Deck.Toys vs LessonUp

Deck.Toys is a classroom engagement platform for teachers building interactive lessons for students. Lessons can combine PowerPoint slides, PDFs, videos and activities arranged on a map with connected paths. Teachers can use Study Set questions in self-paced games or multiplayer Arcade games, and collect student text, drawings, photos and uploads on slides. Teacher Sync keeps students with the teacher’s current slide; Free Mode lets them explore at their own pace. The platform tracks student progress in real time and provides classroom reports. Teachers can share classroom URLs through learning platforms including Google Classroom, Microsoft Teams, Canvas, Schoology and SLS. Teachers can register with Google or Microsoft; students can join with those accounts, as guests or with a username and password. It works in Chrome, Safari or Firefox on connected devices including Chromebooks, iPads, laptops and smartphones. Student access to a teacher’s classroom may be free. Pro costs $8 a month, billed annually at US$ 96 billed annually.

LessonUp helps educators find, create, and teach interactive lessons in person or online, with reports and insights into student learning. Activities include multiple-choice questions, polls, drag-and-drop tasks, word clouds, hotspots, spinners, fill-in-the-blanks, and sorting. Teachers can import PowerPoint presentations and add interactive elements such as quizzes, mind maps, and open questions. A lesson library includes material from other educators and content partners. AI tools can assist with lessons, quizzes, rubrics, assignments, images, summaries, glossaries, and translations. LessonUp lists integrations with Canvas, Google Classroom, Microsoft Teams for Education, and itslearning; school plans also list SURFconext SSO. The Free plan saves lesson results and includes some interactive features. Start costs $7 a month per teacher on a yearly subscription and includes VAT; it allows 10 lessons and 20 AI uses monthly. Pro costs $7.99 a month per teacher on a yearly subscription, includes VAT, and allows unlimited lessons and 50 AI uses monthly. LessonUp is available on web, Android, and iOS.