Item: Kahoot!
Rating: 9
Author: Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Kahoot!

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

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.

Pros and Cons

Pros

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.

Cons

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.

Return on Investment

Kahoot has been a great tool to achieve our objectives by enabling professors to have more engaging classes.

Support Rating

Usability

As I said in this review, Kahoot is overall an amazing, engaging, and innovative tool, however, it still needs to be polished in certain aspects (regarding its punctuation system and leaderboards) to be more useful for professors and enabling them to obtain insights after each round of Kahoot! played by students.

Key Insights

Do you think Kahoot! delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Kahoot!'s feature set?

Yes

Did Kahoot! live up to sales and marketing promises?

I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process

Did implementation of Kahoot! go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Kahoot! again?

Yes

Likelihood to Recommend

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.

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Kahoot for university? Yes!