For teachers
One QR Code on the Board. The Whole Class Joins.
Eleven free tools a teacher can run from the classroom PC. Six are live: students scan once, type a nickname, and take part from whatever they have. Five run on your own screen with nothing to join. No student accounts, no app, nothing kept after the lesson.
No student data
Any phone, tablet or laptop
Board mode for the projector
Gone after the lesson
Photosynthesis 🌱
Plants make sugar
Needs sunlight
Chlorophyll?
Gives off oxygen
Roots take water
Thirty seconds before the bell
Open a room, put the QR on the board, teach
- No class list to upload and no codes to hand out
- Every student posts under a nickname, in their own color
- Copy the board into your planner, then it erases itself
A lesson that uses the set
Starter, groups, check, exit ticket.
One worked example. Swap the topic for yours; the shape fits most fifty-minute lessons.
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Starter: what do you already know?
Open a classroom, pin the topic, switch to board mode. The class fills the board in two minutes and you see the misconceptions before you teach. Put the timer on for the two minutes.
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02
Groups in one tap
Start a team room, students scan, you choose five groups, press Shuffle. Each phone lights up with its group. Share the task sheet as a QR note so nobody types a link.
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Check and exit ticket
Spin the wheel to pick who presents. Then a one-question poll on the key idea, and "one thing you learned today" back on the classroom board. Copy the board into your planner before you leave.
In the room or remote
QR for the room, a link for Google Classroom.
In the classroom
- Tap Board mode. The QR grows so the back row can scan it with a phone camera.
- Students pick a nickname and are in. No codes to read out.
- One device per table also works for group work.
Remote or hybrid
- Tap Copy link next to the QR and paste it into the Google Classroom stream or a Teams channel.
- Students tap the link and join the same room from home.
- The link dies with the room, so nothing stays live after the lesson.
Safeguarding
Designed around the things teachers worry about.
01No student data
Nicknames only. No emails, no accounts, no sign-ups. Nothing to register with the school and nothing to delete later.
02Links stay hidden
A pasted link shows up blurred and only opens after a caution card. Names, poll questions and answers cannot contain links at all. You can remove any message with one tap.
03A brake on the flood
Posting is rate-limited so nobody can machine-gun the board, and freezing it gives you the floor instantly.
04You hold the room
Only you can pin, remove, freeze, add a password or close the room. Students never see each other’s devices or anything beyond the nickname they chose.
05Works on whatever they have
Phones, tablets, school laptops. Any browser. Up to 200 devices in one room.
06Cleans up after itself
Tap Copy all for your notes. The room erases itself after 6 quiet hours, 24 at most, so there’s no forgotten class chat living on.
Do students need an account, an app or an email address?
No. Students point their phone camera at the QR code on the projector, or tap a link you post, and the room opens in their browser. They type a nickname and take part. Any phone, tablet or school laptop.
What student data does Quick Note Share keep?
Only the nickname a student types, and only while the room exists. Rooms erase themselves after 6 hours of inactivity, 24 hours at the latest. Nothing to register with the school and nothing to delete afterwards.
Can I post the room link in Google Classroom instead of using the QR code?
Yes. Every room has a short link next to its QR code. Tap Copy link and paste it into the Classroom stream or a Teams channel. Students tap it and join the same room.
How do I stop students posting links or flooding the board?
Pasted links show up blurred and only open after a caution card. Posting is rate-limited, you can remove any message with one tap, and freezing the board stops everyone except you from posting.
How many students can join?
Up to 200 devices in a classroom room, a poll, a group generator, a name wheel or a class card, so a full lecture theatre fits.
Can I keep what the class wrote?
Yes. Every room has a Copy all or Copy as text button, and the class card downloads as a PDF. Copy before you leave: the room erases itself afterwards.
Is it really free?
Yes. No account, no plan and no device limit to upgrade past. Quick Note Share is an independent project with no ads.
Try it next lesson.
Open a classroom
One QR code. No student accounts. Gone after the lesson.