Chart Class Opinions and Data with Graphs & Charts

Graphs & Charts activities turn your class into the dataset. Depending on the graph type you choose, students answer opinion statements, contribute measurements, or vote in a survey — and the results chart live, with each student appearing as their own avatar.

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Try it live

Open one of each graph type as a student would — answer the compass, add a scatter point, cast a pie vote — beside a class of seeded results. Nothing you submit is saved. Every example is a real activity in read-only mode, no account needed.

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The four graph types

One Graphs & Charts activity can be any of four types, chosen in the editor:

• Compass — students respond to your statements (Strongly Disagree → Strongly Agree, or number entry) and land as a dot on a two-axis quadrant chart, like a political-compass exercise. You define both axes, which direction each statement moves, and how much it counts.
• Line — you enter one or more data series (up to 8, each up to 500 points) and ChimeEdu draws them as connected lines. Great for trends, functions, and reading-a-graph practice. Students view the chart; they don’t submit data.
• Scatter — plotted points from your data series, plus optional class data collection: each student submits one (X, Y) observation — height vs. shoe size, plant growth vs. sunlight — and appears on the chart as their avatar.
• Pie — a survey question with answer options you define. Each student votes once, and the class distribution charts as a pie or donut.

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Creating a Graphs & Charts activity

1. Go to Activities → Create and pick the Graphs & Charts tile.
2. Give it a title and link it to a classroom. The classroom link matters: students participate through their classroom enrollment.
3. In the editor, pick the graph type, then build your content — statements for a Compass, data series for Line/Scatter, or answer options for a Pie.

Settings save automatically as you work (the header shows the save status), and the live preview updates as you type. Statements, series, and options save with their own buttons.

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How students participate

Share the student link (or QR code) from the activity page. Students sign in with their classroom account — that’s how their answer appears as them on the chart. Every student always signs in to participate (Graphs & Charts isn’t available as a Quick Activity), though a Compass can hide who submitted what from everyone with Anonymous results. Students can change their answer at any time; resubmitting replaces their previous response.

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Private vs. classroom results

Every participating graph type has a visibility setting:

• Private — each student sees only their own result. Only you see the full class.
• Classroom — after submitting, students see the whole class chart, with classmates shown as avatars (hover or focus a dot for the name and values).

Responses appear under each student’s name, so consider your question topics and visibility mode together — a class measurement activity is a natural fit for Classroom sharing, while an opinion compass on a sensitive topic may belong in Private mode, or in Classroom mode with Anonymous results turned on (below). The same reminder appears beneath the activity’s Share box.

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Anonymous Compass results

When a Compass is set to Classroom visibility, an extra Anonymous switch appears beneath it. Turn it on when you want the class to see the full spread of responses without anyone knowing who submitted what — opinion compasses in Government, Politics, Model U.N., advisory, and similar settings, where honest answers need the safety of anonymity. With Anonymous on:

• Students still see the whole class chart after submitting — but every classmate appears as a plain dot with no name or avatar. Each student’s own marker keeps their avatar, so they always know where they stand relative to the class.
• You are anonymized too: Live Results shows the same identity-free dots, and the Submissions roster lists responses without names. That’s deliberate — students can only answer honestly if nobody, including their teacher, can tie a dot to a person. You can still remove an individual submission from the roster; you just won’t know whose it is.
• The View as table alternative and dot tooltips show the same generic labels, so nothing identifying appears anywhere in the results.

Anonymity is enforced on ChimeEdu’s servers — names and avatars are stripped before results ever reach a browser, not merely hidden on screen. You can switch Anonymous on or off at any time; it changes only how results are displayed, never the responses themselves. Switching back to Private restores your named view of who has submitted.

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Live results

Open Live Results from the activity page or editor for a projectable view that updates automatically as students respond. You can remove any individual submission from the roster — for example, your own after testing the student view.

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Save any chart as an image

Every chart — in the editor preview, the student view, and Live Results — has a Save as image button that downloads a PNG, ready to drop into homework, slides, or coursework submissions.

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Give each student their own chart

Line and Scatter charts can be issued per student on Plus and Premium, so each student authors their own data series instead of contributing to one class chart — or by group, where students placed into groups (A–Z) co-author one chart together. The eight-series limit applies to each student’s or group’s own chart, not to the activity as a whole. Compass and Pie can’t be issued this way — they already collect one submission per student. See Per-Student & Groups.

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Accessibility

Every chart offers a View as table alternative with the exact underlying data, all data points are keyboard-focusable with tooltips, and charts respect reduced-motion preferences.