Kahoot and Plickers offer excellent means of assessing understanding and progress…and students love them. This means they pay more attention to their work, and because they get immediate feedback on their answers they are more likely to note and remember the correct reply.
Hence in this respect they are both key to helping students grow.
Critical Reflection
Students generally find Kahoot more fun and it really brings out the competitive streak in many! And let’s face it, given that it gives players continuous encouragement like ‘you’re on a winning streak’ etc. and that in live sessions, following each question the game displays the current top five players, one does understand why live Kahoots get students so excited!
Kahoot also offers interesting features for remote learning, with the free version allowing up to 100 responses on a remotely shared Kahoot that students reply to within a stipulated date.
However there are various reasons why as an educator I favour Plickers in class. This is because the free version offers:
- the possibility of a repsoitory of reusable questions.
- a sense of security in a mixed ability class as the system never shows any student’s performance record to others.
- the facility for teachers to have a mark recorded for each student.
- statistics on student replies for each question.
- the possibility for students to participate without having their device.
It seems that Kahoot does offer some of the above features, however they don’t seem to be available to a free account.
Quizziz
Despite a slightly less exciting interface, and possibly being the less well-known little brother, Quizziz offers many of the facilities offered by Kahoot, while also allowing unlimited tries on a quiz…definitely worth a try!
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