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10 Feb 2025

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5 tips to supercharge student engagement in your classroom with Kahoot!

Learn how you can use Kahoot! as more than just a quiz to take student engagement to the next level!

As educators, we continually seek effective methods to keep students engaged, motivated, and actively involved in the learning process. Traditional approaches often fall short in capturing students’ attention, but what if there was a way to make learning interactive, enjoyable, and impactful? With these 5 tips, you can transform the classroom experience with Kahoot!, making it more engaging for your students whether in K-12 or higher education classrooms.

1. Enhance collaboration with Kahootopia

Kahoot! is more than just a quiz tool; it’s an interactive platform offering a learning experience that fosters collaboration. With the introduction of Kahootopia, students can work together, engage with content creatively, and participate actively in the learning process while building their island based on the subjects they are learning. 

Kahootopia promotes a collaborative classroom environment, ensuring that all students are involved in discussions, sharing ideas, and learning from one another. Every student can be included and involved, even those who may be shy or hesitant to speak in traditional settings.

5 tips to keep high student engagement Kahootopia

2. Challenge your students with new ways to play Kahoot!

Kahoot! offers various game modes, each designed to engage students differently. Beyond the traditional kahoot format, you and your students can also explore more interactive modes like Color Kingdoms, Chill Art, Submarine Squad, Tallest Tower, Treasure Trove, The Lost Pyramid, Robot Run, or Cosmic Conquest. These games provide dynamic and exciting learning environments, developed by experts to ensure that the learning experience is not only enjoyable but also effective. These game modes help students and teachers to reinforce key concepts and stimulate creative problem-solving, serving as a proven method for embedding knowledge and encouraging active learning. Why not replay an existing kahoot with a new game mode.

3. Facilitate class discussion and critical thinking

When you use Kahoot! In the classroom, you can challenge your students to go beyond merely choosing the correct answers to questions. One of the most beneficial aspects of introducing Kahoot! is that it fosters critical thinking and creates opportunities for class discussions. We have heard this firsthand from multiple educators, including Fernando Tapia Gallardo, from Universidad de Atacama in Chile.

 

“Kahoot! is an invaluable tool in my teaching, transforming learning into an enjoyable and engaging experience. It keeps my students active and fosters critical thinking, teamwork, and discussion as they explore nursing challenges in depth. I’ve observed how it helps them develop essential skills like situation assessment and leadership, with someone always stepping into a leadership role—a unique quality in nursing. Beyond mastering concepts, Kahoot! nurtures the diverse qualities needed for success in the nursing profession.”

Fernando Herrera Gallardo, Vice President at Universidad de Atacama

Kahoot! naturally encourages students to share their thoughts during and after the game, facilitating deeper discussions. The competitive aspect injects energy into the classroom while serving as a springboard for meaningful conversations. By inviting everyone to contribute, Kahoot! helps develop essential skills such as communication, collaboration, and problem-solving, all of which are crucial for future success.

4. Use AI in your favor and find new ways to interact with your students

AI tools have proven to save teachers valuable time while enhancing classroom engagement. However, many teachers have also shared with us how they are using AI to create interactive lesson plans and explore new, more engaging ways to explain topics. Judith Cooper, a teacher at École MacNeil, a French immersion school in Manitoba, Canada, shared this perspective:

 

“I’m always trying new things, exploring ideas, and learning. If I can find a way to do something beneficial, I want to understand it before teaching the kids. There are times when I use AI and ask, ‘What is this? Can you help me with this?”

Judith Cooper, Teacher at École MacNeil in Manitoba, Canada.

5. Benefit from proven results

Research has demonstrated that using Kahoot! regularly in the classroom positively impacts student achievement, retention, and motivation. The interactive and gamified nature of Kahoot! helps students retain knowledge more effectively and fosters a desire to learn. In the recent research published by Professor Osman Ozdemir, he highlights that the introduction of Kahoot! in the classroom has a positive effect on students’ academic achievement as it helps them to boost their study performance. Moreover, this research shows that incorporating Kahoot! on a regular basis helps with students’ knowledge retention and motivation in the classroom. These findings reaffirm years of independent research on the learning benefits of Kahoot!, which has led to Kahoot! being widely recognized as a trusted learning solution


If you are a teacher interested in finding new ways to use Kahoot! in your classroom, check out Kahoot!+, our all-in-one teaching toolkit. Or, find out how you can bring next-level learning and engagement to your school, school district, or teacher group with Kahoot! EDU.

 

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