What is Sessional?
Sessional (sessional.in) is a live classroom app for college professors: polls, quizzes, Q&A, coins and rewards for participation, and lockdown exams on students’ phones.
Not the dictionary word
If you searched for “sessional” you may have found the dictionary meaning: relating to a session, or in universities, a sessional exam or a sessional lecturer. Sessional, the product, takes its name from that idea. It is built around the class session, the hour when a professor and a room of students are together, and what happens to that work after the hour ends.
What professors use it for
- Live activities: polls, quizzes, Quick Ask, Q&A, pulse checks, groups, Random Pick and Extempore, run from a laptop and shown on the projector.
- Exams on students’ own phones: a lockdown mode where leaving the test submits it, attempts must start on the classroom Wi-Fi, and questions are drawn as images.
- Rewards: students earn coins for taking part and spend them on real class perks the professor approves.
- Records: a gradebook, course outcomes and the full history of each class.
- Discussion: class rooms and threads that carry on after the lecture.
Who it is for
Sessional is made for college and university classrooms, especially in India: one professor with a few sections, a department running several courses, or a whole institution with schools and programs. Students need nothing but a phone and their college Google account.
How to try it
Open sessional.in, sign in with your college Google account and create a class. You can run your first poll in a couple of minutes.
Questions people ask
Is Sessional an LMS?
No. Sessional focuses on the live class: participation, activities, exams and discussion. It sits alongside whatever LMS a college already uses.
Do students need to install an app?
No. Students open sessional.in in their phone’s browser and sign in with their college Google account.
What does “sessional” mean?
In general English it means relating to a session. Sessional, at sessional.in, is a classroom app named after the class session.