Class Saathi by TagHive
Comparing hands-up, app quizzing, interactive panels and dedicated clickers on the things that actually differ.
Schools evaluating a classroom response system usually compare four approaches: hands-up or paper, phone or tablet app quizzing, an interactive panel at the front of the room, and a dedicated clicker per student. The right choice comes down to per-student cost, whether every student actually answers, internet dependency and how much setup a lesson needs.
Hands-up costs nothing per student but only shows who volunteers, not who understands; paper quizzes capture every student's answer but only after manual grading, with no live picture during the lesson.
App-based quizzing needs every student to have a phone or tablet plus a working classroom Wi-Fi connection, which raises both device cost and internet dependency, and introduces a general-purpose device as a distraction risk during the lesson.
An interactive panel at the front of the room is built for shared display and annotation, not for capturing an individual response from every student at their own seat — it solves a different classroom problem than a response system.
A dedicated per-student clicker like Class Saathi's connects over Bluetooth straight to the teacher's device, so a class runs with no internet required and no per-student screen to double as a distraction — the app itself lives on the teacher's device, not the student's.
Hands-up needs no setup; paper needs printing and later grading; app quizzing needs devices charged, connected and logged in before the lesson starts; a clicker system needs the receiver and clickers on hand, then runs the same way every time regardless of the school's internet.
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