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Most name pickers draw with replacement, which means the same child can come up three times in ten while another is never chosen at all. That destroys the only real reason to use one — the class can see it is fair.
This picks without replacement. Every name comes out once before any name comes out twice, and when the round is finished the list reshuffles itself automatically. The count of who is left shows on screen, so the fairness is visible rather than claimed.
The round survives a reload, because a projector that goes to sleep or a tab that gets closed should not put four children back in the hat.
Mark someone absent on the register and the picker leaves them out. When they are back, tap the name again. The class list itself never changes, so a week of absences does not slowly destroy your roster.
This is the join that makes one shared class list worth having: mark the register once and the picker, the group maker and the seating chart all know.
The name is set at eleven per cent of the viewport height, which stays readable from the back of a long room. Presentation mode strips the toolbar and goes full-screen — worth using, because a browser’s tab strip and bookmarks bar eat the top fifth of a 768-pixel projector.
The draw animation is deliberately brief. Six seconds of spinning multiplied by ten picks is a minute of lesson gone, and slow wheels are the most common complaint about the popular versions.
Not until everyone has had a turn. It draws without replacement and reshuffles automatically once the list is exhausted, and the number still to be picked is shown on screen.
Yes. Mark them on the register and every tool on the site skips them. Their name stays in your class list.
No. It is saved in your browser and shared across all the tools. There is no account, and nothing is sent anywhere.