The class screen
A timeline of steps with timings and a running clock, presenter full screen, and control from a clicker, the keyboard or your phone.
Features
Everything for the live class, beside Moodle.
Ludoran is a live-class platform for universities. Lecturers plan and run interactive classes from one screen, students take part on their phones, and staff see early who might need support.
Live classes
Run the whole class from one screen
Plan the class as a sequence of steps, then step through it with Next, a keyboard or a presentation clicker. Students follow on their phones or laptops, with nothing to install.
Join with a code
Students scan a QR code or type the class code. No app and no new password; attendance is recorded as they join.
Polls, word clouds and Q&A
Live polls, word clouds that group matching answers, scales, rankings and open questions. Show results, or hide them until the vote closes.
Activities, one at a time
Break a task into short activities with links and prompts. Reveal each when the room is ready; latecomers catch up.
Quizzes and class games
A game-show quiz on every phone, buzzers, true or false, closest wins and more. Questions can be imported from a CSV.
Help from the side
Run the class from your phone while you walk around, or give a tutor a link to control it.
A recap for everyone
After class, students get what happened with their own answers and notes; anyone who missed it can catch up.
Records without the roll call
Attendance, answers and results are recorded as the class runs, and export as CSV.
Planning against outcomes
Plan the semester around what students should learn
Each week is planned in three parts: before class, in class and after class. Weeks can be ticked against the unit's learning outcomes, so the coverage is visible at a glance.
Unit learning outcomes
Add the unit's outcomes once, tick the ones each week addresses, and see which are covered, and how often, across the semester.
Before and after class
Short prep tasks (read, watch, listen, a quick quiz) and follow-up tasks, with who did what.
Plan once, reuse
Copy a week or a whole plan to another class, start from templates, and move weeks when the calendar changes.
A test run first
Rehearse the class with simulated students and see exactly what they will see on their phones.
Participation and Ludo
Taking part that works for the whole room
Everyone answers on their own device, not just the first hand up. Game elements reward effort and improvement, and chance never decides whether anything is earned.
Fair turns
When one student or group is picked, everyone in the room gets a turn before anyone goes twice.
Questions ahead of time
Students write questions before the step and upvote each other's; the most wanted are waiting when you get there.
Anonymous when it helps
Quizzes can run with nicknames or anonymous names, and students can quietly tag a step to come back to.
Ludo, a companion
Each student has Ludo, a small character they can dress up between activities, never during them. It never dies and never takes anything away.
Coins for effort
Coins come from coming to class, taking part and a capped share of class points. They buy cosmetic items only, with the odds shown, and never touch marks.
Points, badges and MVPs
Points for performance in class, badges for what students achieve, and an MVP at the end of each class. Lecturers can switch scoreboards off.
Early support
See who might need a check-in, weeks earlier
Attendance and taking part usually drop before marks do. Ludoran turns the class's own records into a weekly signal for each student and unit, with plain reasons, so staff can reach out early.
Green, amber or red, with reasons
"Missed 2 of the last 3 classes", "no tasks done since week 4". Measured over recent weeks, never a running total, and on taking part, never on correctness.
A kind check-in in one click
A pre-written, editable message with what the student missed and how to catch up. Mark who has been contacted and add notes.
Students at risk, across units
For the roles a university chooses (such as student support or a unit coordinator): students amber or red in several units, with the reasons per unit.
A feed for Power BI
A read-only weekly feed (CSV or JSON) per student, unit and week, to sit beside the Moodle data a university already reports on.
Open with students
Students are told plainly that staff can see their attendance and participation so they can help, and can download their own signal.
Moodle connection
Beside Moodle, not instead of it
Moodle stays the home of the unit. Ludoran connects as a standard external tool (LTI 1.3), switched on by the university's IT team.
Single sign-on from Moodle
Students and lecturers click Ludoran in their Moodle unit and arrive in the class, already signed in.
Class lists from Moodle
Enrolments come across from Moodle; students who leave the unit are marked withdrawn, with their records kept.
Chosen marks to the gradebook
Attendance, class points or an assessment go to the Moodle gradebook as their own column, only when the lecturer picks them.
Ludoran items in a Moodle week
Place the class, a week or an activity in Moodle from its "Select content" button.
No names, if preferred
Moodle can share no names or emails; students then appear in Ludoran under a codename.
Tested against Moodle 4.5 LTS
Registration, launches, class lists, the gradebook and content placement, end to end.
Privacy and Australian hosting
Built for student data from the start
Universities hold sensitive information about young adults. Ludoran is designed around that, with its data kept in Australia.
Stored in Sydney
The database, sign-in service, files and backups are hosted in Sydney.
No ads, no tracking
Data is never sold or used for advertising, and there are no advertising, analytics or social media cookies.
Protected sign-in
Hashed passwords and PINs, two-step sign-in, separate staff and student access, and an activity log.
Game data stays separate
What students do with Ludo never feeds anything staff see; the support signal comes from teaching records only.
Each level sees what it needs
Lecturers see their classes; wider views are only for the roles a university chooses.
Your data, yours
Lecturers can export, correct or delete class data, and students can download their own.
See it in a class
Read who Ludoran is for, how we handle security and data, or the thinking behind it on the blog.