Ask, with no name attached
Type the thing you did not get. Nothing about you is stored, not even a nickname.
Nobody asks it.
Every subject gets its own board. Ask your professor anonymously, and everyone else says ME TOO with one tap. The professor sees where the lecture lost the room, and how many people it lost.
Stronger colour = more people lost.
What it looks like. One hand goes up. The other twenty-three read as understanding, and the lecture moves on to the next slide.
What it is. Eighteen of the twenty-four were stuck at the same slide. Nobody moved.
Counted. With dout each of them taps Me too. The number on the tile is the proof you were never the only one.
Ranked. The dashboard sorts doubts by count, so the next lecture starts where this one lost people.
Type the thing you did not get. Nothing about you is stored, not even a nickname.
If they were stuck at the same spot, one tap says so. The tile gets darker. The count is the proof you were never alone.
Their dashboard ranks doubts by count, so the next lecture starts where this one lost people.
Psychologists call it pluralistic ignorance: each student privately assumes everyone else understood, so the question stays unasked. Anonymity removes the cost of asking. The Me too count removes the illusion that you were the only one.
Miller & McFarland (1987), Journal of Personality and Social Psychology · Stowell, Oldham & Bennett (2010), Teaching of Psychology · Read the full problem and research