Kahoot! is an application with which you can learn subjects and concepts in a very fun way, it is a tool that can be very useful for teachers and students, or even between friends to challenge each other in knowledge.
With this application you can run contests in which to measure the knowledge of your students if you are a teacher, or one of your friends if you want to challenge yourself with questions and answers on a specific subject. The best thing is that you can elaborate the theme, the questions, the challenge system and the options you want.
If it was difficult to find an application that suited a specific subject or your interests, with Kahoot you should not look any further, here you are the one who determines the rules. As if it were a TV contest, you will have a good time and learn, a perfect combination.
Kahoot!
This application it is a game, a study method and a contest among the participants, brings together the best of each routine to make studying fun and appealing to users. Kahoot! it is a web service for social education, as if it were a game. That is, if you advance and have many hits, you will earn rewards the higher your score and you reach the top of the podium.
The best thing about this system is that anyone can create a new game, called "a Kahoot!" in such a way that according to your interests or purpose you can create a test on the goth kings, geometric shapes, mathematical properties or the topic that occurs to you, or the one that corresponds to the course material.
We will be able to create a series of questionnaires or kahoots with different questions and answers, it also allows you to carry out surveys. You can even create a slideshow to use the app in meetings and presentations. This is so because Kahoot! is focused on four large sectors:
- At school.
- At work.
- At home.
- In academia
It is not only available for Android, but we can also find it in the iOs application store and it has its web version for computers. Both in the App Store of iOS, and in Android you have it in Google Play of Google (if you are a Huawei user you have it in your AppGallery). And of course not in the its official website .
We can create an account depending on our type of user, either a teacher to create the evaluation questionnaires, or a student to answer them, and even a personal account to be able to perform both functions, both create games and answer them.
Its function is eminently educational, focused on learning and for use by teachers or parents who want to strengthen knowledge in their children through play, but it can also be used between friends to create question and answer contests on the topic of your choice.
If you have already created your Kahoot! that is, the pack of questions and their answers, you can now share them with all your students or with your friends. To play you can choose between individual or group modeYou can also define the points of each correct answer, and finally see who has had the most hits and leads the ranking.
Depending on the battery of questions that you elaborate, you will be able to add answers and select the correct one. It can be through text, or include photos and even videos to make it much more attractive and eye-catching for the participants. Evidently There are options that are paid, so if we want to unlock all the options we have to pay the amount of 11 euros per month. If we want the pro version this allows us to include up to 200 players, add high resolution images and even add different effects.
However in the free mode even if it is more limited can help us to play to the Kahoots! already created, which are many and also quite interesting.
If we want to carry out a series of tests, when we have finished you can share them and start playing, but there are two ways to study them. First in study mode you will see the questions and the correct answer. Once you decide that you have finished studying and have learned everything, you can take the test to see if you remember all the answers. You must be careful because you cannot return to the question already marked as seen during the study.
How the application works
Once we have accessed the application We have to register and determine what type of user we will be, defining the field in which we are going to use it, with whom we will play and fill in some personal data. Once we have solved these premises we can create our test with the button Create kahoot that appears on the screen.
At the bottom you have the option to Enter PIN to access a game using its code, and the search function to find polls created by other users. Therefore, Players must join by entering the PIN code set by the creator of the Kahoot!
So we can see, participate and control the questions in the questionnaire and discover who is correcting more questions, since the screen shows the question and who is winning. When the game is over and all the questions have been answered, we will see a podium with the participants who have achieved the highest score. This data can be exported in an excel file.
If you have questions about the tests you can perform with this application we are going to see a list with all the tests that you can include in your kahoot and the categories at your disposal.
If you want to take knowledge tests you have the following options:
- Quizz: In this mode, ask your question and add the possible answers with only one correct one.
- True or false: Before the questions you ask, you can give the option of true or false, it may seem simple, so the question must be with a higher difficulty.
- Puzzles: This option is only available in the paid version. In this case, you must add the question and you must order the answers, just as if it were a puzzle.
- Short answer: Another option that we only have in the paid version. You just have to add a question, and the rest must write an answer. In this case, it is better to add several possible answers, so that it is not too difficult to find only one specific option.
Collect possible opinions.
In this section we have several options that are only available in the paid versionAs you can see, how much more complex and possibilities the game offers us, we must go through the checkout.
- Word cloud: In this mode you must add a question and the answer has to be made in less than 20 characters, and as its name indicates, the answers will appear in the form of a word cloud.
- Poll: Here we elaborate our question and leave the possibility of several answers to choose from, that is, a lifelong test. Players will have to choose the ones they want and then the most voted will appear.
- Open question: As in the other modalities, you ask your question and according to the dynamics of the game, it must be answered in a maximum of 250 characters. The answers will appear in the form of cards with the printed text.
How to find Kahoots in Spanish
Although there are many payment options, anyone can create content and share it with the rest of the user community, so we can find batteries of questions with their answers already made in our language, we just have to use the Kahoot search engine! and find those that are already made to be able to use them.
Many of the questionnaires are available in English, but also in Spanish, and the Hispanic community is growing every day. However, you can select the language when doing the search so that the results only appear in Spanish. Just write the subject to search in the search box and filter the language so that only the results appear in Spanish. In the "All languages" drop-down, look for Spanish, and you're done.
Do not hesitate to try this game, application, contest or whatever you want to call it, you are sure to have fun and at the same time acquire new knowledge with the incentive of the challenge of winning over others.