Gynzy

Gynzy is online software for classrooms that have an interactive whiteboard or touchscreen. Teachers open it in a web browser to build lessons, hold students' attention and manage the class. The company started in 2009 and employs over 80 people, from developers and support agents to teachers past and present.

What Gynzy offers

• Lesson builder — a digital whiteboard that combines interactive tools, embedded web content and the teacher's own uploads, with lessons shareable among colleagues.
• Lesson library — over 2,000 ready-made lessons.
• Classroom management — seating plans, timers, random name and group selection, a meter for noise level, and tools to track attendance and activities.
• Maths tools — on-screen protractors and rulers, number lines, base-10 blocks, fraction aids, shopping-and-change exercises and GeoGebra.
• Games — more than 100 classroom games, with bingo, memory and quiz-show formats among them, plus Classroom Quiz.
• Google Classroom — class lists pulled in and lessons sent out.

Who it works with

Individual teachers, whole schools and districts, plus makers and distributors of interactive displays.

Key facts

• Based in: United States
• Founded: 2009
• Team: more than 80 people