Ask the whole class, including the students thinking in another language
Write the question once. Every student answers on their own phone, either in the language they think in or in the one you are teaching, and the room sees one set of results. You decide which, per session.
No app for students · No student accounts · Free plan to start with
Before we start: how confident are you with last week's material?
28 of 30 answered · 3 languages
How confident are you with last week's material?
Quelle est votre aisance avec la matière de la semaine dernière ?
ما مدى ثقتك بمادة الأسبوع الماضي؟
One question on the projector. Three students, three languages, one set of bars.
Asking the class to respond in one language turns a comprehension check into a language test.
Every teacher knows the pattern. The same four students answer, the rest of the room goes quiet, and the silence gets read as "they understood" when often it means "I know the answer, but not in this language, and not out loud, in front of thirty people".
Running a second poll in the other language splits the group and leaves you two numbers you cannot add. One question, every student answering in the language they think in, one set of results. What you measure is whether the material landed, not who is fluent enough to say so.
Two kinds of classroom, one setting apart
Which languages a session offers is a list of tick boxes in the editor. That list is what separates these two rooms.
You are teaching the language
Set the session to the language you teach and untick the rest. With one language there is nothing to switch between, so the picker never appears: the whole room reads the question in that language and answers in it. A word cloud then shows you what twenty-five students actually reach for, in ten seconds, instead of four raised hands. A wrong ending costs nothing, because nobody hears it.
Your class does not share a language
Tick every language in the room instead. Each student reads the question and answers in their own, the answers are translated back, and the class sees one combined result rather than one count per language. Same question, same bar chart, no second poll to run.
What it changes in a classroom
Four things that matter more in a multilingual group than in a monolingual one.
Language stops filtering who answers
Each student picks their language when they join. A student still building academic English answers a comprehension question in their own language and is counted the same as everyone else.
Anonymous, with one switch
Name collection is on by default. Turn it off in the session settings and answers carry no name at all. That is usually the point in a classroom: it separates "I do not know" from "I do not want to be wrong in front of thirty people".
Nothing to install, nothing to get approved
A six-digit code or a QR code on the slide. Any phone browser, no app, no student account, nothing for the school or the faculty to clear with IT before the first class.
Written answers you can actually read
Open-text answers are translated, so a comment written in another language appears on the screen with the rest, and a word cloud groups the same idea into one term instead of four.
Six places a poll earns its minute
The same six work in a classroom of 25 and in a lecture hall.
A guide written for a primary classroom
Five pages in French: the first session step by step, the nine question types with what to do with each one in class, and twelve questions ready to copy.
Guide pour l'enseignement primaire
Written for teachers of roughly 6 to 12 year olds, and only in French so far. Everything in it was checked against the product rather than described from memory.
What it costs
Free to start. Paid when the class is bigger or you poll every week.
Limits and prices change, so the site keeps them on one page instead of repeating them everywhere. That page is the current one.
Know moreIs Nabad only for multilingual rooms?
No. Nabad is your all-in-one: one tool for every room you run.
One language
- Runs in your language, nothing to set up
- Your audience never sees a language menu
- Every question type: polls, word clouds, rankings, Q&A
More than one
- Everyone joins in their own language, automatically
- Open answers are translated live as they arrive
- One screen of results for the whole room
Questions teachers ask
The seven that come up before the first lesson.
Is Nabad only for multilingual rooms?
No. You choose how many languages a session runs in. Pick one and untick the rest, and there is nothing to switch between, so the language picker never appears. The day the room is not all one language, you turn the others on and everyone reads and answers in their own.
How do I poll a class where students speak different first languages?
Write the question once. Each student picks their own language when they join on their phone, reads the question in that language and answers in it. The class sees one combined result rather than a separate count per language, so the poll measures understanding rather than language confidence.
Do students need an account or an app?
No. They open any phone browser, enter a six-digit code or scan a QR code, and answer. There is no app to install, no account to create and nothing for a school to approve on their devices.
Are student answers anonymous?
They can be, with one switch. Name collection is on by default, so turn it off in the session settings before your first question and answers carry no name at all. That is usually what you want in a class, because the students least likely to raise a hand are often the ones working in a second language.
Can I read what a student wrote in another language?
Yes. Open-text answers are translated, so a comment written in another language is readable on the classroom screen alongside the rest, and word clouds group the same idea into one term instead of four.
Is Nabad free for teachers?
There is a free plan, with no credit card, for groups of up to 30 people, as often as you like. A class of more than 30 needs a paid plan. The limits and the prices live on the pricing page and only there, because they change.
I teach a language. Should the class answer in it, or in their own?
That is one setting, and you can change it between sessions. Leave only the language you teach ticked and the whole room works in it, which is practice. Tick the languages your students actually speak and you find out whether the grammar point landed, which is a different question. Some teachers run both: the drill in the target language, the "did that make sense" check in theirs.
What can I actually ask with it?
Nine question types: multiple choice, word cloud, open text, Q&A with upvotes, ranked choice, scale, star rating, group formation, and Random pick, which draws a name from the room.
Try it on one class
Set up a question before your next lesson and see who answers when the language stops being the barrier.