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Acadly

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Acadly helps educators boost engagement inside and outside the classroom, and record attendance at the tap of a button. It is free for higher education, and saves students thousands of dollars per semester on expensive polling app subscriptions.

Instant one-tap attendance!
Quizzes - embed rich content, select scoring schemes, set deadlines. Go!
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Share content in realtime - videos, files, links, text - assign as classwork or homework

License model

  • FreeProprietary

Application types

Platforms

  • Online
  • Android
  • iPhone
3 / 5 Avg rating (2)
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2comments
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Properties

  1.  Educational

Features

  1. LaTeX icon  Support for LaTeX
  2.  Real time collaboration
  3.  Attendance management
  4.  Word Clouds
  5.  Quizzes
  6.  Live polling
  7.  Q&A
  8.  All in one
  9.  Class Management
  10.  Srs

 Tags

  • attendance
  • poll
  • flipped-classrooms
  • classroom-clickers
  • announcements
  • student-grading
  • active-learning
  • student-management-system
  • automatic-attendance
  • grades
  • assignment-tracker
  • check-in
  • poll-sharing
  • analytics
  • audience-polling
  • Chat
  • audience-response-system
  • Content sharing
  • Classroom Response System
  • quiz-test
  • learning
  • students
  • blended-learning
  • attendance-tracker
  • classroom-polls
  • audience-response
  • Discussion Forum

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Acadly information

  • Developed by

    Acetone Designs
  • Licensing

    Proprietary and Free product.
  • Rating

    Average rating of 3
  • Alternatives

    23 alternatives listed
  • Supported Languages

    • English
    • Portuguese

AlternativeTo Categories

Education & ReferenceRemote Work & EducationSocial & Communications

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  •   Updated May 7, 2025
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Our users have written 2 comments and reviews about Acadly, and it has gotten 9 likes

Acadly was added to AlternativeTo by acadly on Mar 31, 2017 and this page was last updated Oct 28, 2021.

Comments and Reviews

   
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Top Positive Comment
Geek77
Jan 7, 2019
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Good app for class management. It is an LMS on mobile.

Top Negative Comment
trivikrama
Jun 2, 2018
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worst, need to wait for 24hr manual user checks back to stone age

tomploeger
Apr 20, 2019

...in an educational environment, I actually appreciate this kind of service very much. I'm currently waiting for my approval, one day won't hurt me that much. After all their service is free and offers a lot.

What is Acadly?

Acadly is a Classroom Response System that helps instructors engage students inside the classroom and record attendance at the tap of a button. Compare it with the alternatives (table): https://blog.acadly.com/student-response-system-comparison-the-definitive-feature-list-d25f38be5727

Here's the feature set.

  1. Polls, Quizzes, Word Clouds
  • Select deadlines and set post-deadline behaviour (submissions allowed/ not allowed)
  • Turn anonymity on/off for polls
  • Select scoring schemes
  • Unlimited responses for free
  • Randomize questions/ options/ both
  • LaTeX, image and rich text support for questions and answers
  • Built-in messaging threads for all activities
  • Set as pre-class or in-class activities
  • CSV export
  • Website and app based
  1. Instant roll calls
  • Tap a button. Acadly discovers everyone in your proximity.
  • Mesh-network based technology: no GPS errors, no uncertainty.
  • Present means actually present.
  1. Communication
  • Every activity gets dedicated chat channel automatically
  • Support for image, LaTeX and rich text
  • Likes, thanks, deletion
  • Instructor moderation
  • Students can also ask "queries" - anonymously or otherwise
  • All Q&A is social
  • Turn "contribute to consume" on - restricts one from reading the chat till they contribute themselves
  • Assign discussions as in-class or pre-class discussions
  1. Content-sharing
  • Share text, files, videos and URLs with students
  • Built-in digital engagement tracker reports who saw/clicked on your content
  • Set as pre-class preparatory work or for in-class participation
  1. Out-of-class use
  • Send pre-class quizzes, polls, discussions and content
  • Send announcements
  • Push notifications deliver your messages instantly
  1. Other cool stuff
  • Intuitive timeline-based design
  • In-built option for support. Responses within 24 hours.
  • Copy-paste and re-use content between semesters.
  • Archive courses once they end. For your eyes only!

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