Last Updated on October 15, 2019 by Karl Thompson
Kahoot is an online quizzing platform which allows teachers to create multiple choice quizzes which can be played in-class by students, who access the quiz on a mobile device.
Students need to go to Kahoot.it and need a pin (unique to each quiz, and only available once the teacher makes the quiz live) to enter…
There are a few different ‘game’ options (there’s a matching/ ordering version) for example, but here I’m focusing just on the ‘classic’ Kahoot….
How Kahoot works…
NB – I recommend you go check it out for yourself, nothing like practice to get your head around it! (If, of course, you think it’s worth the time investment…)
Questions are projected up like this
Before the screen below just the question appears, for a set amount of time (I like to set this at 10 seconds) – this is thinking time!
And students see the coloured options on their phones like this..
They simply tap the option they think is correct.
Students get points for correct answers and for how quickly they answered, and their ranked at the end of each question in a leader board, and yes of course, there’s an overall winner after all the questions have been answered…
I like to set up a Kahoot with 15-20 questions, which is ENOUGH! Although I’ve seen some with dozens of questions.
You might also like to read the following two posts to see how Kahoot compares to…
What I like about Kahoot
- Christmas in coming, and I don’t know about you, but if it’s a toss up between starting ‘experiments in research methods’ or playing Kahoot on that slack last day of term… well let’s just say Milgram can wait until January!
- It’s possibly the most fun you’ll have in class in all year…
- The background ‘data entry’ side of Kahoot is very easy to use – it’s basically the same as for Quizlet, and, as with Quizlet, you can duplicate, modify and repurpose other people’s work.
What I don’t like about Kahoot…
- Oh how the children lold all term, yet oh how they wailed when they came to their exams and realised they had no clue WTF analysis was.
- Unlike Quizlet, you don’t end up with nice Flashcards which the students can use to review knowledge, and the quizzes aren’t available offline afterwards. IMO Quizlet is far better a time investment for A level sociology teachers.
- It actually has quite a discouraging effect on those in the bottom half of the leader board!
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