quiz.

The concept is simple: a structured settler task that is ready to go as your pupils walk through the door. It will give you the headspace to welcome students at the threshold and complete the register, while giving pupils an immediate, focused task that seamlessly rolls into your main Group Quiz discussion.

We’re excited about how this will make entry routines even smoother, watch this space as we develop it further!

We are constantly looking for ways to streamline your lesson transitions and support calm, consistent classroom habits. That’s why we’re currently exploring the addition of a dedicated 'Do Now' starter activity at the very beginning of each Group Quiz.

The concept is simple: a structured settler task that is ready to go as your pupils walk through the door. It will give you the headspace to welcome students at the threshold and complete the register, while giving pupils an immediate, focused task that seamlessly rolls into your main Group Quiz discussion.

We’re excited about how this will make entry routines even smoother, watch this space as we develop it further!

getting started

How to launch Group Quiz in your classroom this week

Whether you need a punchy starter, an evidence-based plenary, a targeted revision session, or reliable cover work that maintains academic rigour, Group Quiz is waiting on your Teacher Dashboard.

Bypass the starter-slide planning this week: log in, pick a smart recommendation, and put Group Quiz on the board.

Frequently asked questions

Group Quiz eliminates the need to build PowerPoint quizzes or search for past papers from scratch. It taps directly into Tassomai’s intelligent data engine to automatically pull together high-value, syllabus-aligned questions based on what your students—and their national peers—are currently finding most challenging. In just a few clicks, your retrieval starter is ready to project.

Absolutely! Group Quiz is designed to support high-impact, low-prep formative assessment routines. You can project a question for quick mini-whiteboard "show me" checks, or use the live dashboard data to facilitate low-stakes cold-calling by seeing which students have previously mastered or struggled with the topic.

We’re currently exploring a dedicated 'Do Now' settler task that will sit at the very start of each Group Quiz. It’s designed to run automatically as students enter the room—giving them an immediate, purposeful retrieval activity while giving you the headspace to greet pupils at the door and complete the register. It’s currently in development, so keep an eye out for updates on your Teacher Dashboard!