Ask the room.
Then test the class.
Live polls and word clouds for a meeting or a lecture, polls and surveys people answer from a link, and supervised online exams with code questions. One app, on your own EU server.
The presenter view on the big screen. Every word someone sends grows its word in the cloud, and the join code stays in the corner for latecomers.
Four ways to ask
Pick one from the same New menu. They share one list of sessions, which you can file under your workspace's projects and filter by type.
Live Check
Present to a room one question at a time. People join from their phones with a six-digit code and the answers fill the screen as they come in.
Poll
One question behind a link, answered whenever people get to it, and anonymous if you want to share it outside the workspace. In Snacka, type /poll and it lands in the channel.
Form
A survey with several questions on one page, sent as a link. Respondents answer at their own pace and submit everything at once.
Exam
A supervised online exam with a class list, a time limit, code questions that run in the browser, and grading that does most of the work for you.
Phones up,
answers on the screen
Build a few questions, open the presenter view and show the code or the QR code. People join from their phones without an account, and you move through the questions with the arrow keys while the results draw themselves.
Questions that wait
for people's own time
A poll is one question, a form is a whole survey. Both live behind a link that is hard to guess and stay open until you close them, taking up to 1,000 answers by default. Forms and anonymous polls go to customers as easily as to colleagues; a named poll asks people to sign in to the workspace.
Exams
Code questions that run
in the student's browser
Students write real code in the same editor as VS Code, with types and autocomplete, and see it run beside the question as they type. Nothing runs on your server, and a runaway loop cannot freeze the exam.
See the whole room
while they write
Students join with the exam code and pick their name from your class list, no account needed. You watch who is connected, how far each one has come and who keeps leaving the tab.
Students are told before they start what is recorded. Tempa sees what happens in the exam page, never the screen, the camera or anything else on the computer.
Grading
Most of the marking, done
Set your grade levels once and Tempa works out each student's grade from the points. The statistics page shows how every question went, live, with score spreads and which questions turned out hard.
Choice questions, graded on the spot
Single and multiple choice are scored the moment a student hands in. On multiple choice each wrong pick cancels a right one, so ticking every box to be safe costs points.
AI grading on your own account
With the AI app installed, free-text and code answers are graded against your rubric by Reda, on the Claude account the exam's host has connected. The answers go to Anthropic under that account, never through Nordkastell. Without the AI app and a Claude connection, those answers wait ungraded until you grade them by hand.
You have the last word
Every grade can be changed or sent back for grading again, and a grade that failed shows as failed, not as a low score. Export the results as Markdown files, grade offline if you prefer, and import the grades back.
Your questions and their answers,
on your own server
Tempa is €5 a month per workspace, for everyone in it. Answers, results and exam activity stay on your own European server, apart from the answers you send to Claude for grading. Try it in the live playground, no signup.