Kahoot!

Vorteile

Kahoot ist sehr benutzerfreundlich. Alle Funktionen sind leicht zu überblicken und einfach zu finden. Das Tolle an Kahoot ist, dass man es mit so vielen Leuten gleichzeitig benutzen kann. Dadurch ist es für verschieden Situationen, wie z.B. ein Quiz in der Schule oder auch das lernen allein zu Hause perfekt geeignet. Des weiteren ist die ganze Benutzeroberfläche sehr Comic-Artic gestaltet, was Kahoot auch sehr Kinderfreundlich macht.

Nachteile

Ein Nachteil ist, dass man für viele Fragen, egal auf welcher Sprache, eine Grundkenntnis der Englischen Sprache braucht. Es werden viele Anglizismen verwendet. Außerdem könnten die Funktionen für Solo-Player noch ausgeprägter sein.

Vorteile

Kahoot included many features to attract people to their platform. It has attractive user interface on their website. This makes our work easier either we creating a game or playing a game. Kahoot made our quizzes and assignments more joyful to do when compared with traditional way of writing quizzes and assignments. This saves our time lot. Since the results of the game generated automatically after finishing the game, this helps lecturers as well. No time waste for correcting and marking answer sheets. Another good feature I saw is that the correct answer of each question will be shown after answering the question. Other than the correct answer, detailed information about the answers given from the community is shown with relevant number of choices for each answer with a bar graph. After the game we can see the top three players who scored most. Other rankings can be found through the result sheet. These features are really fascinating.

Nachteile

I have found some issues when using this platform. We need good internet connection to use Kahoot. I am disconnected few times when using this. But this is not a fault of Kahoot. Questionnaire must be re-started if the sever faced any connection problem. Only the symbols related to the answers will be shown on players’ display. Sometimes this can be messing watching relevant symbol again and again before confirming answer. Only multiple choice questions can be included into the question list. I think it will be more useful if they include more answering formats such as text answers. Sometimes one person that needs to play the game may not have any device to play. However these types of issues are very rare on these days since everyone have their own smartphone with good internet connection.

Vorteile

The best thing about Kahoot is that it is extremely easy to use. It was very easy to create quizzes, discussions and surveys and share them with my students. It also allowed me to track progress and easily assign tasks. The game also allows you to customize questions and content to fit your student's curriculum and needs. It was also perfect for team building activities as it facilitates collaboration and communication. The game also has a nice user interface and is very interactive. It is also great for motivating students and making learning fun. I also liked the fact that it is available in multiple languages ​​so I can use it to teach multiple languages. Additionally, the game is available on both his web and mobile platforms, making it easy to access from any device.

Nachteile

The only downside I found with Kahoot is that it's pretty limited. There are only a few types of quizzes, discussions, and polls available, and customization options are fairly limited. The game also requires an internet connection. This can be a problem if you are teaching in an area with limited or no internet access. Also, the gameplay is very repetitive and can get boring after a while.Also, this game does not support audio and video content, so it is not suitable for language teaching with audio and video components. Lastly, the game is quite expensive, which may make it difficult for some to purchase.

Vorteile

I still love Kahoot despite missing features that would make me love it more. Kahoot is so easy to use and a great way to build engagement. There are so many games to choose from and if somethings not quite right, games can be very easily edited or even created. Games are so fun to play and even fun to host. Kahoot makes gamification easy for fun, interactive learning for all ages.

Nachteile

What kahoot is missing, which keeps me from loving it even more, is a way to track performance via google classroom or other educational management systems. Kahoot can be launched with google classroom, but then the data from the games isn't sent back to google classroom. So classroom talks to Kahoot, but for whatever reason Kahoot doesn't talk back to google. I reached out to Kahoot many times about this and I get the same answer that this is not a feature they are interested in providing. What a shame.

What also happens often is players use hurtful and offensive and inappropriate nicknames. This is quite common in schools but can also happen in the workplace. As far as I know, there is no way to track this. Kahoot offers a friendly nickname generator to avoid this, but then there is no way to track performance. So essentially Kahoot which could be so powerful in assessment and training, is simply reduced to a really fun game or just basic enreichment. Again...What a shame.

Vorteile

I liked the fact that it is fun to use Kahoot and learn about speed and accuracy.

Nachteile

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