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Kahoot!

Overview

What is Kahoot!?

Kahoot! is a game-based learning platform designed to make it easy to create, share and play learning games or trivia quizzes in minutes from the company of the same name headquartered in Oslo.

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Kahoot is a versatile and widely-used platform that offers various use cases across different educational settings and industries. In the …
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Kahoot!

10 out of 10
May 02, 2022
Kahoot! is a big help during this time of pandemic since there is no face-to- face events, our partners is using Kahoot! to provide …
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Kahoot!'s Interactive Nature Cultivates Engagement In Virtual Education: User Review
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User Review: Kahoot! Works to Make Interactions Quick & Effective for Student
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Pricing

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Kahoot! Event Bronze

$250

Cloud
to host an unlimited number of kahoots at one event

Kahoot! 360 Spirit for small teams

$500.00

Cloud
per month for 25 members (annual subscription billed monthly)

Kahoot! Event Silver

$500

Cloud
to host an unlimited number of kahoots at one event

Entry-level set up fee?

  • No setup fee

Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Product Demos

A demo of using Jumble mode in Kahoot!

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Using Kahoot in the Virtual Classroom

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Study leagues in the Kahoot! app: demo video

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Kahoot! mobile app demo: make homework awesome!

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Product Details

What is Kahoot!?

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What is Kahoot!?
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Kahoot! Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationNo

Frequently Asked Questions

Kahoot! is a game-based learning platform designed to make it easy to create, share and play learning games or trivia quizzes in minutes from the company of the same name headquartered in Oslo.

Reviewers rate Usability and Support Rating highest, with a score of 9.2.

The most common users of Kahoot! are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Reviews and Ratings

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Kahoot is a versatile and widely-used platform that offers various use cases across different educational settings and industries. In the classroom, teachers utilize Kahoot to engage students through interactive quizzes, fostering a fun and effective learning environment. Students can also create study sets, while teachers can generate assessments with the help of detailed reports provided by Kahoot. This enables both students and teachers in intermediate grades to enhance their understanding and review concepts.

Beyond the classroom, Kahoot finds utility among colleagues looking to gauge knowledge on specific topics or collect opinions anonymously. Its application extends to webinars, where it adds a gamified element to sessions, ensuring attendees remain engaged and actively participate in the presentation. District-wide implementations of Kahoot serve as an efficient tool for concept review, curriculum engagement, and formative assessments.

Additionally, Kahoot plays a vital role in corporate training and onboarding sessions conducted by Customer Success and Launch teams. The platform's interactive quizzes not only keep end users engaged but also incentivize participation with the offer of prizes for winners. In university settings, professors benefit from employing Kahoot as an interactive tool to gauge student comprehension during lectures.

Moreover, companies utilize Kahoot to enhance participant engagement during webinars, presentations, and internal events. With its user-friendly interface and support for smartphone connectivity, organizations can easily organize quizzes and games that promote team connectedness or deliver essential training material. Furthermore, Kahoot serves as an enjoyable tool for program celebrations and online events, making them more interactive even in times of remote work or social distancing.

In conclusion, Kahoot's versatility in educational settings across all grade levels and subject matters makes it an essential resource for engaging students and providing valuable insights into their learning progress. Moreover, its application extends beyond academia into various industries such as corporate training, team bonding activities, church clubs, staff presentations, and continuous improvement efforts. With its emphasis on gamification and interactivity, Kahoot effectively promotes a positive and engaging learning experience for all.

Mobile Accessibility: Many users have expressed appreciation for the fact that Kahoot can be used on mobile phones, making it accessible during the pandemic. This feature has been beneficial for both in-person and online classes, allowing seamless integration into different learning environments.

Free or Reduced Price Registration: Several reviewers have mentioned that educators can register to play Kahoot for free or at a reduced price. This option is valued as it promotes accessibility and encourages the use of Kahoot in educational settings.

Enhanced Interaction: Users highlight that Kahoot enhances interaction between teachers and students, creating a more engaging and interactive learning experience in the classroom.

Cluttered and overwhelming interface: Many users have found the new site layout to be cluttered and overwhelming, which has left them feeling confused about how to navigate the platform effectively.

Insufficient tutorials: Some users have suggested the need for more comprehensive tutorials to help them better understand and utilize all the features of the platform, as they felt that the brief tutorials provided were not sufficient.

Limited free options and pricing structure: Users have expressed a desire for more free options when creating activities on the platform. They also criticized the pricing structure, mentioning that lower-priced plans had too many features locked behind higher-priced plans.

Users have made several recommendations based on their experiences with Kahoot. The most common recommendations are as follows:

  1. Explore the Community's Content: Reviewers suggest taking advantage of the vast library of quizzes and games created by other users within the Kahoot community. This can save time and provide a wider range of engaging learning materials.

  2. Use Kahoot for Review and Checking Understanding: Many users highly recommend Kahoot for reviewing and assessing students' knowledge. The competitive nature of the quizzes adds an exciting edge to learning, making it more engaging and enjoyable for high school and college students.

  3. Customize and Enhance Kahoot Sessions: It is advised to take the time to learn and utilize all the features that Kahoot offers, such as simulations, pictures, music, and challenges when teaching with Google Classroom. This helps create a fun and interactive learning environment that keeps students engaged throughout the session.

Overall, reviewers emphasize that Kahoot is a highly recommended resource for educators and trainers in various settings, from classrooms to corporate training sessions. It is particularly praised for its ability to increase student engagement, check understanding, and make learning more enjoyable through game-based elements.

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Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Kahoot! provides the best tool to train others and perform educational tests using the application. The best thing is that others can connect online using their smart phones to take quizzes to measure success of training provided earlier.

We had issues basically in finding a good tool to test staff that can stay as a database until we found Kahoot!.
  • They have different quiz types.
  • You can store your quizzes there.
  • The music and shapes they use is very entertaining.
  • You can at the beginning connect an test for free before you make a purchase.
  • They can add more ways to perform quizzes.
  • The site is not very simple to find your way through. It is uploaded with so much data; therefore it would be good if they can organize it a little bit.
  • It would be good to give free templates to free users to attract them.
A training for a large team where it saved cost in printing quiz papers, collecting papers, a person is responsible to make sure of the score. Kahoot! helped us in saving all the time, it is a sort of an ice-breaker. It really did a great job and at the end of the day everybody was very happy.
January 18, 2023

Krazy for Kahoot!

Chrisse Olsson Olsson | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Kahoot is being used in our district for review of concepts, engagement with the curriculum, and as a formative assessment tool. It is great that it has activities already created or the option to create your own for a topic you are teaching. The only problem is sometimes they want to charge extra to create a game or activity. Sometimes it is also hard to find the options you want for creating or using.
  • Engages students
  • Easy to use
  • Has options to create many different activities for learning.
  • Having more free options for creating the activities needed for learning.
  • Making it easier to create the activities.
  • Having a free membership for teachers to use all options.
Kahoot is an easy online program to use when engaging students in learning. It promotes fun learning and students can easily interact with others while using it. Teachers have beneficial access to create the activities or search for those that someone else has created and saved. It's fun for all involved.
Anastasia Globa | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Kahoot! is a great tool for implementing gaming aspects in learning activities at the university level. We used it in our school of Architecture, design, and planning for Bachelor of Architecture units. Most students find it to be very engaging and interactive. I have also been on the receiving end of using Kahoot!, as it was used by the SES teaching activities, where I was in a role of a student.
  • Quiz Challenges (who answers first and provides correct answers)
  • Interactive activities and different types of questions
  • Engaging animations and effects
  • It was extremely annoying that I needed to have 2 devices to use Kahoot! properly, my laptop AND my phone
  • Mobile app needs more work and further development
  • it was sometimes hard to see the answers on a mobile screen
This tool can be very useful to test students' understanding and knowledge in a Knowledge Quiz/gaming scenario.: Who is the first and answers the most questions correctly. Kahoot! will display both winners and runners up automatically. On the other hand when students are not knowledgeable, fast, or just shy this approach might not be effective and even counter-productive.
November 15, 2021

Fun online quiz!

Kristine Dianne Caballa-Pasion | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Our company uses Kahoot on our company events such as webinars, presentations, and company events. This is the most commonly used application for games. It helps the participants be more engaged and enjoy the events at the same time. This is a very fun game. This application is also user-friendly.
  • Game
  • Quiz
  • Application for events
  • Sometimes there are some delays.
  • Improve ease of use.
  • Graphics.
  • Put on music.
In my experience, we usually use Kahoot when we conduct webinars, company events, and other online activities. This application is more applicable to this kind of event. During the pandemic, many companies conducted events online and one of the most used apps is Kahoot. I'm not sure where it is not appropriate.
Rachel Piper | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Most upper elementary/middle school teachers at my school utilize Kahoot in their classroom. Because it is so widely used, all of our students are extremely familiar with how to use it. Kahoot is great for making a fun and interactive way to quiz students and get a baseline understanding of where they stand on content understanding. It's also great for when you have a few minutes left of class, you can find an already made Kahoot to play with your students!
  • Student engagement
  • Easy to use
  • Fun and interactive for all students!
  • Already made lessons
  • Add a hidden feature where students don't know who is who, but the teacher does.
Kahoot is excellent for more mature students, I would say students in 3rd grade and above. It's excellent if you want to create a fun and engaging way to test or quiz students, or even just to review content information. I really appreciate that there are thousands of already made lessons, so I almost never have to make my own! I get to simply search, make sure it's appropriate for what I'm looking for, and use it (yay no prep!).
October 31, 2021

Something for Everyone

Emily Hammell | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I use Kahoot! to keep colleagues involved with our presentations in a variety of ways. I use it to gauge how much they know about the topic I'm presenting on, use it as a tool or "mini quiz" at the end of the session, or just collect opinions anonymously to see how people are feeling. I love that it offers different games and ways to be interactive.
  • Integrations
  • Beautiful graphics
  • Customizable
  • Brief Tutorials
  • Free Trial
  • Clarification between Suites
Kahoot is great for a variety of internal and external uses, including onboarding, training, board presentations, etc. It is also very useful for presenting at conferences, presenting information, or gauging interest in potential projects. It may be less appropriate in groups of people unfamiliar with the specific technology or those who don't have reliable internet access.
September 25, 2020

Kahoot for university? Yes!

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
At my university, Kahoot is commonly used by the majority of professors as an interactive tool for either, in-person or online classes. The most common ways for the professors to use Kahoot are at the beginning of each lecture to get a better insight on what the level of the class regarding a certain topic, or at the end of the class, to know how well the class understood the concepts explained during the lecture. As a student, I find Kahoot to be an interesting and engaging tool for both, online and in-person classes. Kahoot allows me to explore concepts while competing with classmates in a risk-free and friendly environment.
  • Useful for either, in-person or online classes: it can work from a projector or screen in in-person classes, or by sharing the screen in online classes.
  • Excellent to get an idea of the understanding or knowledge level of a group of people: depending on the intention of the game, the professor or person in charge of it can make and change the questions to address certain points.
  • Easy to use for both professors and students: Kahoot is intuitive, simple, and fun to use.
  • Interactive and engaging: Kahoot is a game designed to work as a tool for professors, which makes it perfect to use with students.
  • Leaderboards are not the best. Having the ability to download the full leaderboards or have more in-depth reports of each game would be better.
  • Cannot get proper track of the placing of each participant. Again, the lack of proper placing reports after each game is an important fault, better leaderboards are necessary.
  • Internet connection plays an important role in the results. The punctuation system of Kahoot is time-based. A student that answered 2 seconds before another student will get more points, this can be affected by the speed of internet connections; a different approach to punctuation systems would be better.
Kahoot is excellent for small to medium groups of students, regardless of their ages. It is as useful at the elementary level as it is at the university level. Obviously, the questions asked would need to change according to the age and scholar level of the students. It is a wonderful tool to get the class engaged in a lecture-comprehension questionnaire. The reason behind Kahoot being suitable for such a large range of students is because it depends merely on the professor to take advantage of this tool, which makes it perfect for all types of school regardless of the age of students. Kahoot may not be as useful for large groups (30+), as due to the leaderboard system it has, some students may not care enough to put effort into answering the questions.
Stacey Stearns | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We are using Kahoot! in our department to engage youth and college students and test their knowledge on subject areas in a fun way. We use it with the youth and college students individually and in a team format. Although we are using it, I believe that many others in departments across the university are also using it in their classroom settings. I know this from informal conversations, but we don't have a university-wide license. Most of us are using the free education model.
  • Engages learners
  • Keeps it fun
  • Provides instant feedback
  • Is easy to use
  • It requires access to technology (students smartphones, iPads, etc.)
  • It would be easier if we could program the Kahoot ID into our presentations ahead of time. You have to activate it right before you start using it so there is always a moment's delay as we get organized before the students access it.
  • If you use it often enough you'll hear the music that plays during the game in your head even outside of the classroom.
Kahoot! is fun, the students like it, and it engages them with the activity. You can make it a group or individual activity and they test their knowledge without too much pressure. The game does all the scoring for you and provides updates after every question. It's really easy to use and provides interaction in the middle or end of a presentation.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Kahoot! is my favorite tool to engage with my students. It's great for reviewing information, and students really enjoy it. I usually do games at the end of the class and students have told me that it helps them to retain the information. It's especially helpful for me as a professor in order to assess how many (and which) students are understanding the concepts. Then, I can reinforce that missing information with the students. It's fast, easy, fun, and exciting.
  • Reviewing class topics is fast, and it's hard to cheat due to timers.
  • Kahoot! music is exciting (my students even sing it).
  • Easy to prepare quizzes and easy for students to use
  • Great design and colors
  • Free version is limited, but it's still pretty good.
  • Slow connections impair students.
  • Your quizzes are public by default, so your students can just search your username and read the answers and cheat if you are not aware of this. (You can set them to only you, though.)
Kahoot! is great for online classes. You can make assessments, topic reviews, and even just plain games to engage with your class. It's especially great for short, timed problems that students can answer in a couple of seconds instead of harder questions. However, this is less appropriate if you are hosting a game with a bad network since it WILL encounter problems.
September 17, 2020

Online quiz platform

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Kahoot! is used by the whole institution in the institution where I have been working for 2 years. After all the activities held in the company, a competition is held on Kahoot!. It is very fast to download and install, it is compatible with Android and IOS. It's easy to create quizzes on Kahoot!. Anyone can create quizzes without any training. It has a user-friendly and simple design. The only shortcoming is that the answers are not written on the mobile application, only the figures are shown. Reading the answers over the projection and matching them with the figure can cause a waste of time.
  • Does not require membership.
  • Ready-made quizzes can be used or we can create our own quizzes.
  • Access is available from mobile, computer and tablet.
  • Historical reporting feature.
  • People who answer the exam do not write chic, only shapes appear.
  • Not popular enough.
  • There is only English language support.
I used Kahoot! for the first time when I started this establishment. It was said that there will be a competition on Kahoot! at the end of a training. Since I did not have enough time to download the application, I opened it through the browser and joined the application. Since I did not have any information about the application, I could not answer the question because I could not see any answer on my phone in the first question.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Kahoot! has been used in the classrooms for in-class small quizzes in many departments in our institute. Since it is relatively simple to set up questions on Kahoot!, teachers like to use it to engage students in class and deliver knowledge while playing games. Some courses which need drawings or somewhat computer-aided calculations may not tend to use it since Kahoot! does not support those features as other types of tools do.
  • It can be used on mobile phones in addition to computers, making it easier to access it during the pandemic.
  • Register to play for educators for free or reduced price.
  • Enhanced interaction between teachers and students by using this program in the class.
  • Be able to set groups and people in these groups for the same game.
  • Be able to support more file types for videos and figures.
  • Be able to provide more online courses available to users.
In classes involving more text content and reading than computation and design drawing, like talking about communication skills, marketing strategies, etc., Kahoot! can be used effectively for students and teachers to understand the course content. In engineering classes which would include calculations, drawings, and coding, Kahoot! may not have the best features to include these content in the program.
Matthew Gardner | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Kahoot! is used by our Customer Success and Launch team to run interactive quizzes to supplement and engage users during on training and onboarding. It helps to keep end users paying attention during our training sessions (which now happen remotely, often to work from home employees who can easily not pay attention to the session) by forcing them to interact with quizzes and also encourages them by us offering prizes mailed to the Kahoot! quiz winners.
  • Engaging participants.
  • Easy to build quizzes.
  • Fun user experience.
  • Pricing, need a credit card for trial.
  • Holdback too many features on lower plans.
  • Starting to feel bloated.
Kahoot! is great for hosting games for many participants and can be used internally for employee onboarding and engagement, or externally as part of customer experience and training. We use it externally as a tool to train end customers and it works great. Kahoot! as it expands feels less designed for one-hit use cases like this and angling towards a continuous learning type model.
Natalie Shrestha | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Kahoot! to bring action to lessons. Students can test their knowledge without fearing the embarrassment of speaking up in class.
  • Easy to build the questions
  • Easy for students to get the app
  • Fun pictures and visuals
  • The free version only offers very limited types of questions.
  • Needs to be better about getting product name out there
  • Would be nice to have options in the free category for an organization to house all quizzes
Kahoot! is well suited for classroom games, student life activities, and orientation events. It is not suited for formal evaluation of students.
Gina Ruffcorn | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Kahoot is being used in our elementary and high school education classrooms. It has been used across many grade bands and in many content areas. Kahoot excites and engages all learners. Teachers can easily interpret the detailed results from classroom Kahoot activities and make educational decisions to benefit all students. As Kahoot continues to add features and options to the platform, teachers and students benefit tremendously.
  • Kahoot is dedicated to engaging all types of people as they learn, in a fun and interactive way.
  • Kahoot continues to add features that benefit all types of learners.
  • Kahoot offers blogs, videos, and many opportunities to learn more about their platform.
  • Kahoot is intuitive and incredibly user friendly!
  • I would like to see Kahoot add the image reveal option to the Puzzle builder.
  • I would enjoy having the option to change the music while the question timer is running.
I have consistently and actively used Kahoot in my classroom for six years. It is one of the only educational platforms that has withstood the test of time for my students. The continued changes and updates to the platform keep Kahoot fresh. The company is open and receptive to suggestions and feedback to help them continue to improve the product.
February 29, 2020

Kahoot! For The Win!

Laura Steinbrink | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Kahoot! is one of the top engaging tools for reviewing/previewing information. My organization (school district) uses Kahoot! to preview and review content, gamify information to disseminate at meetings, and to hold various competitions. By using Kahoot! in staff meetings and classrooms, we can increase the engagement and retainment of information by participants. Kahoot! adds that layer of fun needed to energize meetings, training, and the daily grind. Classroom teachers use it as well as the administrative staff to facilitate meetings when yearly information has to go out, like policy reviews, updates, and additions. There's nothing like a challenging competition to get the staff or students actively engaging in content!
  • Kahoot! has broadened its range of music that plays while a game is active to allow choice by the host.
  • Kahoot! has added student-paced mode, which allows learners to learn when and where it is convenient for them.
  • Being able to mix different question types has been one of the most popular feature requests by users and Kahoot! listened! You can now add a poll for a quick pulse check, slides for more explanation or context, and you can even toss in an open-ended question for deeper understanding.
  • Kahoot! continues to update & improve! From new game options, such as double points or turning off points, extended timer (up to four minutes) to the intriguing image reveals, Kahoot! knows how to listen and respond to product users.
  • The push to upgrade current account status by making it difficult to access content immediately upon logging in does get annoying.
  • Online reports are limited unless you purchase the premium features by upgrading your account.
  • Organizing Kahoot! by category or subject area is also not available, at least not in the free version at this time.
Kahoot! is great for previewing and reviewing content, spicing up yearly content that must be covered, bringing excitement and competition into a meeting, and helping participants bond through polls and other question types that can facilitate or jump-start discussions. With the new student-paced mode, Kahoot! can now be used for employees to learn new information without having to attend meetings or broaden their skill sets by using Kahoot!. To help employees earn badges or certifications within the company or for staff/students within a school. Some of the best features, though, are only for the premium customers, and that can make it difficult for smaller companies and school districts to get the most out of Kahoot!.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Kahoot! is a great tool to maintain people's focus on learning. I did some training, and test knowledge with Kahoot! is the best choice.
  • Easy to use
  • It has a free version
  • Beautiful User Interface
  • The free version has a lot of limits
It's perfect for testing knowledge and maintaining students with a focus on presentations.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I have used Kahoot! in the past to test my teams knowledge of products and processes in a fun way.
  • Creates a fun way to test your knowledge
  • Allows you to assess you team's knowledge
  • Allows you to track results
  • I'd like to see more options in regard to how the quizzes appear to users.
  • Like to be able to create multiple quizzes and users take them at random.
I have found Kahoot! fun, interactive, and helpful.
February 28, 2020

Kahoot is a winner!

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
The entire county has access to utilizing Kahoot! in the classroom. We use the program to engage students in learning. You can input your own data or use something that already exists. Students are tested on the material/vocabulary in a game format that is stimulating, engaging, and challenging. Students get instant feedback on their progress as compared to other classmates. It is a wonderful study tool.
  • Classroom Engagement
  • Friendly competition
  • Build study skills
  • Adding pictures and videos for MC options
  • More searchable options
Kahoot! does an excellent job of building engagement for students while also building their study skills/habits.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Kahoot! is used as a formative assessment tool able to quickly identify how many students are understanding a concept. We then use that data to inform our instruction to see if there is anything additional we need to do to reach our students. It's a very fast, fun, and engaging tool.
  • Review.
  • Assessment.
  • Identify individual users.
  • More game modes.
Kahoot! is great for reviewing concepts for students and adults. It's an engaging, fast-paced program. It's great for middle school students as they want to compete against each other and Kahoot! provides that venue. It is not great as a teaching tool because you need to have some prior knowledge of the questions before engaging with the game.
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