Categorise is the drag-and-drop quiz slide for anything that fits into groups: periodic table elements, historical eras, mammal vs reptile, verb vs noun. Audiences sort items into the correct buckets on their phone; the leaderboard scores speed and accuracy live on the big screen. It turns memorising taxonomies into a game people actually want to play.
How Categorise works
Categorise is a single scored slide. Build once, replay across every class or cohort:
- Define your categories and add the items that belong to each one.
- Set a time limit and launch the slide; the join code appears on the presenter view.
- Audiences drag each item into the correct category from their phone.
- The leaderboard reveals the winners, scored on how many were correctly sorted and how fast.
Best for
Categorise fits any subject where the learning objective is "know what belongs where":
- Teachers: biology classification, grammar parts of speech, and historical era sorting.
- Corporate trainers: product-line SKU quizzes, compliance category checks, sales objection sorting.
- Event hosts: themed trivia rounds where categories are the game (movies by decade, songs by genre).
- Onboarding leads: new hire quizzes on team ownership, tool categories, and process phases.
Why teams love Categorise
Categorise beats a standard multiple choice for one specific reason. The drag interaction reveals the mental model:
- Tests deeper understanding: sorting requires knowing why something belongs, not just recognising an answer.
- Visual results: the presenter view shows exactly which items got miscategorised the most.
- Reusable across cohorts: the same slide works for the next class without rebuilding.
- Scored on speed AND accuracy: the leaderboard adds the pressure that keeps quiz momentum up.
Free to build, live to play, and the most fun way to drill any "know your groups" learning goal.