Keep every class activity on schedule
Give timed activities, presentations, and exams a visible countdown, and let students submit questions without raising a hand or interrupting the lesson.
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Ms. Bennett — Chemistry — Lab Presentation
Top questions
Why does the reaction happen faster with heat?
Will this be on the test?
Classrooms run on a schedule that's easy to lose — a discussion that runs long eats into the next activity, and a presentation without a clock creeps past its slot. asktimer.com gives teachers a live countdown for any timed activity, presenters (including students) a confidence monitor, and a way for students to submit and upvote questions without a raised hand — useful for lectures, student presentations, timed tests, and guest speaker sessions.
How it works
Set up your class activities
Add a timer for each timed activity — a discussion, a student presentation, a test, whatever your lesson plan needs.
Run it from the front of the room
Start, pause, and adjust each timer from one control view without breaking the flow of the lesson.
Let students ask without raising a hand
Students submit questions from their own device and upvote the ones they most want answered.
Live stage timer
Countdown per speaker, host controls, and a confidence monitor your speaker can glance at from the podium.
Audience Q&A, built in
Your audience submits questions and upvotes the ones they care about most, live, from their own phone.
How do you handle rate limiting for votes?
Can we moderate questions before they're shown?
One link each, nothing to install
Host, speaker, and audience each get a simple link. No app downloads, no accounts for anyone but you.
A countdown timer for classrooms helps the whole class track pace, not just the time of day
A wall clock tells you the time, not how much of the activity is left — a visible countdown keeps both you and the class aware of pace without you having to announce it.
Frequently asked questions
How do I keep classroom activities on time?
Set up a countdown for each timed activity — a discussion, a presentation, a test — and run through them from one control view, so the whole class can see time remaining without you announcing it.
What's a good free timer for teachers?
asktimer.com is free to start — a classroom-ready countdown timer plus a written, upvoted question queue, so you don't need a separate stopwatch and a separate way to collect questions.
How can students ask questions without raising their hand?
Students submit questions from their own device and upvote the ones they most want answered, so quieter students get heard just as easily as the ones who'd normally raise a hand first.
Can I use this for student presentations?
Yes — give each student presenter their own timer and a confidence monitor so they can pace themselves, while the rest of the class submits questions for afterward.
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