🎯 Random Name Picker for the Classroom

How to use it

1. 1. Add your names

   Replace the sample names with your own, one per line. You can paste a column straight from a spreadsheet or a class list.

2. 2. Choose whether names can repeat

   Leave the box ticked to give every student one turn before the list starts over. Untick it when the same student may be picked again, for example for quick-fire questions.

3. 3. Press Pick a name

   The name appears in large letters. The list of names already picked grows underneath, so you can see who has had a turn. Start again clears it.

Ideas for class and home

• Cold calling without the worry

  Students know the choice is random, so nobody feels singled out. Give thinking time first, then pick, and allow a "phone a friend" pass once a lesson.

• Classroom jobs

  Pick the line leader, the paper monitor and the board cleaner in ten seconds on Monday morning. With no repeats ticked, jobs go round the whole class over the weeks.

• Who goes first

  Use it to choose the first reader, the first group to present or the first player in a game. It ends arguments about whose turn it is.

• At home with siblings

  Put the children's names in and let the picker decide who chooses the read-aloud book or who sets the table tonight.