Free classroom tool
Wheel of Names
Type your class in, press spin, and it picks somebody at random. Free, no sign-up, and the names never leave your device - the wheel runs entirely in your browser and nothing is sent to us.
Spin to choose
Class wheel
Who has been picked (0)
Wheel contents
Edit the wheel
One name per line. The wheel splits evenly between them and each gets its own colour.
Name an entry after a colour — like magenta or teal — and that wedge is drawn in it.
Colour names you can use (0)
Click any colour to add it to the wheel.
How to use the wheel of names
Press Edit wheel and paste your class list, one name per line. Spin with the button or the space bar. After each spin you can keep that person on the wheel or take them off.
Turn on No repeats and everybody gets a turn before anyone comes up twice - already-picked names dim on the wheel, and "Start a new round" puts everyone back in. There is a running list of who has been picked, for when a child tells you they never get chosen.
Silly mode
Switch it on and the wheel starts messing about - it creeps almost to a stop and jumps back three names, roars off again just as it is settling, or slams to a halt with a "BRAKES!". Eight different tricks. The draw is still completely random: the winner is decided before the wheel moves, so the joke only changes the journey.
Tired of typing your class in every time?
This wheel forgets your class the moment you close it, because it never knew who they were. Teacher Daybook keeps your roster, so the wheel is already full of your actual students - and so is your seating plan, your accountability sheet and your weekly plan. Built by a teacher at an intermediate school in Auckland.