What is Tikroo?

The quick tour — what a Roo is, what activities are, and how a live session works from host to phone.

Tikroo is a tool for running live, interactive sessions — quizzes, polls, word clouds, games and content — that everyone in the room joins from their own phone. There's nothing to install: players open a link, type a PIN, and they're in.

A "Roo" is your board

The thing you build in Tikroo is called a Roo. Think of it as one interactive board that holds everything for a session — every question, poll, game and content screen, in the order you want to run them.

You'll see this word throughout the app: My Roos is your library, and Create a Roo starts a new one.

Activities are what's inside

Each screen inside a Roo is an activity. An activity might be:

  • a quiz question that scores players,
  • a poll or word cloud that gathers opinions,
  • a game like Wheel, Rocket Race or Bamboozle,
  • or a content screen — text, an image, a video, or an embedded presentation — to set up what comes next.

You mix and match activities in a single Roo, then run them one after another.

How a live session works

  1. You build a Roo by adding and arranging activities.
  2. You present it — Tikroo shows a join screen with a PIN.
  3. Players go to tikroo.com/join, enter the PIN, and pick a nickname.
  4. You move through activities at your own pace. Players answer on their phones; results appear live on the shared screen.

That's the whole loop. The rest of this help centre goes deeper on each part — start with Create your first Roo.