Blooket

We all remember when Kahoot! made it's way into almost every single classroom in existence in some way, shape, or form several years ago. I was in college when Kahoot! was developed and I had professors using the quiz game for exam reviews and peers using it for their semester end projects. Well, all those classrooms need to make room for the newest quiz game in town named Blooket. 

Blooket is extremely similar to Kahoot! anyone can set up a quiz and invite their students, peers, or friends to take their quiz. There must be a host who provides players with their game code that way it's a safe environment and the host can control participants and participation. 

Blooket has countless default quizzes for anyone to view and play. However, not all of them are educationally based. As I was scrolling through the dozens of preset quizzes I saw several that were math and history related and then right next to it a quiz that was based off of cartoons. While I do think this website offers several very beneficial quizzes, teachers would have to closely monitor if students were hosting quizzes themselves during school hours to play leisure quizzes. 

I decided to try and create my own quiz and the website seemed super user friendly. It's easy to navigate and all settings are clear on the first page. On this first page the teacher or quiz creator can add in whatever image they wish to be the face of the quiz, a title, and a description. The creator then chooses the privacy settings and creates the quiz. 

You can't take a quiz without questions though, right?! Now comes the fun part, creating the questions and filling in possible answers. I truly thought this process would be much harder than it was but it was incredibly simple. I simply had to write my question, give four possible answers, and then select the correct response. For each question you can choose the length of time players have to respond and whether or not answers will appear at random.

What makes Blooket stand out from Kahoot! is there are different game play modes available for players. This is where the true element of fun comes in for students. They feel as if they are playing a video game but the only way they can progress to this game play is by answering questions correctly. Game modes can be changed when beginning the quiz. 

Overall, while there are many quiz sets that are not educational. Blooket is another great resource for teachers to use in their classrooms for exam reviews, pop quizzes, or Friday afternoon activities. Students also have the ability to take advantage of creating sets for course projects or activities. It's a safe and free resource that can be accessed anywhere at anytime by simply entering a game code. 

Click on the link provided to check out Blooket for yourself:  https://www.blooket.com/play