Kahoot!: Bring Games to Your Classroom

Kahoot! is a free game-based tool that can be used in classroom. It gives a refreshing way for classroom activities which includes quizzes, discussion and survey. Kahoot! is great for collaboration since it can be played in a group setting. In additional to its free service, students can join a Kahoot! activity from any devices as long as it is connected to the internet and use a pin of game that Kahoot! provides to start the game. Teachers who wants to create a Kahoot! activity can go to getkahoot.com and students can join a Kahoot! competition by visiting kahoot.it.Take a look at this video below on how to use Kahoot!

 

What does it do?

Quiz

Through quiz, teachers can ask questions and add images to it. It can be used to introduce a new topic to the classroom and have students take the quiz to review their understanding of the topic. The quiz will raise students' competitiveness, as it will show the class the score of each players.

Discussion

Discussion can be use to initiate a debate or class discussion. Teachers can come up with a question about the topic and embedded a video. In the later stage, teachers can put up a question and have students to choose the answer based on their stance to the topic. 

 

Jumble

Jumble is a brand new game from Kahoot! It allows teachers to create a set of questions and have the students arranged the answers accordingly.

 

Survey 

 Have students choose their preferences in a fun way.

What are the benefits for your classroom?

Collaborating: Kahoot! is best played using a shared screen such as projector or interactive whiteboard. It liven up the classroom group activities as students can directly answer questions, earn points, and get feedback instantly.

Engaging: Kahoot! allows students to be involved in a game where its activity has suspenseful music and a quick pace. Such activity stimulates and entertains students keeping them engaged in a topic. The way Kahoot! presents ranking after each activity will make students feel challenged and encouraged them to put more effort to their answers.

A new way of assessment: Kahoot! can be an alternative way of gathering a formative assessment or even to review lesson content with your classroom. The real time results of the game and also be downloaded for further use.

Easy to use: To create an activity in Kahoot! it only took users a simple set up process to easily set up an activity.

What are the limitations?

Styles and Formatting: Kahoot! does not allow users to mofidy the fonts or colours. It only offers true or false and multiple choice options.

 Tips

• The games in Kahoot! can be display on a shared screen such as projector or interactive whiteboards.
• You can also use Kahoot! during a screensharing activity, such as Google Hangouts.
•  Students do not need to have Kahoot! account to join the activity.