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Raise Hand
Every question gets its turn.
How do you teach?
In a group, the loudest students get answered and the quiet ones stop asking. Raise Hand lets students raise a hand without interrupting, and you answer them in the order hands went up.
In small-group tutoring, the same student always gets in first. A raised-hand queue lets every student ask without interrupting, and you answer in order.
In an online class, unmuting to interrupt feels rude, so quiet students never ask. They raise a hand, join the queue, and you answer in the order hands went up.
In a large virtual training, people talk over each other or don’t speak at all. Participants raise a hand, and you take questions in a fair order.
In the room, students raise real hands. When they’re working on their own devices in a Space, a raised-hand queue tells you who asked first, so nobody gets skipped.
In the room, people raise real hands. When participants are heads-down on laptops, they can raise a hand in the Space, and you see the order without scanning the room.
If your child is quiet in online group classes, raising a hand on screen is an easy way to ask without interrupting anyone.
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What it solves
- Quiet students, and the tutor talks most
- Too shy to interrupt and ask
Helps you
Teach better
Part of
Group teaching
The problem
The loudest students get all the answers
In group lessons, students who interrupt get help first. Quieter students wait, give up or never ask, and the teacher may not notice who is left behind.
The usual way
Teachers rely on whoever unmutes first or scan a gallery for real hands. Questions get missed and answered out of order.
How Pencil Spaces solves it
Students raise a hand without interrupting, and teachers manage questions with a raised-hand queue, answering them in the order hands went up.
What changes
Every student gets heard. Quieter students ask questions too, and teachers answer them in a fair order.
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What it looks like
In practice
Three students raise a hand during an explanation. The teacher finishes her point, then answers them in the order they asked.
In a 1:1 lesson
In a group of four, a quiet student raises a hand while another is talking. You see her in the queue and come to her next.
In a group class
Five hands go up after you explain the homework. You work through the queue in order, and the student who asked first doesn’t get skipped.
In a virtual training
During a policy walkthrough, eight participants raise hands. You finish the section, then take questions from the queue in order.
In your classroom
Students work through a problem set on Chromebooks. Three raise a hand in the Space, and you visit them in the order they asked.
In the training room
Teams work on laptops. Two raise a hand in the Space, and you go to the first one while the second keeps working.
At home
Your daughter is nervous to unmute in her online class. She raises a hand on screen, and her teacher calls on her next.
