When the room is quiet, the light slowly grows, and a focus mark fills for every stretch of calm. When it gets too loud, everything goes on hold: progress is kept, but the calm has to come back.
Class goal: Fill all nine marks before the session ends.
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Pick a session length, press Begin Session, and allow the microphone. The monitor listens for a moment to learn how your room sounds when it is calm.
While the room stays quiet, a soft light breathes and slowly brightens, and a focus mark fills for every stretch of sustained calm. Nine marks complete the session.
If the room gets too loud, the session simply goes on hold: no drama, no cartoons. Earned marks are never lost, and the light picks up where it left off once calm returns.
The classic traffic light noise monitor, full screen! The light stays green and little cars cruise across town while the class is quiet. Too loud turns it red and jams the traffic.
Keep your class quiet and watch a jungle grow full screen! Trees grow when the classroom is calm and wilt when it gets too loud.
Keep your class quiet and hatch baby dinosaurs from their eggs! Too much noise wakes the volcano and scares the dinos back into their shells.
Keep your class quiet and raise nine butterflies from egg to wing! Caterpillars munch, chrysalises ripen and butterflies emerge while the room stays calm: a living life-cycle lesson.
Keep your class quiet and assemble nine little robots on a factory line! The machines pause and amber beacons spin when the room gets loud. Finished robots are never lost.
Keep your class quiet and help busy ants dig an underground colony, chamber by chamber! The digging stops and the tunnels crumble when it gets too loud.
Keep your class quiet and cheer nine snails along the garden racetrack! The snails hide in their shells when the classroom gets too loud. Slow and steady wins.
The classic bouncy balls noise meter, flipped to reward calm! Colorful playground balls bounce while your class stays quiet. Too much noise stops the fun and deflates them.
Keep your class quiet and fill a pirate chest with treasure! The ship sails toward the island while the room stays calm, and a storm brews when it gets too loud.
Keep your class quiet and watch a coral reef bloom full screen! Corals grow and fish arrive when the classroom is calm, and the reef bleaches when it gets too loud.
Keep your class quiet and ride a steam train across the countryside, station by station! The signal turns red and the train stops when it gets too loud.
Keep your class quiet to build, fuel and launch rockets to every planet! The countdown holds when the classroom gets too loud.
Keep your class quiet and brew nine glowing magic potions in a wizard classroom! The cauldron fizzles and the magic drains away when it gets too loud.
Keep your class quiet and light up a fairy village of mushroom houses! Glowing windows and fireflies fill the glade, until the wind blows the lights out.
Keep your class quiet and build a castle stone by stone! The builders stop and the scaffolding shakes when the classroom gets too loud.
Keep your class quiet to build a snowman and make the northern lights bloom! Too much noise kicks up a blizzard that blows the snow away.
Keep your class quiet and ride a hot air balloon from the fields to the stars! The balloon sinks when the classroom gets too loud.
Or head back to the classroom noise monitor homepage for the full overview and FAQ.
Yes. Focus Mode is one of the four themes included in the Free plan, with sessions of up to 30 minutes and no account required. Lifetime Pro (a one-time $20 payment) adds the other fourteen themes and unlimited session time.
No. Focus Mode never takes earned focus marks away. Sustained noise puts the session on hold and the light fades a little, but everything picks up where it left off as soon as calm returns.
Focus Mode is the grown-up theme: no cartoons, no characters, just a calm breathing light. It is made for older students (upper elementary through high school) and works beautifully for exams, silent reading, libraries and study halls.