Kahoot! is a game-based learning platform, used as educational technology in schools and other educational institutions. Its learning games, "kahoots", are user-generated multiple-choice quizzes that can be accessed via a web browser or the Kahoot! app. This game based learning platform makes it easy to create, share, and play learning games or trivia quizzes in minutes. Unleash the fun in every type of classroom!
If you want very detailed instructions on how to set it up, watch the webinar below! WARNING! The webinar below is an hour long but it is from the Kahoot! youtube site and their most updated getting started guide so it will walk you through all the new features.
Don't be alarmed! If spending an hour of your life learning about a gamified learning platform isn't for you, just click here to get a short outline to follow. Or my favorite, just log in and START CLICKING! They have lots of templates to make getting polls and quizzes into your students hands easy and stress free. The Discover tab will help you get going!
Administering Quizzes
Quick Formative Assessment
Facilitating Group Discussions
Exit Tickets
Show What You Know before a new Unit
Reward Students with a Fun and Engaging Learning Activity
Gather Data Quickly and Easily for all Students
Create and Engage Students in fun Check for Understanding
Let students work together to work around the room and check in through polls
Make Assessment Easy
Use the reports to drive your instruction!
Students can Create their own Kahoot! and quiz their Classmates - Turn Learners into Leaders!
Students can get a better understanding of where they are in relation to an objective before a summative assessment
Assign "team talk" time so students think before answering!
Create polls to use with staff during meetings
Increase and track engagement during dynamic presentations
Improve cooperative learning of staff using team mode Kahoot!
Play a Kahoot! as the principal and then have students try to beat your score in Ghost Mode
Use the Sign Up button in the right hand corner of the Kahoot! main website
Follow the prompts (yes, you are a teacher, etc, etc.)
Yes, there is a free version so scroll down! No need to buy anything here.
Use your Google Sign in for ease of access and avoid remembering another password!
Now, you are GOOD TO GO!
... or maybe click here once you have set up your Kahoot! account and try out this fun Frozen 2 Trivia game?
"Let it go, let it gooooo..."
