How to Display Kahoot Questions and Answer Choices on the Same Screen
Last week Kahoot added a feature that teachers and students have been waiting years to see. That feature is the option to have game questions and answer choices displayed on the same screen. This means that students no longer have to look up at a screen in your room or a screen in Zoom then […]
Kahoot Now Displays Questions and Answers on the Same Screen – Finally!
For years teachers and students have wanted to be able to see Kahoot questions and answer choices on the same screen. This week Kahoot finally made that possible! Now when you launch a live Kahoot game for in-person or online play you can choose to enable an option to show questions and answer choices on […]
How to Create and Host Your First Kahoot Game
In this week’s Practical Ed Tech newsletter I share some ideas for adding some fun educational activities into online and hybrid classrooms. In the newsletter I mentioned that I’m using Kahoot at the end of my of my class meetings as a fun way to recap that day’s lesson. This morning I actually used Kahoot […]
Doozy – Create and Play Fun and Educational Quiz Games
Doozy is a neat service for creating online quiz games that you can share with anyone and they can play without having to register for an account. The quiz games that you create on Doozy can be multiple choice or short answer questions. The games that you make can, and probably should, include pictures as […]
Quizizz Adds Three New Features Including Tools for Making Math Problems
This morning Quizizz, a popular classroom quiz game service, announced the launch of three new features that many teachers have wanted. Those features are polling, sound clips, and math equations. These are all features that you can use now when you create new games in Quizizz. The new polling option lets you ask subjective questions […]
Flippity’s Quiz Show Template Has Expanded
Flippity is one of five favorite Google Sheets add-ons for teachers because it provides easy-to-follow templates for creating lots of useful things like progress trackers, spelling games, multimedia flashcards, and Jeopardy-style review games. Flippity’s Jeopardy-style game template, called Quiz Show, was recently expanded. The new version lets you have up to eight players or teams at […]
Try Mentimeter for Classroom Quiz Games
Mentimeter is one of the tools that I regularly feature when talking about gathering realtime, online feedback from students. It’s a great platform for quick, informal polls. Mentimeter is also great for making fun quiz games to use for review activities in your classroom. Mentimeter lets you create slides that then become the basis of […]
Kahoot Adds a Smart Practice Mode
Kahoot has added a new way for students to use the free Kahoot iOS and Android apps. The new way to use the apps is to play games in what Kahoot is calling Smart Practice mode. Kahoot’s new Smart Practice mode gives students an opportunity to focus on the questions that they answered incorrectly during […]
Quizalize Launches New Insights Features
Quizalize is one of my favorite tools for creating and hosting quiz games. One of the aspects of Quizalize that I have liked since it launched is the option to run quiz games as at-home activities instead of just in-class activities (Kahoot launched a similar option last fall). The other aspect of Quizalize that I […]
How to Launch Kahoot Challenges
Challenge mode is one of the key features of the new Kahoot mobile app. Challenge mode lets students play your Kahoot quiz games even when they aren’t in your classroom. When Challenge mode is used students see your quiz questions and the answer choices on the same screen on their mobile phones. In the video […]
Kahoot Launches a New Mobile App – Play Games in Classroom or at Home
Kahoot released a new mobile app this morning. The new app, available for Android and iOS, contains all of the features that were promised back in June at the ISTE Conference. The new mobile app will let students participate in Kahoot games both in the classroom and at home. The Kahoot mobile app offers a […]
Kahoot Unveils a New Mobile App and Game Play Options
Kahoot announced the release of new mobile app this week at ISTE 17. The app, still in beta, addresses a lot of the complaints about Kahoot that I’ve heard from teachers over the last few years. The first item to note in the mobile app is that your students will now see the questions and […]
Collaborate With Students to Create Quiz Games
Triventy is a free quiz game platform that earlier today I introduced to a great group of teachers in New Hampshire. The concept behind Triventy will feel familiar to anyone who has used Kahoot or Quizizz. Triventy differentiates itself from Kahoot and Quizziz by allowing you to accept question suggestions from students. In the video embedded […]
How to Create Short Answer Activities in Socrative
Socrative is one of the original and best platforms for creating quiz games to be played in your classroom on Chromebooks, laptops, and mobile devices. One of the best aspects of Socrative is that unlike Kahoot, Socrative lets you create games in which students have to type answers instead of just picking a multiple choice […]
Use Socrative to Create Quiz Games That Accept Short Answers
This morning I received an email from a reader who was looking for an alternative to Kahoot. He wrote, “I would love to have the same set up / timer / point distribution as Kahoot, but I’m now looking for something more challenging than clicking on an answer…” Socrative was the first option that came […]
Two Options for Collecting Students’ Questions to Appear on Review Games
Earlier this week I received the following email from a reader, My desire is to create a database of questions in multiple choice, short answer and T/F . I guess a quiz, however I would like to “share” (like g docs) this database with my students so that they could add questions . What app […]
Jumble Mode Is a New Way to Play Kahoot Games
Earlier today while creating a chart to compare features of popular quiz game tools I noticed that Kahoot has a new formatting option called Jumble Mode. The jumble mode lets you create quiz games in which students sort answer choices instead of just picking one correct answer from a multiple choice or true/false question. The […]
Six Tools for Creating Classroom Quiz Games – A Comparison Chart
Twice in the last week I have given presentations about tools for creating fun formative assessment activities. The most popular part of that presentation is when we play a couple of quiz games in Kahoot and Socrative. Those are probably the best known quiz game platforms. They are not the only quiz game platforms. There […]
Try Quizalize to Run a “Quiz Night” for Students & Parents
Last week in Atlanta a teacher asked me about the possibility of running a “Kahoot night” in which her students and their parents would play Kahoot games at home together. There were two problems she was running into in organizing that idea. The first problem was timing the event so that everyone would sign-in at […]
Triventy – Collaboratively Create Online Games and Save the Results
Triventy is a free online quiz game platform that is similar in concept to platforms like Kahoot and Socrative. Triventy differentiates itself from the crowd by allowing you to accept question suggestions from students. You can see an overview of Triventy in this video that I published in January. This week Triventy add a frequently […]
Quizalize – Create Interactive Review Games to Play Synchronously or Asynchronously
There is certainly not a shortage of interactive quiz platforms available to teachers today. Platforms like Socrative and Kahoot have turned boring review activities into fun games that students want to play all the time. The trouble with those platforms is that to get the most out of them all of your students need to […]
11 Backchannel & Informal Assessment Tools Compared in One Chart
Last winter I made a series of charts in which I compared popular ed tech tools. I’m now going through those charts and removing some tools and adding some new ones. The chart embedded below is the updated version of my chart comparing 11 backchannel and informal assessment tools. At the bottom of the chart […]
4 Free Tools for Creating & Playing Interactive Quiz Games
Earlier this week I wrote about “ghost mode” being the talk of the Future of Educational Technology Conference in Orlando. That post prompted a few people to ask me about other quiz game platforms. I’ve used a bunch of them over the years. The following are interactive quiz game tools that I’ve used with great […]
Have You Tried Kahoot’s Ghost Mode?
The buzz coming out of the Tech Share Live session at FETC today was all about the “ghost mode” in Kahoot. Kahoot’s ghost mode essentially gives students the opportunity to play a Kahoot review game against themselves. In ghost mode students measure their progress against themselves. How ghost mode works: First, run a Kahoot game […]