Is it even better than Kahoot?

Hello and welcome back to my blog! I haven't checked up on the site in a while but there's a new tool I'd like to post about - It's called Quizizz. In my classroom I always want to try and engage my students and make learning fun. I'm sure most teachers have this same goal but there's always the battle between is it fun enough but also engaging enough? Is learning really taking place or are the kids just messing around?

I've explored and used Kahoot in the past and while I do love it (and so do the kids) I don't like how focused the game is on racing. So often my students rush through the questions and just hope they guess correctly. Quizizz allows students to work at their own pace and they do NOT get extra points for answering quickly (although you can add that setting if you'd like to). A running total is kept up on the board and funny memes pop up for the kids in between every question! See images below.

I would DEFINITELY recommend this tool as a quick review and I usually use it in my intervention class which is a small group of 6-12 students. I did try using it as a full class and it was definitely effective but extreme classroom management was needed - might try doing it in teams next time.

You can search pre-made quizizz by topic or create one on your own.




You can then organize your quizizz into groups or "collections" and keep your classes organized. This is especially helpful when teaching different subject areas and grade levels.





Keep the leaderboard up so students can see who is in the top five and how the class is doing as a whole in terms of accuracy. The students are finished when they reach the end of the bar BUT speed doesn't help. If they get all the questions wrong and their bar is all red, they WON'T win.




At the end, look at the statistics for each question per kid. This definitely helped guide my focus when it comes to review questions. I only focused on the questions that most if not all students missed.