Deeper learning through discussion.
Parlay is an instructional technology platform that makes it easy for teachers to facilitate, measure, and assess student-driven discussions – in person and online.
Browse thousands of topics.
The Parlay Universe is a library of open discussion topics created by educators from around the Parlay community.
- Browse and bookmark thousands of prompts.
- Publish prompts to your class in a click.
- Curate your own custom content portfolio.
- Follow teachers for new prompt suggestions.
- Connect with other classes around the world.
Facilitate amazing discussions.
Teachers can choose the Online RoundTable for written discussions or the Live RoundTable for verbal discussions.
- Scaffolded to teach the skills of discussion.
- Designed to give every student a voice.
- Fun and engaging ways to build community.
- Encourages students to drive the learning.
- In class, at home, or in a hybrid setting.
Data, assessment, and feedback.
Parlay automatically tracks individual and class-wide participation data from your discussions.
- Class Summaries with data visualizations
- Built-in reflection questions for the class.
- Customizable rubrics for assessment.
- Give personalized feedback to each student.
- Export data to CSV or directly to your LMS.
Discussions work.
Student-driven discussions are a holistic and effective way to achieve many of the most important goals of the modern education system.
When educators actively integrate student-driven discussions into their instruction, they create learning experiences that prepare students for the future.
“Parlay really nails the steps that students need to take to deepen their learning and become complex thinkers.”
– Common Sense Learning
Free Introductory Workshop
Want a hand introducing Parlay to your colleagues?
Have one of our instructional strategists facilitate a free introductory workshop for your school today!
Connected to your tools.
- SSO with Google and Microsoft
- Roster teachers, students, and courses using your school’s SMS and LMS tools.
- Share assignment information and sync assessment data back to your LMS.
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Teacher?
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Administrator?
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