Wayground (formerly Quizizz)

Wayground (formerly Quizizz) is an AI-supported platform for creating and delivering supplemental learning activities. It best suits teachers who want quizzes, lessons and other practice in one place, for live sessions or independent work. Its range of formats and teaching modes is useful, but the free plan’s 20-resource ceiling may push frequent creators toward a paid subscription.

Overview

Wayground brings instruction, practice and assessment together: teachers can build activities, assign them asynchronously or host them live, and review assessment analytics. Its mix of formats makes it a broader teaching tool than a quiz-only service, while the Starter plan’s resource cap constrains how much a teacher can keep stored there.

Teachers can share work by link and use listed integrations with Google Classroom, Canvas, Schoology, Microsoft Teams, Blackboard, Moodle, Brightspace and Toddle. The School & District plan also lists Clever and ClassLink for rostering, which makes that tier more relevant to institution-wide deployment.

Key features

Activity creation

Teachers can create Assessments/Quizzes, Lessons, Passages, Flashcards and Interactive Videos with more than 18 question types. Wayground AI can generate assessments from prompts, documents, webpage links, curricula, YouTube videos and uploaded images. That range gives teachers several routes from existing material to an activity, although the free Starter plan stores only up to 20 resources.

Delivery and learner support

Live sessions and asynchronous assignments accommodate both whole-class teaching and independent practice. Paper Mode, Mastery Peak and Test mode add delivery choices; accommodations include extra time, Read Aloud and reduced answer choices, and teachers can create differentiated assessment versions. Mixed grading modes, a question bank, live polling, quiz mode and assessment analytics round out the assessment features.

Starter allows up to 100 participants per session, while Individual raises that ceiling to 1,000. The larger limit is useful for bigger groups, but those who need more than Starter’s 20 stored resources must weigh the annual Individual cost against their library needs.

Security and support

Wayground says it has achieved ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certification and describes access controls, encryption, incident management, audits and employee training. Its extension deployment guide says data in transit is encrypted with TLS and that generated content is not used to train third-party AI models. The support center gives a median ticket response time under six hours and provides email support at [email protected].

Pricing

Wayground uses a freemium model. Starter (Basic) costs nothing and includes up to 20 activities, up to 100 participants per session and limited library access. It is a sensible starting point for smaller-scale use, but the storage and library limits matter to teachers building a growing collection; features may also differ by region.

Individual (Super) costs $18 a month (billed billed annually $216 per year) and includes unlimited storage, up to 1,000 participants per session and a 7-day free trial. It suits teachers who need a larger resource library or routinely host bigger groups. The annual billing term is important when comparing it with a free plan.

The School & District Plan has custom pricing. It includes unlimited students, school- or district-wide reporting and a dedicated Customer Success Manager, making it the institutional option rather than a per-teacher library upgrade.

Platforms

Wayground runs in a browser on Android, iOS/Mac, Windows and Linux, and Student and Teacher apps are available from the App Store and Play Store. The platform also lists an extension. This spread supports use across common desktop and mobile environments.

Who it's for

Wayground is a strong fit for teachers who want to create varied assessment and practice materials, differentiate work and switch between live instruction and asynchronous assignments. It is less compelling for a teacher who needs a large free resource library, or for someone whose required features differ by region. Schools and districts that need unlimited students and broader reporting have a separate institutional plan.

Pros and cons

• Multiple activity formats: Quizzes, lessons, passages, flashcards and interactive videos support more than one kind of practice.
• Flexible creation and delivery: AI can draw on several source types, while live, asynchronous, Paper Mode, Mastery Peak and Test mode give teachers alternatives for delivery.
• Meaningful differentiation: Extra time, Read Aloud, reduced answer choices and differentiated assessment versions address varied learner needs.
• Free plan has tight storage: Starter’s 20-resource limit and limited library access can impede teachers building a reusable collection.
• Regional variation: Starter features may differ by region, so it may not provide the same fit everywhere.
• Paid Individual is annual-billed: The $18.00 USD monthly figure is tied to annual billing, a commitment to consider against the free tier.

Alternatives

For broader Automated Grading Software, compare the category with Wayground’s mixed grading and assessment tools. For a more assessment-focused shortlist, see Assessment Software; for live teaching and participation, browse Interactive Classroom Software or Student Response Systems.

• MATLAB Grader is a free option for MATLAB license holders; LMS integration requires a qualifying academic license.
• PrairieLearn is open-source and can be run or modified on an institution’s or individual’s own infrastructure.
• Socrative may suit a teacher who can work within its free plan’s five quizzes, one room, 50 students per activity and 30-day report history.
• Gradescope offers a free Basic plan with dynamic rubrics, question-by-question grading, assignment statistics, regrade requests and data export.
• ZipGrade is an option for paper-based workflows: its free plan covers 100 papers per month with unlimited quizzes, students and classes.
• CodeGrade may suit coding-course assessment, with a free plan for up to 50 students per course and drag-and-drop autograding.
• Formative offers a free teacher plan with unlimited activity creation, basic auto-grading, basic integrations and released state test items.
• MyOpenMath is free at any scale for standard teacher and school use, with no student charges.

Verdict

Choose Wayground if you want one platform for varied learning activities, AI-assisted assessment creation, differentiated delivery and both live and asynchronous teaching. Its strongest case is the combination of formats and teaching modes; look elsewhere if Starter’s 20-resource limit is too restrictive and an annual $216 Individual subscription is not justified, or if regional feature differences affect your classroom.