Wayground

What Wayground is

Wayground is the K-12 teaching platform that used to be called Quizizz. Its About page says the name changed from Quizizz to Wayground while the commitment to educators stayed the same, and the site footer names the company as Quizizz Inc., doing business as Wayground. It is built for teachers who want to run quizzes, assessments, interactive presentations, videos and flashcards from one library, and for school and district administrators who want common assessments, reporting and rostering on top. The plans page calls it "The K-12 platform for assessments, presentations, videos, flashcards, AI, and accommodations". The About page lists its headquarters in Santa Monica, California, with further offices in New York and Bengaluru, and says the platform is used in over 150 countries. The homepage puts its reach as "Trusted by teachers in 90% of U.S. schools and 150+ countries."

Quizzes and assessments

The quiz maker is where most teachers start. The quiz maker page lists 15 question types, among them Match the Following, Multiple Choice, Fill in the Blanks, Hotspot, Labeling, Reorder, Graphing, Audio Response and Video Response, and questions can carry images, videos, graphs, audio clips, GIFs and equations. The plans page counts them differently: the free Basic plan has a limited set of question types, and the School and District plan opens "All 20+ question types". Open-ended questions, polls, drag and drop, drop-down blanks and drawing responses are among the formats the quiz maker page describes.

Teachers can write questions from scratch, import quizzes from spreadsheets or Google Forms, or pull from a community library that the quiz maker page puts at over 30M quizzes and lessons. A quiz is hosted in one of several modes the page names (Live, Homework, Team, Test and Paper Mode), and students join through a shared link, a class assignment or a join code. Responses are graded automatically and land in a Reports section with individual and class performance and progress across attempts; answers that call for higher-order thinking can be graded by hand.

The homepage frames the same questions two ways: "Run every assessment as a competitive game or a serious exam. Same questions, different stakes." The game side keeps the power-ups, music, themes and memes the quiz maker page mentions. The exam side adds lockdown mode, tab-switching alerts and academic integrity reports, and state test question types are built in so classes can, in the homepage's words, "practice in October, not the week before the test".

Presentations, homework, videos and flashcards

Beyond quizzes, the library holds interactive slides, passages with question sets, homework and videos. A teacher can drop a quick check into any slide, run the presentation live or send it to an absent student to take at their own pace, and the homepage says slides translate as you teach so multilingual students keep up with the class. Videos, the teacher's own or one found online, can take embedded questions; AI finds the pause points and writes questions for them, and the teacher then sees who watched, who skipped and who got it. Assessments, presentations and homework convert into flashcards automatically, so a question written for Monday's homework can return as a flashcard on Wednesday and an exit ticket on Friday.

AI tools

Wayground AI generates a full activity from a topic, document, standard or upload, and a Chrome extension builds activities from other pages. The smaller edits matter as much: translating a homework page, adding a real-world scenario or leveling a passage, which the homepage describes as the edits you would never make by hand that take three seconds. The AI page says Wayground AI "combines GPT-5 with millions of classroom-tested activities," and it lists response analysis that shows why students missed questions, remediation suggestions, and parent updates "that sound like you, not a robot." Its privacy line reads "Teacher-only access. Zero student data in AI training."

Separate generators cover presentations, questions, rubrics, lesson plans, weekly lesson plans, worksheets and math problems. The unit plan generator, which the site says teachers can use for free, takes a grade from kindergarten to university, a unit length of 5 to 30 days, a topic and any objectives or standards, and returns a day-by-day plan with activities, assessment methods and resources that exports as a PDF or an editable DOC.

Accommodations

Accommodations are built into every activity rather than added as a separate tool. The plans page lists "25+ accommodations, including Read Aloud" even on the free plan, and the homepage names read-aloud, translation, dyslexia-friendly fonts, leveled text and focus mode, which carry over from class to homework. On the school plan, special education teams can set accommodations centrally and pull performance and compliance reports for their caseloads from synced roster data.

Plans and pricing

The plans page shows two plans. Basic is "Free for every teacher, forever. No credit card, no commitment." It covers assessments, presentations, passages, flashcards and videos, live and student-paced delivery, the AI tools, the accommodations and live instruction data through Classroom Pulse. The comparison table sets its limits: 100 students, a maximum of 20 stored activities, limited question types and limited Google Classroom sync.

School and District is sold by quote and can be paid by purchase order, check, credit card or ACH transfer. It adds all question types, unlimited storage and students, 40M+ standards-aligned resources, full AI grading with custom and state rubrics, longitudinal growth graphs, an admin dashboard with school and district insights, common assessments, Canvas, Schoology, Clever and ClassLink integrations, and a dedicated Customer Success Manager. The Wayground Original Library item bank, district-wide benchmark assessments, state test and screener data import, and on-demand virtual and in-person professional development are listed as add-ons. The FAQ says a school plan can be bought with ESSER, EANS and Title I funds on the strength of the ESSA Level 3 evidence, and that teachers who paid out of pocket for a Wayground Super upgrade during the current academic year are fully reimbursed when their school buys a plan. The site gives no price for Super or the school plan. Organizations outside K-12 are pointed to separate Corporate Plans, which the plans page says startups, nonprofits and Fortune 500 companies use.

Integrations and privacy

The integrations page lists Clever, ClassLink, Google Classroom, Canvas, Schoology and Microsoft Teams. Students sign in once through their existing accounts, rosters sync from Clever, ClassLink or Google, activities embed in Canvas, Schoology or Google Classroom through LTI (the plans table specifies LTI 1.3 for Canvas and Schoology), and grades flow back to the LMS gradebook. SSO works with Google, Microsoft, Clever and ClassLink. When a district's student information system adds or removes a student, Wayground updates access on its own, and Common Assessments break results down by subgroup such as ELL, IEP, grade and cohort. The same page states "Wayground is FERPA and COPPA compliant" and links to a privacy center.

Research and reach

The homepage reports ESSA Level 3 correlation evidence in math and ELA, tied to teachers who run 30+ formative questions a week. The plans page says the platform is trusted by 3,000+ schools and districts nationwide and names districts such as Pinellas County, Arlington ISD and Indianapolis Public Schools, and the older quiz maker page claims use by 50 million+ people around the world. One teacher testimonial on the homepage shows how far some take it: "I have actually taught an entire geometry class exclusively using Wayground because of the ability to use it for in-class as well as homework activities."

Who it suits

Wayground fits a classroom teacher who wants gamified quizzes and practical AI help without paying, since the free plan covers up to 100 students and the full set of accommodations. It suits special education coordinators and district leaders who need consistent accommodations, common assessments and rostering across schools, and it is shaped around a US K-12 context, from state test question types to federal funding eligibility. The limits sit on the free side: 20 stored activities and limited Google Classroom sync, with Canvas and Schoology reserved for the school plan, mean a teacher with a large question bank or a school on another LMS will end up asking for a quote. Corporate trainers can reach it through the separate business plans, but the product and its library are built for schools.