Kahoot is an educational tool that allows teachers to create quizzes and games for students to play in real-time. It creates an engaging learning environment. Teachers can use Kahoot to assess student understanding, identify concepts needing more instruction, and organize classroom activities based on results. Gradebook and Planbook tools allow teachers to enter grades, comments, and student progress which can be exported and shared with students and parents through a school's website. The website should be easy to navigate and allow access to grades, assignments, teacher contact information for parents, students and staff.
2. A Kahoot is a collection of questions on
specific topics. Created by teachers,
students, business-people and social
users, they are asked in real-time, to an
unlimited number of “players”, creating a
social, fun and game-like learning
environment.
3. 1. How to get started: “Go to getkahoot.com and create a free account. You can search the
public quiz games or create one of your own.
2. Tap into the kids’ love of technology and competitive natures… “There’s a new ‘ghost’ feature
that lets the kids play against their previous score. They love it!
3. … But still keep the volume at a minimum. “I play calmer music from Pandora if the Kahoot!
music is too over stimulating for the students.
4. Use the results to direct classroom activity organization. “I use the data as a way to organize
and pull small groups.
5. Assess student understanding. “It works great for assessing where students might be missing a
concept or content.
6. Zero in on the needs of individual students. “You can get detailed reports of which child missed
which questions.
7. Conclude class with a quick round. “You can use it at the end of class or after notes for a formative
assessment.
8.Warm up the class with a game. “I use it as my class starter.
9. Assess students’ knowledge before the start of a unit. “I use is it for mental/oral starters in math and
I’ve also used it to assess subject knowledge before starting a new topic
10. Include a game in your sub plans. “Here’s a simple sub plan: The students play a game of Kahoot.
4. Kahoot creating a social fun, and game-like
learning environment.
gradebook & Planbook.
Planbook Plus will also provide teachers the
opportunity to review and check student progress.
Gradebook: Create categories to organize items and
allow for weighting of grades
Enter, view, edit, and release to students scores,
grades, and comments
Transmit scores to the Gradebook from tools such as
Quiz & Survey, Assignments, and Forums
Export scores and grades to Microsoft Excel.
5. school’s website should be easy for parents,
students and staff to navigate through. You may
want parents to be able to see their children’s
grades, what classes they’re taking, and if there
has been any absences, or lateness. You might
want students to be able to see their grades, but
also to have access to assignments so they can
see whether or not they’ve turned in assignments.
Another priority might be easily accessed email
addresses for teachers, with links directly to them.
Teachers also need ease of access, so they can
update grades, input information on assignments,
and make adjustments as needed.