Set your class up once, use it all year
Retyping a class list every lesson is why most teachers abandon a name picker in the second week. Five minutes of setup removes that entirely.
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Load the list in one paste
Copy the name column straight out of your register or spreadsheet and paste it into the Bulk Edit tab — one name per line, no formatting required. A class of thirty takes about ten seconds.
First names are usually enough and keep labels readable on the wheel. Where you have two of the same, an initial is shorter than a surname and just as clear.
Save each class to its own slot
Save the wheel with the class as its name — "8B Maths", "Year 4 Green" — and it reloads in a click. There is room for twenty saved wheels, which covers a full timetable.
Each slot keeps its entries, its title and its settings, so a class you set to auto-remove stays that way.
Track who has actually been picked
The question worth answering is not who was picked today but who has not been picked at all. Your Classes shows each saved class with its roster, how often it has been spun, a per-name count, and a "not yet picked" list.
Spins are attributed to whichever class is loaded, so the record builds up as you teach rather than needing to be kept.
Roster and history both export as CSV if you need them for a participation record or a parents evening.
Moving between devices
Everything is stored in the browser on the device you set it up on. That is what keeps student names off any server — there is no account, and no copy of your class exists anywhere else.
The consequence is that a class set up on the classroom desktop is not on your laptop. Use the Share link to move one: it encodes the whole list in the URL, so opening it on the other device loads the class ready to save there.
Clearing your browser data for the site removes saved classes permanently, so export a roster CSV before wiping a shared machine.
A word on student data
Names typed into the wheel stay in local storage and are never transmitted. Share links are the exception and by design: the entries are encoded into the URL itself, so treat a link containing student names as you would any other document containing them.
The site is ad-supported and makes no claim to formal COPPA or FERPA certification — those are determinations your school makes, not ones a tool can assert on your behalf. First names on a local device is a deliberately low-exposure default, but the judgement is yours.