Quizizz izz now Wayground
A popular edtech platform has rebranded as it leans into AI.
One of the biggest names in edtech announced Tuesday that it is changing its name. Quizizz is now Wayground. The company said in a press release that the name is designed to reflect their growth from a quiz tool to a broader supplemental learning platform.
“Over the past ten years, teacher feedback has transformed a simple formative assessment tool into a destination for teachers to browse, bring, or build any instructional resource and quickly deliver it to students,” said Ankit Gupta, the company’s founder and chief executive, in the press release.
The rebranding comes at a time when the company has leaned into differentiation, adding tools like translation, difficulty adjustments, and a dyslexia font. For instance, when teachers go to start a live quiz, they are now met with a screen offering personalized accommodations.
Wund also announced a number of new tools for the 2025-2026 school year. They include:
Curriculum alignment tools to locate resources mapped to standards and curricula.
Lesson bundles designed to streamline planning.
A flexible AI generation hub that allows teachers to transform materials into multiple interactive formats.
Expanded accommodations.
VoyageMath, a middle school-focused math program with individualized tools.
My Take
I have used Quizizz regularly in my Social Studies classes, and as a result I was asked to join their Ambassador program. (I get an upgrade in exchange for keeping them and others in the loop about ways to use the platform. They even were kind enough to send me a t-shirt with their new name.)
When I first started using the platform several years ago, my students liked it because it had funny memes and ways for players to interact with each other, such as glitching everyone else’s screen for 10 seconds. Those meme and gamification components connected with students in ways I did not anticipate. Quizizz was ahead of the game.
However, what I like about Quizizz/Wayground now is the way they’ve expanded their tools. The platform empowers you to differentiate easily and it also makes it easier to translate your own materials into interactive activities.
That last part is key for me. Most of the time when I search edtech platforms for materials created by other users, I end up needing to make adjustments to fit the needs of my students and curriculum. I usually prefer to take my own materials and use them as the basis for formative assessments, study tools, etc. The problem is that manually building quizzes and study tools can take a lot of time. You can use AI, but if the AI is bad or counterintuitive, it ends up taking more time than if you’d simply built it from scratch. Also, different students like different study strategies. Translating study materials into a variety of different formats is incredibly time consuming.
What Quizizz has done well is make it easy to bring your own materials and quickly create a suite of differentiated tools to help your students. To be clear, as with anything AI, it’s not yet perfect. However, it has crossed that critical threshold of truly saving time. In other words, if you use their AI generation tools, you’ll spend less time than if you had made it manually, even if you have to spend a small amount of time adjusting the finished product.
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