Students scan a code and speak their take — on an exhibit, a lecture, a screening, a field trip. You get their words back as transcripts, sentiment, live results, a private grading view, and even a short audio recap you can play in class.
Written reflections get skimmed and rushed. Speaking is faster, more honest, and more natural — especially in a gallery, an auditorium, or out in the field. Spokn lets a student hold up their phone, answer your prompt in their own voice in under a minute, and move on. Behind the scenes, every response is transcribed and analyzed, so you get a readable record of what your whole class thought — not a stack of forms to grade one by one.
There's no app for students to download. It runs in the phone's browser from a code or link you hand out. You configure everything up front; students just talk.
Use the form below to tell us the activity, your prompts, and the options you want (presence check, consent, grading link, and so on). We set it up and send back a code, a link, and a printable QR.
At the exhibit or in the room, students open the code and see your prompt — they can even tap to hear it read aloud. They record a short voice answer right in the browser. Different stations can show different prompts.
As students answer, you can show live results on a screen — sentiment, top themes, and any poll votes — building in real time. Great for sparking discussion before everyone leaves.
Afterward you get a private, read-only link to every clip with its transcript and summary, filterable by class or section — plus, if you want it, a short audio recap of the class's responses to play next session.
Mix and match — a simple exhibit reflection can use just the first one; a graded field trip might use most of them.
Students record a short spoken answer (you set the length, e.g. 15–60 seconds) directly in their phone browser. Every response is automatically transcribed and given an AI summary and a sentiment read, so you can skim a whole class in minutes.
Give each location its own question. Print a different QR for each room, exhibit, or stop — a student at "Room A" is asked about Room A, a student at "Station 3" about Station 3. One event, many prompts, all flowing into the same report.
A "listen" button reads the prompt out loud. Helpful in noisy spaces, for accessibility, and for language learners who benefit from hearing the question as well as reading it.
Ask students to pick or enter a tag — their course, section, or your name — so your class's clips are cleanly separated from any other visitors. Your grading view can then filter down to just your section.
If attendance matters, require that a response is submitted from the venue. A location check confirms the student was physically there — useful when the reflection is part of a graded, in-person activity, and much harder to fake than a screenshot.
Put a live board on the projector: a sentiment bar, the themes coming up most, and optional quick polls students can vote in from their phones. It turns a quiet visit into a shared, visible conversation.
Let students add a photo of what they're reacting to, or a short video, alongside their voice answer — handy for "capture the piece that moved you" style activities.
A secure, read-only page just for you: every student's clip with its transcript, summary, and sentiment, filterable by class tag. Nothing to install, easy to grade from, and it can't be edited or seen by students or the public.
We can turn your class's responses into a short, podcast-style audio recap — a conversational summary of what the class thought, the standout ideas, and where opinions split. Play it at the start of the next session to kick off discussion. You just tell us you want it; we produce it from the responses and send you the audio.
Each gallery has its own QR and prompt. Students speak a reflection at three stops; presence check confirms they toured the space. You grade from the private link, filtered to your section.
A single code on the closing slide. Responses stream to a live board you show before dismissing — then an audio recap opens the next class.
Students answer by voice right after; a quick poll captures the room's split, and themes surface what resonated.
Voice plus an optional photo of the spot. Presence verification ties each reflection to the location for a graded, in-person assignment.
We know student data is different. Spokn is designed so an instructor activity can run without exposing students, and so you and your institution stay in control: consent first, never shown publicly, voice not kept long-term, anonymous by default, and never sold.
FERPA note: because responses tied to your class can be education records, we treat consent and access as institution-directed. Tell us your requirements in the request and we'll configure to match. Full terms at usespokn.app/Terms and privacy policy.
Every event is reviewed and set up by our team — so it's done right and your students are protected. Fill this in and we'll follow up by email to confirm, tweak, or ask anything we need.