Everything ISArts Quiz does

🏆 What it is

Three screens working together, and nothing to install.

• The control room is yours. You start rounds, reveal questions, mark answers and award points.
• The big screen faces the room: the question, the countdown, the scores, and the podium at the end.
• The captain’s phone belongs to each team. One phone per team, answering together.

📱 What you need

• A laptop for yourself, with the control room open.
• A screen the room can see; a projector or a large TV, showing the public screen.
• One phone per team, on the venue’s wifi or mobile data.
• Nothing else. No installs, no dongles, no special equipment.

✎ Building a quiz

Write it once, run it as often as you like.

• Build rounds and questions in the browser, or paste a whole quiz in as plain text and let it be parsed.
• Save quizzes to reuse; a quiz is the content, a night is one run of it.
• Add pictures for picture rounds, and give every round its own name.
• Set the venue, the join code and the quiz name so the big screen reads properly.

📜 Rounds and questions

• Question rounds are the usual thing: a question, teams answer, you mark them.
• Picture questions show an image on the big screen and on the phones. Mark the question [IMG] when you import the quiz, then open Saved quizzes and press Pictures on that quiz to upload a photo for each one.
• Zooming a picture. On the Pictures page, drag a box over the part of the photo you want the room to puzzle over. They answer from that detail alone, and the whole picture opens out when you reveal the answer. Leave the box alone and the whole picture shows from the start.
• Either/or questions give two choices to tap between.
• Presentation rounds have no answers at all; they are slides you reveal one at a time. Ideal for a bonus round, announcements or the best team name.
• Questions can be worth whole or half points, revealed one by one at your own pace.

🎤 Running the night

• Open the lobby and teams scan a QR code or type the join code.
• Set a start time and the big screen counts down to it, or start whenever you are ready.
• Latecomers are easy; put the sign-up screen back up at any point.
• One clear button always shows what comes next, so you never hunt for the right control.
• Break notices, a clock and the scoreboard can all go up while you get a drink.

👤 Team captains

• Each team picks a name, a captain and an emoji, or types their own.
• The phone shows the current question and a box to answer in; answers save as they type.
• A captain can hand the phone to a teammate with a handover code, so nobody is stuck holding it.
• They can call you over from their phone, and it appears in your control room.

⏱ Answer timing

Every answer is timed, from the question appearing to the moment they commit.

• See who has answered and how quickly, live, while the round runs.
• The fastest answer to each question is flagged when you come to mark it.
• Each team’s total answering time is kept for the whole night, which makes a fair tie-break.
• Editing an answer does not reset the clock, so nobody is punished for fixing a spelling.

✅ Marking

• Obvious matches are marked for you; you decide the rest.
• Award full, half or no points, per team and per question.
• Reveal the answer to the room one question at a time, watching the scores move.
• Turn the running scoreboard off while you mark, so the room is not watching every change.
• Go back and change a mark at any point; the scores follow.

⭐ Bonus points

• Award or dock points at any moment, for any reason: best team name, a good heckle, a forfeit.
• Type a reason and the big screen announces it: the team, the points and why.
• Half points throughout, so a tie-break is rarely brutal.
• Every award is recorded with its time and reason on the night’s record.

📺 The big screen

• Thirteen colour themes and nine animated backgrounds, changed on the fly.
• Question, countdown, scoreboard, podium, and a thank-you screen with up to three QR codes.
• A clock in the corner, as a banner or full screen, alongside any notice.
• Pens-down warnings at five or ten seconds, on the screen and every phone at once.
• Zoom controls, so it reads properly from the back of the room.

💀 Sudden death

For a dead heat, at any point in the night.

• Pick the tied teams, send a tie-break question, and watch a clock count up in tenths.
• Each team’s clock stops the moment their answer lands, so the fastest is beyond argument.
• The winner is settled by placing, not points, so they can never leapfrog a team that finished above them.
• The night cannot be finished while any of the top three places is still shared.

🎉 Finishing the night

• Reveal the podium from third upward, one place at a time or all at once.
• Name a prize for each place and it appears as that place is revealed.
• Finish on a thank-you screen with your own message and QR codes for socials, a group chat or a feedback form.

🔒 Keeping it fair

Gentle signals, not accusations.

• Question text cannot be selected or copied on a phone; trying gets a cheeky message.
• You are told, quietly, if a phone leaves the answer screen mid-question or tries to copy.
• Sign-ups can be locked once everyone is in.

📄 Records and proof

• When you end a night its results are frozen and stored, with a reference that certifies the figures.
• A full answer record: every team, every question they were asked, what they put, when the question went on screen, how long they took to reply, what it scored, and whether they changed their mind. When somebody asks afterwards, you can show them.
• Every bonus point with its reason and the time it was given, listed under the team that received it.
• A full timeline: when each round ran, every bonus and why, the tie-break and who won it, all to the second.
• Reopen any past night and print or save its sheet as a PDF.
• Because it is sealed the moment you finish, nobody can claim the numbers were changed afterwards.

✉ Request an account

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