What is Kahoot? (And What is a Kahoot Game Pin?)

What is Kahoot?

Put simply, Kahoot is a creation tool for designing your own games. What makes Kahoot stand out from the crowd is its focus on generating education games.

There’s a vast array of education games available online, but Kahoot is a free-to-use powerful creation tool giving you the ability to create your own games.

If you feel like there’s an area of education left untapped (maybe you need a fun game to show kids the difference between a verb and a noun, and no one has beaten you to it) then you can fill that hole in the market with a creation of your own. 

What is a Kahoot game pin?

The Kahoot game pin is a single-use generated code that you use to log in to a live game. Basically, it’s a password you use to access a game you like the look of.

If somebody beat you to the finish line and cracked out that ‘verb vs noun’ game before you got a chance, then you can use a game pin to log in to their game – well, you or your students.

Because that’s why we’re all really here, right? We want to know how we can use this in classes to better help our students.

How to use Kahoot as a teacher?

Using Kahoot as a teacher is a no-brainer. You know that feeling you get when you ‘discover’ something? When you see an actor in a movie or watch a band for the first time, and you think to yourself ‘yeah, they’re going to be big one day’? That feeling of having found them before they blow up? 

In incorporating Kahoot in your classes you’ll be ahead of the curve, providing your students with access to something that’s on the brink of becoming mainstream within the next few years.

Your students will already be familiar with the systems and software through you having included it in your teaching regime – this is going to set them up wonderfully for their next step in life, and that’s what teaching is all about, right?

Kahoot.it provides you with the ability to create your own games, as we said; so this means you’ll be able to generate games for mixed ability classes, or even target specific skill sets you want to develop. There really aren’t that many other services providing this function, and certainly not with the ease of access assured by Kahoot.

How does the Kahoot challenge work?

The Kahoot challenge is the name given to the systems by which you can be entered onto the Kahoot leaderboard. 

Design your games with an element of competition and you’ll have a quick way to rank your players by ability. 

It’s one of those features proving very popular with casual users, but a word for warning for you teachers out there: children do not like being told they’re losers… they won’t respond well to coming at the bottom of a leaderboard. 

If you really want to make use of this feature, how about you just do a ‘top 3’? If you rank all of the children in your lessons then you’re going to get tears after class… 

Why use Kahoot to create?

One of the most frequently asked questions we get regarding Kahoot is ‘why should I use it over a competitor?’ 

To which we respond: what competitor? 

Can you honestly tell us another service providing this level of functionality and powerful generation technology? Because we can’t think of any. 

Sure, there are other services out there providing you the ability to play games. But how many let you make them? How many let you make them like this? 

So if you need a way to spice up your classes, then Kahoot could certainly help. Or if you're looking to step into the world of teach from home jobs, then you can find a list of platforms below…