Everything from creating a league and building your questions to inviting players and running it day to day.
The League Studio is where trivia and educational leagues are created and run — a classroom review game, a family quiz night, an office onboarding challenge. (Sports leagues have their own create form; the studio is everything else.) You decide who plays, which topics and question formats the league uses, and where the questions come from. The engine handles the rest: it builds a fresh board each day, grades instantly, and keeps standings and streaks. You never write a line of code or touch a database.
Open the studio and the create form walks top to bottom. League name is whatever you want players to see — “Ms. Rivera’s Science League,” “Q3 Compliance Refresher.” Who plays sets the age group (young kids, elementary, middle school, high school / teens, adults, or an everyone-together family league). This does real work: it raises the audience wall that decides who is allowed in, and it filters every board to age-appropriate material, so a league built for elementary students physically cannot serve a question flagged for older players.
Categories is where you pare the shared pool down to your subject. Check the topics your league should draw from — grouped into learning subjects (Science, Geography, and the like) and lighter, just-for-fun categories — with check-all and clear-all buttons so you can start from everything or from nothing. Question types works the same way: pick the formats your league uses — True / False, this-or-that, multiple choice with one answer, multiple choice where more than one answer can be right, plus the fun formats. Together these two pickers are how a league is made to match exactly what you’re teaching, instead of pulling a random mix of everything.
Check Other in the category picker when you want to add your own questions to the league. Then finish with Play & Scoring (a ranked league that keeps weekly and monthly standings, or a just-for-fun league with no standings; and where it can be played — app, website, or both, with kids’ leagues kept app-only) and Dates (educational leagues are open-ended by default — a classroom league just keeps going until you close it).
Every league draws from one of three sources. Run it on our pool — curated, age-filtered, and now narrowed to the categories and formats you picked — and you never have to write a question. Run it on only your own questions and the platform is just the engine: every question is yours. Or run it on both, seeding your own material into a curated base. Whichever you choose, the studio shows you exactly what your players will draw from, browsable by category, so there are no surprises on game day.
Add questions right in the studio. Every question starts with a prompt, and then you choose the answer format. True / False and this-or-that are the two-option classics. Multiple choice — one answer gives three or more options with a single correct pick. Multiple choice — select all that apply lets one or more options be correct, for the “which of these are prime numbers” kind of question — and you decide how it’s graded: all-or-nothing (right only if they check every correct answer and no wrong ones) or partial credit (each correct pick earns, each wrong pick costs). It’s your call per question, because different questions want different rules.
For a whole unit at once, skip the form and import a CSV. Download the template, fill in your questions in any spreadsheet, and upload — the studio reads them in and skips any example rows. Tuesday’s vocabulary list, the fifty state capitals, this quarter’s safety procedures: a batch of questions becomes a league in seconds. Your questions belong to your league alone and never appear anywhere else on the platform, and you can retire, restore, or delete them at any time.
The category and format pickers do most of the fitting, but you can go finer. Browsing the pool your players will draw from, you can remove any individual question that doesn’t suit your class — a phrasing you’d rather avoid, a topic you haven’t reached yet. Removing a question only affects your league; it stays in the shared pool for everyone else, and putting it back is a single click. Nothing is ever destroyed, so you can shape a league confidently and reverse anything later.
A studio league is never frozen. Unlike a sports season that locks once it starts, an educational league stays editable for as long as you want it — because curricula move, lessons get revised, and last week’s unit becomes next week’s review. From the manage page you can adjust who plays and where questions come from, add or import or delete your own questions, trim the pool, and refresh the join code — all without disturbing players who are already in. Save when you’re done and the next daily board reflects your changes.
Your league gets a friendly join code like fluffy-cheese-42, and the studio hands you a ready-to-send invite blurb to paste into an email, a class portal, or a chat. Anyone with the code can join — and players who join by code need no account, no email, and no personal information of any kind. They get a fun auto-generated name and start playing. You can replace the code any time (the old one stops working instantly) or remove it to close the door. Logged-in players can join and play a public trivia league exactly the way they would any league, on the app or the website.
Each day the engine builds a board from your league’s pool and formats, grades answers instantly, and updates standings and streaks. In a ranked league, one play a day is the one that counts; players can keep playing beyond that for practice, with immediate feedback, while the scored play holds until the next day. That rhythm — one that matters, plus unlimited low-stakes practice — is what makes it stick as a daily classroom warm-up or a recurring team ritual.
Kids never need accounts, the platform never collects personal information from players who join by code, and age walls are enforced by the engine, not by the honor system — the details are in For Parents & Teachers. Running a classroom is free: a league, a class-sized roster, the full house pool, join codes, and your own questions. Paid organizer plans (arriving with the app launch) add capacity and convenience — more leagues, unlimited question uploads, and results reporting. Safety features are never paid features.