Kahoot!

Kahoot! offers a fun and engaging way to gauge student knowledge and learning in both virtual and in-person settings. This free and easy-to-use tool can collect instant feedback and provide a snapshot of overall performance or responses. Students play a competitive game by answering posted questions from a laptop, tablet, or smart phone. Answers are posted instantly, in real-time and students accumulate points for correct answers. Instructors can easily create Kahoots with their own questions or use Kahoots shared by other teachers or sponsoring organizations. 

When to Use: For content review, before exams, at the end of units, or for polling opinions or knowledge before lesson.

Estimated Time: 5-30 minutes

Participants: Youth

Supplies: 

• Device with internet access for each student - laptop, tablet, smart phone
• Screen and projector for displaying questions to the whole class

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Assessment Tools: Teachers can create questions to test student knowledge or students can create questions to demonstrate learning.

• Instructors create multiple choice questions and quiz students
• Students create questions and share with instructor
• Students play other student created quizzes
• Use polls to collect student opinions, expectations, and feelings
• Reports feature can show individual student answers and all student responses
• Kahoots area available on many different subjects and fun topics such as trivia contests

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Resources: 

• Kahoot Assessment Tools from Kahoot!
• 8 Ways to Utilize Kahoot! in the Classroom from Continually Learning
• Overview of two assessment tools - Kahoot! and Formative from Teacherlink@USU