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Sign in on your classes page with Google, Microsoft or an email code, type a class name like "Year 7 Geography" and press Create. You get a class code straight away.

Want to look around first? Open a demo class has made-up students and three weeks of results, and it doesn't count towards your plan.

Make a class

Press Show on board so the class code fills the screen, and let students join. Then open a ready-made quiz and press Host live game. That's ten minutes, and you'll have results for every student by the end.

The guide has a full first-lesson plan.

Read the guide

Yes. There's a free 15-minute lesson for each region of the world, plus one on look-alike flags. Each has a starter, a quiz you can set in one click, flags to discuss, a plenary, homework and a printable worksheet with answers.

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Any phone, tablet, Chromebook or laptop with a web browser. There's nothing to install. The live game and race board go on your classroom screen through your normal browser.

Yes. Open a demo class on your classes page. You can also open the join page on your own phone and join your class as a test student, then remove them afterwards.

Students go to school.flagflash.com/join, type the class code and their first name. No email address, no password, no account.

Copy join link gives you a link with the code already filled in, for your class page or Google Classroom.

Yes. On your setup checklist, or at /teachers/print, print a join poster for your classroom wall. It has a QR code that opens the join page with your class code already filled in. The same page has a ready-made letter for parents and carers.

Yes. On the Students tab, press Add from register and paste one name per line, or Fill in from Google Classroom. Each name waits for the student who joins with it.

To stop anyone else joining, untick the option to let in other names.

Open the student on the Students tab and press Let rejoin. They can join again with the same name and keep all their results.

Press Remove next to the student on the Students tab. Their results go too.

Yes. Students can turn on High contrast and Read aloud (which reads the answer choices and each flag's name) from their class page.

For a student who needs more time, open them on the Students tab and set Time on each flag to extra or double time.

When you set a quiz, Match difficulty to each student slows things down for students who are struggling and speeds them up for those who aren't.

Yes. In a class's Settings, choose the language students see: English, Spanish, French, German or Portuguese. Country names, quizzes, live games and certificates change. Capital cities keep their English names.

Open a class, go to Quizzes and choose where the flags come from (the whole world, a region, flags you pick, or each student's own mistakes), the difficulty and how many flags. Press Set quiz and it appears for every student.

Yes. Under Students answer with, pick the country's name, its capital city, or where it is on the map.

Tick Set as homework and give a due date. Students can retry as often as they like before then and their best score counts. The class page shows who hasn't done it, and so does your Monday email.

Choose Each student's own mistakes under Flags from. Every student gets the flags they've got wrong so far, topped up with well-known flags if they've missed only a few.

Turn on Set a review quiz every Monday in a class's Settings. Each Monday, Flag Flash sets a homework quiz on the 10 flags the class missed most in the last four weeks, due the following Monday. It skips weeks when there isn't enough to review.

Yes. Type it under Your own objective (for example "Unit 3: Europe") when you set the quiz. It shows on results and reports.

Open a quiz and press Host live game, with your screen on the board. Students join from their devices, you start the countdown, and each flag flashes up. A leaderboard shows after every flag and a podium at the end.

Yes. In the live game lobby, pick 2 teams, 3 teams or 4 teams. Students are shared out evenly and the board shows team scores. Teams are a good idea if you'd rather nobody comes last.

The race board lets students play a quiz at their own pace while the board shows everyone racing to the finish. It's good for mixed-ability classes and fast finishers.

In a live game lobby, press Battle another class and give the code to another teacher. Their class presses Join the battle. Both classes get the same flags at the same time, and points are averaged per player so a small class can beat a big one. It works between schools too.

Flag of the day on a class page opens a warm-up screen for the board: one flag, four choices and a few facts when you reveal the answer. It picks from the flags your class finds hardest, and changes every day.

Each quiz on a class page shows every student's score as they finish, and the flags the class found hardest. Click a student on the Students tab for their progress over time.

Yes. Print student reports on the Students tab prints one page for each student, with their scores, progress and the flags they find hardest. You can also print one student's report from their sheet. Print report at the top of a class prints a summary of the whole class.

Yes. Open a student on the Students tab and press Make a link for parents. Anyone with the link sees that student's quizzes, homework and badges, but nothing about other students. No sign-in is needed, and you can turn the link off at any time.

With Teacher Pro, Download results (CSV) on the Students tab gives you every result, ready for Excel or Google Sheets.

On Mondays when your classes have been busy, you get one short email: last week's quizzes and practice, who hasn't handed in homework, the hardest flags, and a quiz to set next. You can turn it off from the link at the bottom of any email.

Yes. On the Students tab, press Add from register, then Fill in from Google Classroom and pick the class. Flag Flash asks Google for your class list only, once.

Yes. On a quiz, press Send scores to Google Classroom. Each student's percentage goes in as their grade out of 100, matched by name to your Google Classroom list. Students who don't match are listed so you can check them.

Set a number of flags in a class's Settings, like 500. Everything students get right in quizzes and practice counts towards it, Monday to Sunday, and the class sees how close they are.

Students earn badges (like Flag spotter for 100 flags right) and can print a certificate for each one. They also earn a coin for every flag they get right, and spend coins on a new look for the class board.

Yes. Students can practise from their class page whenever they like. Practice counts towards badges, coins and the class goal, and keeps their daily streak going.

Champions are the teachers who use Flag Flash most. It's free: you get new features first, your help requests jump the queue, and you help decide what we build next. When you qualify, an invitation appears on your classes page.

About champions

Schools with a school license can run a class tournament each term. Every class taking part earns points from the flags its students get right, and the school dashboard shows the table.

Yes. In a class's Settings, press Share and add your colleague's email. They see results, set quizzes and host games with their own sign-in.

Archive class in Settings keeps every result but frees the class's place on your plan, and students can't join it any more. You can restore it later. Delete class removes everything and can't be undone.

From August to November, your classes page offers to Archive last year's classes in one click. Every result is kept, their places on your plan are freed, and you can restore any of them later. Then make a class for each group you teach this year.

Yes. Pick your language at the bottom of your classes page. It's separate from the language your students see.

3 classes of up to 40 students, live games, the race board, quizzes, homework and results. Nothing you've made disappears if you reach the limit.

Up to 30 classes of 60 students and downloadable results. Upgrade from your classes page, and cancel any time from Manage billing.

See plans

Copy your invite link from your classes page and send it to a colleague. When they make their first class, you both get a month of Teacher Pro free.

Yes. A school license gives every teacher with your school's email Teacher Pro, and a school dashboard. Pay by card online, or by invoice or purchase order.

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Only the first name a student types and their quiz results. No email addresses, no photos, no tracking for adverts. Nothing is shown publicly: leaderboards stay inside your class.

Remove the student from the Students tab, or delete the whole class from Settings. It's gone straight away.

Yes, for school and district licenses. Ask for it with a quote, or read the privacy page.

Privacy

Check they're on school.flagflash.com/join, not the game's main page. Codes never use 0, 1, i, l or o, so a student who types one of those has misread a letter. If you've archived the class, restore it first, and check you haven't reached your plan's student limit.

Ask them to refresh the page. They stay signed in to the class, so they can carry on from the next flag. If school Wi-Fi is slow, the race board copes better than a live game.

Ask your IT team to allow school.flagflash.com and flagflash.com. Nothing needs installing, and there are no adverts or outside trackers to unblock.

Press ? Help at the bottom of any teacher page and type your question. We'll see which page and class you were on, so you don't have to explain, and a real person replies by email. You can also email hey@flagflash.com.

Check your spam or junk folder, and ask IT to allow email from flagflash.com. You can also sign in with Google or Microsoft instead of an email code.