Workshopy vs ClassPoint
A ClassPoint alternative for hands-on lessons
ClassPoint is a PowerPoint add-in for Windows: the teacher presents their slides as usual and adds live questions — multiple choice, word cloud, short answer, drawing on a slide — along with pens, whiteboards, a name picker, and stars, levels and leaderboards students collect across a term. Workshopy is not a presentation tool: each student works through the lesson's steps on their own screen and presses Done or Need help, and the teacher sees who is working, done or stuck on every step and gets a report of where the class got stuck. Choose ClassPoint when your lesson is a PowerPoint deck taught from the front of the room. Choose Workshopy when students do practical work and finish at different times.
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Two different products
ClassPoint
An add-in for PowerPoint on Windows, made by Inknoe: the teacher presents from their slides, adds live questions and annotation tools, and keeps the class engaged with stars, levels and leaderboards.
Workshopy
A lesson runtime in the browser: one Markdown document becomes a live class where each student works through the steps on their own screen, and the teacher sees each one's progress, answers help requests and gets a report.
Side by side
| Workshopy | ClassPoint | |
|---|---|---|
| Built for | Hands-on lessons: classrooms, bootcamps, corporate training, technical sessions | Teachers and trainers who present from PowerPoint, in schools, universities and companies |
| What the teacher needs | A browser on any computer — Windows, Mac or Chromebook | Desktop PowerPoint on Windows; a presenter in the browser, for other computers, has been announced |
| Who controls the pace | Your choice per class: students roam with look ahead and look back, or follow your step; Bring everyone regroups them | The presenter — students answer the slide on screen |
| What the teacher sees live | Each student's step and status — working, done or asking for help — and who is taking longer than the class | Who has answered the current question, and their answers; answers can be added to the deck as slides |
| Students asking for help | Need help with a note, a help queue taken oldest first, and private messages to the teacher | Live Q&A on its top plan: questions the whole class sees and upvotes |
| Activities | Polls, "got it" check-ins, graded quiz steps, practice exercises students check, and interactive blocks students play with | Broad: multiple choice, word cloud, short answer, slide drawing, image, audio and video answers, fill in the blanks, quick polls, Quiz mode |
| Presenting | A projector view with the join code, the class's step and how many are done; a timer on every screen | Strong: pens, spotlight, whiteboards, timer, random name picker and draggable objects on the slide |
| Gamification | None — quizzes are graded, not ranked | Stars, levels, badges and leaderboards that carry over in saved classes |
| Code and technical material | Code blocks with syntax highlighting and a copy button; a step can ask students to paste what their program printed and checks it | Not a focus — a lesson holds what a PowerPoint slide can |
| Joining | 6-character code or link, no account, any device | A class code at classpoint.app or a QR code, no account; a saved class keeps a list of names |
| After the class | A report per class — who finished each step, where they got stuck, how long they waited, polls and quizzes — and a page students keep with the lesson | Class reports in its web app and Excel reports for Quiz mode |
Compiled from each product’s public documentation. Deliberately no price comparison — published prices change without notice and a stale number here would be worse than none. Check both pricing pages.
Which one to use
Choose Workshopy when
- Students do practical work — code, data, a tool — and finish at different times.
- You need to see who is stuck on which step, not only who answered the last question.
- You don't teach from PowerPoint on Windows, or you want the lesson as text you own.
- You want students to keep the lesson and reread it after class.
Choose ClassPoint when
- Your lessons are PowerPoint decks you present from a Windows PC.
- You want quick checks inside your slides: word clouds, drawing on a slide, image and audio answers.
- Stars, levels and leaderboards keep your class motivated across a term.
- You use pens, whiteboards and a name picker while you present.
Frequently asked questions
Is Workshopy a ClassPoint alternative?
For hands-on lessons, yes: each student works through the steps on their own screen and you see who is working, done or stuck. For interactive PowerPoint presentations, no — Workshopy has no slides, no annotation pens and no stars or leaderboards.
Does Workshopy work with PowerPoint?
No. There is no add-in and Workshopy doesn't open slide files. The lesson is a document of steps you write in Workshopy's editor or import as Markdown. You can still show slides beside it, and Present puts the class's current step on the projector.
Do students need accounts?
Not in either tool. Workshopy students join with a 6-character code or a link and type a name; ClassPoint students enter a class code at classpoint.app, and a saved class asks for the name the teacher registered.
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