Free QR codes for teachers and classrooms

QR codes save class time: students scan a worksheet and land on the video, the reading or the audio, with no long links to type. On ovbq, fixed codes are free, need no account, and have no limit. Here's how teachers use them, and when an editable code helps.

Free codes for worksheets and handouts

Make a code on our home page for any link: a video, a reading, an audio clip, a practice quiz. Download it and drop it into your worksheet. Fixed codes are free and unlimited, need no account and no email, and never expire. They hold the link itself, so scanning one never touches ovbq. Nothing is tracked.

If the link is to a shared file, such as a Google Doc, set it so anyone with the link can view it, or students will see a sign-in page.

Classroom ideas

• Stations: a code at each table opens that station's task or video.
• Scavenger hunts: codes around the room or the school, each opening the next clue.
• Reading corners: a code inside a book cover opens an author interview or an audiobook sample.
• Parent letters: a code that opens your class wishlist, the field trip form or the supply list.
• Back-to-school night: a code at the door that opens your class page.
• Language practice: a code beside a word list opens a recording of how each word sounds.

Editable codes for links that change each term

Some links change: next term's class page, this month's sign-up form, the newest newsletter. Put an editable code on the classroom door or the parent handout, and change where it goes each term. The printed sign stays the same. A free account includes 2 editable codes.

Need a sign-up sheet or a quiz? Make it in your school's own form tool, and point the code at it. See QR codes for surveys and forms.

Students' privacy

Fixed codes aren't tracked at all. Editable codes count scans, and note the time and the kind of phone or tablet. We never record a name, and we don't store IP addresses. Nobody, including you, can see which student scanned. Accounts are for adults: you need to be 18 or older to sign up.

Size: posters versus worksheets

• A worksheet or handout is scanned in the hand, so the code itself needs at least 1.2 in (3 cm).
• A poster on the wall, scanned from about 6 ft (1.8 m), needs at least 7.1 in (18 cm).
• On a projector screen, make it big and give students time. Scan it yourself from the back row first.

Print dark on light, keep the plain border, and test one copy before you print a class set.

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