Kahoot!

Kahoot!, a student-response tool for all platforms, allows teachers to run game-like quizzes and build presentations with embedded quizzes. Teachers can either create their own quizzes or find, use, and/or remix public quizzes. Kahoots can be presented live or assigned for self-paced learning. During live Kahoots, questions with answer choices get projected onto a classroom screen while students submit responses using an internet-connected device (computer, tablet, or phone). Questions and polls can contain images and video to help further appeal to all learners. For live Kahoots, teachers can choose between Classic mode and Team mode. The Team mode allows groups of students to cooperate with each other and compete against other teams. Assigned Challenges can be completed asynchronously, but students still earn points for their quick responses and compete against their classmates; the leaderboard appears after all participants have responded. Playing a game of Kahoot! doesn't involve student accounts, only a game PIN from the main screen and a gameplay name for each participant.

With a free account, created quizzes can be multiple choice or true and false, and creators can adjust the time limit and point value for each question. Premium accounts add more options, including multi-select options for quizzes.

Full Disclosure: Common Sense Education is a Kahoot! Academy partner; however, our initial rating and review of Kahoot! was completed prior to this partnership. We also maintain our editorial independence, and don't allow this relationship to impact any updates to this rating or review.

With Kahoot!, teachers can integrate slides, videos, polls, and surveys to go beyond the typical multiple-choice quiz experience and move toward a true learning experience. Teachers can also incorporate questions that don't award points to gather opinion data, or include a question with multiple correct answers to challenge students' thinking (and without skewing point totals). Premium features like open-ended responses, puzzles, and brainstorming questions are great for assessing student understanding and prompting discussion. All of this means Kahoot! is now a much more flexible tool than in the past, and is an easy-to-recommend option for quizzing. The Kahoot! Academy and its partner creations do a good job of modeling what's possible through creation; although, the user-generated content is much more uneven (and sometimes even inappropriate). (Editor's Note: Common Sense Education is a Kahoot Academy Partner.)

Data is saved from each round of play and can be viewed online, exported to Google Drive, or downloaded. The reports are well designed for providing immediate feedback, but they're limited because of the way students connect to the platform. For teachers, it would be time-intensive to analyze students' growth patterns or individual problem areas using Kahoot! quizzes.