Become a Kahoot! trainer expert with the Kahoot! Trainer Academy

Hone your craft as a trainer

Being a trainer means constantly moving between the big picture and the details.

One moment, you might be figuring out whether training is actually the right answer to a request. The next, you’re deciding how much information to put on a slide, writing a question that tests more than simple recall, or working out how to get a quiet room talking.

That range is reflected in the Trainer Academy.

You can learn how to take a training request through the five phases of ADDIE, or turn a vague request into a clearer scope before you start building anything.

You can dig into how learning works: how cognitive load affects what information people can absorb, how adult-learning principles hold up in mandatory training, and how spacing, interleaving, and retrieval practice can help people remember something weeks later.

There are courses for improving your live training skills, too. You can learn a simple structure for opening a session so people know where they are, why they’re there, and what they’re working toward. In addition, look at practical ways to reduce evaluation anxiety so people are more willing to participate, ask questions and get things wrong in front of one another.

And because training rarely fits neatly into “live” or “self-paced,” you can find a course on blended learning, with workplace examples and a before/during/after approach you can apply to your own training.

Start with the problem in front of you

With the Kahoot! 360 Trainer Academy, you can jump in anywhere and learn the skills you need most.

If you’re building a course this week, you might start with How to reduce cognitive load in your training materials. If someone has just dropped a fuzzy, “We need training on this” request into your inbox, Turning a training request into a real plan has got you covered

Running a session tomorrow? Try Opening a live training session with Arrive, Activate, Aim. Building something in Kahoot!? There are courses on choosing the right question types and creating a complete self-paced Kahoot! Course with assignments and reporting.

Each Kahoot! 360 Trainer Academy course is designed to be short enough to fit into trainers’ busy schedules. Pick one that helps with the problem in front of you, spend just ten minutes learning, and put a new insight or skill you learn into practice.

Learn it. Try it. Add the next skill.

The idea behind the Trainer Academy is simple: becoming a better trainer doesn’t have to mean disappearing into a week-long certification program.

Instead, it can mean learning to scope your next training request more efficiently, ask a better question in the next session, design an activity that prompts information retrieval or make it a little safer for someone in the room to say, “I don’t understand.”

Complete a course and you can earn a certificate to share, including on LinkedIn. 

After you complete a course, when you have another ten minutes, pick the next skill you want to improve and keep learning.

Get started by visiting the 360 Trainer Academy channel today.