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Pulse Check: know who got it before the bell rings.

Pulse Check is a teacher-driven digital exit ticket. Load your class roster from Smart Lists, mark each student Got It, Need Review, or Lost from one device in about 30 seconds, and get an instant comprehension dashboard with a concrete suggestion for tomorrow's lesson. No student phones, logins, or paper slips.

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Period 2 · Quadratic Equations24 of 28 marked
Maya C.🟢🟡🔴
Diego R.🟢🟡🔴
Aisha N.🟢🟡🔴
Liam P.🟢🟡🔴
🟢 Got It 61%🟡 Review 25%🔴 Lost 14%

The exit-ticket problem

Paper exit tickets tell you who was lost — the next morning, after the moment to act has passed.

The classic exit slip works, but the workflow fights you: hand out paper, collect it at the door, read a stack of half-legible notes at home, and only then discover that a third of the class never understood the lesson. App-based alternatives push the problem onto students instead — every check-in becomes a device hunt, a join code, and five minutes of "it won't load" in a school that restricts phones anyway.

Pulse Check inverts the model: the teacher is the input device. You already know, from the lesson you just taught, roughly where each student landed. Pulse Check turns that judgment into structured data in the time it takes the class to pack up — and gives it back to you as a decision, not a pile of slips.

The Pulse Check approach

Pulse Check is a three-tap-per-student comprehension check: 🟢 Got It, 🟡 Need Review, 🔴 Lost, with an optional note for anything worth following up.

Start a session by naming the lesson topic — say, Quadratic Equations — and optionally a comprehension prompt like "What should we review tomorrow?". Your roster appears as a checklist. Tap a color per student, type a quick note where it matters ("confused the discriminant with the vertex"), and end the session. That's the entire workflow.

Because the roster comes straight from Smart Lists, there is no re-typing names, and because the check is teacher-driven, it works identically in a phones-banned classroom, a computer lab, or a gym. Every session is saved, so a mid-class interruption never loses your marks.

What the dashboard tells you

Ending a Pulse Check produces an instant dashboard: counts and percentages for each comprehension level, named student columns, a visual split bar, and a suggested next action for tomorrow's lesson.

Comprehension at a glance

Four live metrics — Got It, Need Review, Lost, and No Response — each with a percentage and a color bar, so the shape of the class registers in one look.

Names, not just numbers

Students are grouped into named columns by their response. You see exactly who is lost — the difference between "reteach everything" and "pull three students aside".

A suggested next action

Pulse Check reads the split and recommends a move: reteach the core concept if most of the class is lost, pull a small support group if only a few are, or open tomorrow with a 5-minute review if many are wobbly.

Suggested peer groups

On Power plans, the dashboard pairs each struggling student with a classmate who got it as a designated tutor — ready-made study groups built from today's actual comprehension data.

Built on your Smart Lists roster

Pulse Check runs on the class roster you already keep in Smart Lists — launch it with one click from a saved list, and save results back as per-student history.

Open any saved roster in Smart Lists and hit the Pulse Check button: the full class carries over instantly, names, tags, and groups intact. Pro educators can also pick any saved list from a dropdown inside Pulse Check itself, so switching from Period 2 to Period 5 between bells is one selection, not a re-import.

The integration runs both ways. On the Power plan, Save to Smart Lists writes each student's result — date, topic, response, and note — back into their roster record as a running pulse history. Over a semester that becomes a per-student comprehension timeline you can consult before parent conferences, when forming balanced teams, or when deciding who needs intervention. Re-saving the same session is safe: it updates rather than duplicates.

From weak spots to a review quiz

When a Pulse Check shows the class needs another pass, the Generate Review Quiz action hands your lesson topic to NeuralRun Quizzes and builds a source-grounded review quiz in seconds.

This closes the loop most exit-ticket tools leave open. Knowing that 40% of the class needs review is a diagnosis; the review material is still on you. From the Pulse Check dashboard, Power educators tap one button and land in NeuralRun Quizzes with the lesson topic pre-filled — the engine generates citable, source-grounded questions you can run as tomorrow's warm-up.

From there the rest of the educator suite takes over: refine and print the quiz as a handout in Mind Prints, or attach it to your Smart Lists roster and send it to the whole class. Teach, pulse, review, re-check — one platform carries the full cycle.

How Pulse Check works

A full Pulse Check is three steps: load a roster, mark the class, act on the dashboard.

  1. Load your roster.
    Launch from a saved Smart List — one click, no name-typing. Enter the lesson topic and an optional comprehension prompt.
  2. Mark the class.
    Tap 🟢 / 🟡 / 🔴 per student as they pack up, adding a note where something needs follow-up. About 30 seconds for a full class.
  3. Act on the results.
    Read the suggested action, copy or export the summary, save per-student history to Smart Lists, or spin up an AI review quiz for tomorrow.

What each plan unlocks

Free educator accounts run complete Pulse Checks; paid tiers add exports, history, and the deeper Smart Lists and AI quiz integrations.

Free

Run a full Pulse Check on a roster launched from Smart Lists, mark every student with notes, view the complete dashboard with the suggested action, and copy a formatted text summary for your records or a colleague.

Neural Pro

Everything in Free, plus CSV export of every session (one row per student with response, note, and timestamp), session history to reopen any past dashboard, and the in-app roster picker for switching between saved Smart Lists.

Power User

Everything in Pro, plus Save to Smart Lists per-student pulse history, suggested peer-tutoring groups on the dashboard, and one-tap AI review quizzes generated from the lesson topic in NeuralRun Quizzes.

Pulse Check FAQ

What is Pulse Check?

Pulse Check is a teacher-driven digital exit ticket inside NeuralRun. The teacher marks each student Got It, Need Review, or Lost from one device, then sees an instant comprehension dashboard with a suggested next action. Students never need phones, logins, or apps.

Do students need devices or accounts?

No. Pulse Check is designed for classrooms where student devices are restricted. The teacher runs the whole check from a single device — tapping through the roster takes about 30 seconds.

How does Pulse Check work with Smart Lists?

Pulse Check runs on your saved Smart Lists roster. Launch it from the Pulse Check button in Smart Lists, or pick any saved list from inside Pulse Check. On Power plans, results save back to each student's Smart Lists record as a running pulse history.

Can Pulse Check generate a review quiz?

Yes. The Generate Review Quiz action hands your lesson topic to NeuralRun Quizzes, which builds a source-grounded review quiz you can edit, play, or print. This is a Power-tier feature.

Is Pulse Check free?

Yes. Free educator accounts run complete Pulse Checks and copy the summary. CSV export and session history are Pro features; saving results to Smart Lists and AI review quizzes are Power features.

Run your first Pulse Check after tomorrow's lesson.

Free tier, no student devices, no paper slips. Your roster is one Smart Lists paste away.

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