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Learn how Kahoot! can help you facilitate distance learning and
connect with students even when they aren’t in class.

learning with You’ll learn how to assign student-paced games, host Kahoot! live
via video conferencing, improve instruction with advanced question

Kahoot!
types, and use reports for formative assessment. Dive in!

How to assign student-paced games in challenge mode 2

How to host a kahoot live via video conferencing 3

How to assess learning progress with reports 4

How to use advanced question types 6

when teaching remotely

How to personalize learning with 8

Kahoot! Premium for schools

Get inspired: teacher shares an activity to 9

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Challenge mode

How to assign student-paced

games in challenge mode
This way to play Kahoot! extends learning beyond live games
and classroom walls and encourages accuracy over speed.
Students play at their own pace with questions and answers
on their screens, while a teacher sees their progress in real
time. The feature is available for free for teachers and students.

1.  Log in to your account and open a kahoot you’d like to use.

2.  Click Play and choose Assign in the dialog.

3.  Follow the instructions and set a deadline when

you’d like the game to be completed.

4.  Turn off the question timer to make the game all about Pro tips
accuracy and not speed! Toggle our friendly nickname ▶ Turning the timer off in a student-paced game will decrease

generator on to avoid inappropriate nicknames. guesswork, prioritize accuracy, and improve students’ focus.

5.  Copy the link and share it with your students ▶ Many teachers find student-paced games especially helpful for

– via email, via your LMS, or other messengers. content review, exam prep, and homework assignments.

Alternatively, you can share the PIN of the game. ▶ You can check results and game completion rate in real

6.  By joining your game via a link or PIN, students play it time by clicking Reports or View challenge info from the

at their own pace on a computer or mobile device. detail page of the kahoot you assigned as a challenge.

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Hosting via video

How to host a kahoot live via video conferencing

We call this way of playing “connected Kahoot!’ing.” In essence,
it means playing a live game of Kahoot!, but with students or
whole classes in another location – home, different campus, even
a different country. Participants use Kahoot! with an online video
conferencing tool (with screen sharing capability) to facilitate this.

1.  Log in to your Kahoot! account and find your kahoot to host.

2.  Connect to your video conferencing tool of choice - for

example, Google Hangouts Meet, Skype, or Zoom - make sure
your webcam, microphone, and speaker are turned on.

3.  Click Play and Teach to launch the kahoot, so

the lobby is showing with the game PIN. Pro tips
4.  Share your screen, so students joining can all see the ▶ This way of playing Kahoot! works best for smaller classes and
game PIN. They will need a screen to see questions students of higher school grades or in higher education.
and a second device to join the game. ▶ Do a dry run before you host your game, to get
5.  Host the kahoot as usual, taking care to not speak over the to know the setup and test the sound.
music that plays during the timer countdown - you can either: ▶ Don’t have more than one microphone or speaker on in
▶ Wait until the final answer responses are shown to talk the room at the same time to reduce feedback.
▶ Mute your speaker to talk over the game music

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progress with reports

Kahoot! goes beyond being a fun motivation for students to

study or reward - with it, you can capture useful instructional
insights for formative assessment. Learn how to use Kahoot!
reports to assess learning progress and better target your
further instruction - which is especially important for distance
learning when you’re interacting with students remotely.

After you’ve hosted a game live or assigned a student-paced

challenge, go to the Reports section and find the report you need.

Actionable insights from live

games and challenges ▶ The correct overall percentage of the question
The Summary section presents various actionable ▶ How long it took (in seconds) for students to answer
insights in a neat, visual way:
▶ All the key stats - how many students played, When you come across a question that was answered more incorrectly,
how many questions there were, etc immediately check to see if multiple students were picking the
▶ Which questions were the most difficult and might need reteaching same wrong answer. If they didn’t, it could be that the wording of
▶ Which players need help based on their game results the answer options was confusing, or the students had a lapse in
concentration. If they did pick the same wrong answer, dig in further.
If the total correct percentage is less than 80%, there is
room for improvement, so dig into the report further. Look at the Player view to check which student (via their
nickname) is answering incorrectly. How long are they taking to
In the Question view you can identify where exactly answer? If they are answering faster than their peers and making
key challenges occur. Be sure to look at: errors, you may need to focus on their lack of attention.
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progress with reports

Reinforce learning Additional options

If there were 3 or more difficult questions in a game, you can By clicking the pencil icon next to the report name, you can rename
generate a new kahoot with them to reinforce learning, power it. This will allow you to organize reports in a more convenient
up content review and prep for exams. A question is labelled as way and make it easier to find the right one if you used the same
difficult if less than 35% of students answered it correctly. kahoot in several classes. Click the three dots to access additional
options. There, you can download a report in a spreadsheet,
access reports of the same kahoot, or delete this report.

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question types

How to use advanced question

types when teaching remotely
Did you know that you can combine several question
types in one kahoot? This will help you tailor
dynamics to distance learning, activate different
ways of thinking, as well as collect feedback.

Here’s a recap on different question types available in

Kahoot! in addition to multiple-choice quiz questions:

True or false: test attention Puzzle (available in Pro and Premium): test deeper understanding
This question type gives you a quick and easy way to Students need to place answer alternatives in the right order. It’s a great way
assess initial understanding or check how well students to test deeper understanding, as precision matters more than ever! You can
are paying attention. With the answer options pre- use this question type to build math equations, arrange letters into a word
populated, it only takes seconds to add a question. or words into a sentence, sort dates by chronological order, and more.

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Question types

Slide (available in Pro and Premium):

explain and give more context
Using slides, you can add text, an image,
or a video between questions to provide
additional explanation and give more context
to a question, introduce a new topic, or present
info needed to answer the next question.

Poll (available in Pro and Premium): do

a pulse-check and collect feedback
At any point in your kahoot, you can run a quick
poll to collect feedback, check how students feel
about the game and how well they understood
the content. These insights will be particularly
helpful in distance learning when you’re
interacting with students across distance.

Open-ended question
(available in Premium)
Students type a short answer to this question.
This will help you see how well your class
recalls content without any cues.

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learning

How to personalize learning with

Kahoot! Premium for schools
The personalized learning feature in Kahoot! Premium
for schools will help you customize learning to
each student’s pace and level of understanding of
a topic for better knowledge retention. They can
Here’s how personalized learning works:
continue studying in their own time, which makes
this feature particularly helpful in distance learning.
1.  Upgrade to Kahoot! Premium for schools.

Our personalized learning feature, included 2.  Open a kahoot you’d like to play. Toggle Personalized
in Kahoot! Premium for schools, is based on learning on when you’re launching it.
spacing and testing, psychology-backed learning
3.  Students need to play the kahoot live in the
methods that improve knowledge retention.
free Kahoot! app on iOS or Android devices. As
they go, the app remembers which questions
Spacing effect means that we remember
that were most difficult for each student.
information more easily and retain it for a longer
time when we learn it in multiple, spread- 4.  After the live game, the app prompts students to
out sessions. Testing effect, in its turn, shows replay difficult questions. They play at their own
that using tests for practice after knowledge is pace in the app until they’ve mastered all questions,
obtained helps us retain it for a longer time. with repetition rounds spaced out over 7 days.

5.  Follow students’ learning progress in a report

and see who might need follow up.

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Get inspired!

“
Teacher shares an activity to engage This activity would let them study at their
students when school is out own pace during the upcoming spring
High school teacher Glenn Cake came up with this activity break and Easter holidays. This solution
based on student-paced games to engage learners in can also be relevant for schools that have
content review and exam prep when school is out. to switch to distance learning these days.

1.  Choose games that would help 4.  Turn off the timer if accuracy
students review the course content. is the top priority.

2.  If you decide to create a new, longer 5.  Create a challenge (or several challenges)
kahoot for the activity, you can save as described in one of previous sections
time creating it by combining several and share the PIN with students.
existing kahoots. Select two or more
6.  Announce winners of the challenge
kahoots by clicking the checkmark
when your class reconnects.
and click Combine in the bar below.

3.  Incorporate different question types

in addition to multiple-choice quiz.
According to Glenn, adding true or
false questions, puzzles, open-ended
questions, and info slides* provides
diversity in the activity, keeps the *Puzzle and slides are part of Kahoot! Pro
self-paced game engaging, and for schools. Open-ended questions are
part of Kahoot! Premium subscription.
activates different ways of thinking.
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