Community reviews for Kahoot!

Overall, Kahoot is wonderful to use in the classroom. Students are engaged and excited to practice their skills. They are learning and reviewing content, but in an exciting and interactive way. No matter the age level, Kahoot has been successful in my classes from grades 6-12. Many of my students started creating their own Kahoot games and play with friends in their free time. I’ve become a better teacher because of Kahoot. Instant feedback helps me tailor my lessons and know what I need to review before an upcoming test or assignment. Also, it helps me pick students who are consistently struggling and pull them in for small group review. It creates healthy competition, and depending on which game mode is played, it even helps create friendships and collaboration. When playing in group mode, I select students who rarely speak to each other. This forces them to get to know other students in the classroom, and build upon their communication skills. An upgrade I wish Kahoot offered is forcing students to type in their real name. Sometimes my students like to make up funny nicknames which distracts them from the actual learning process of the game. Also, I wish I could have it connect to my class roster so scores could be saved and uploaded to gradebook. Even if it is uploaded as practice, parents could see how well their child is doing, and I could see how each student performed on the review. This would give me more of an opportunity to bring in students for a reteaching session. I also wish Kahoot games could be assigned to specific students. I would assign a different version of the review to my ESOL students versus my more advanced students. Finally, I wish I could adjust the timer. Currently my 8th graders are in their physics unit which requires a lot of math calculations. Kahoot would be great to help them review, but the 30 second timer isn’t long enough for them to calculate their answers and vote on their chromebooks. Overall, Kahoot is a great review game, but it is tailored more towards on level or advanced students who can read accurately and process information quickly.

My overall opinion on Kahoot! as a learning tool is that it is great for reviews but not very useful for learning new information but I don't really feel like that's what it is designed for anyway. I like that setting one up is very easy to do and the website for the most part is very user friendly. I also really like the ability to share the quizzes and duplicate quizzes you like to make your own edits to. Kahoot! is very useful as a review tool because you are in control of what goes into it and therefore you can focus on exactly what areas or topics your class needs the most help or review with. One last drawback I have is that though set up is easy, it can be time consuming depending on how many questions you want to have.

My overall opinion about Kahoot is that is a great tool to get instant feedback regarding the general understanding of my class. It also offers team mode which allows students to collaborate on questions which enables students who are on the lower end to do better. However, the one downside i found was that struggling students at times get intimidated by the speed of others and tend to stop trying. It does not offer many supports for students who have additional needs. However, Having the team mode eliminates some of the anxiety and pressure some students may feel. In addition, it can be difficult to assess the deeper understanding of students as some students as it lends itself to mainly multiple-choice questions. Furthermore, some students simply wait to get an answer and put it in instead of putting forth effort because their focus becomes getting points rather than learning the material. All in all, I would still use Kahoot in my classroom because the benefits highly exceed the drawbacks. I still find many of my students are engaged and thinking quickly and efficiently when i present kahoot within a lesson we are learning.

It is a fantastic tool in assessing students. I like that it is interactive and engaging. It will motivate students to enhance their knowledge. For me as a teacher, it will assist me to improve my own teaching.

Great formative assessment tool.

I'd like to see the option to send the main game screen to kids' individual screens, simply to solve logistical problems. In a large tech room some kids won't be able to see the screen.

The kids like it because of the score option, they want to have their name on the board. It was hard for students to see the options on their screens, they constantly have to look up to see what you're asking and then match it with what is on their device. I like Plickers better because it's easier to track, and quicker to set up.

It is easy yo set up and very engaging for students

Kahoot took my students by storm. We had used a similar tool throughout the year, but I had never seen them as engaged as I did with Kahoot. The competition aspect of the game had the students at the edge of their seats. After I introduced it, the students would come to class as ask for Kahoot. I also noticed that students who had struggled in all the previous summative assessments made gains after we reviewed with Kahoot. This is definitely a tool that I will continue to implement in my practice!

I think that Kahoot is a great formative assessment tool! I also enjoy using it for quick DECA test prep for competitions. I will say that Kahoot is only truly engaging for about 10 questions. After that students tend to get bored. Students login to the game with a game pin and then get to type their own names. I do have rules about what they can type, however on more than one occasion we’ve had to shut down Kahoot for name shenanigans. The students, and I really like the snapshot between each question. It is fun to see how many students got the question right and the leaderboard is fun to track. This does make it easy to see what students know or don’t know. One big downside is that you cannot continually track student progress via Kahoot. You can download analytics each time the game is played, but nothing is 100% since the students do not have to create their own accounts. I also have noticed that Kahoot is over used so students are no longer as excited as they once were to play. Overall, I think Kahoot is great for a quick review of the day or small unit.