1. Comparison of and Practical Uses of Kahoot and
Quizlet to Extend Instruction
Crystal James

2. About Me ESL Teacher at NOCE and ABC Adult School
Multilevel offsite/on-site and levelled classes
Using Quizlet and Kahoot for over 6 months successfully
NOT a total expert on Quizlet and Kahoot - Sorry!

3. What are Quizlet and Kahoot?
Quizlet: A site/app where teachers and students can make sets of matching vocabulary terms and definitions (or pictures). These sets can be used to play individual games with, study from, or create a live in-class quiz game.
Kahoot: A site you can find and/or create multiple choice, ordering or other live student response quizzes where students participate using smart devices.

4. What Ways Can Students Practice?
Quizlet
Flashcards, Matching, Spelling, timed games, images/audio (in paid version)
Great for VOCABULARY
No possibility to create multiple choice questions with answers not in the set you created
You can ask students to study sets at home (also integrates with Google Classroom)

5. What Ways Can Students Practice?
Kahoot
Quiz - Multiple choice
Jumble (4 pieces in order)
Discussion (one question)
Survey (no points given)

6. Paid Features Kahoot Quizlet There is no paid version
$34.99/year Paid (less than $3/mo)
Track Student Progress
Add images and audio to sets
Unlimited classes instead of 8
Quizlet Live Customizations
Teacher-only search
Kahoot
There is no paid version
Images, video, and audio can be added for free!

7. Is There At Home Practice?
Quizlet
With a free account students can:
join your class
study word sets you add to the class
at home or in class
on their computers, smartphones, or tablets
create their own word sets to study
Search for and save other students’ word sets
share word sets with each other
Without an account they can search for and practice word sets but not save them or compete.
Kahoot
Only LIVE in-class practice
There is no at home study or practice
Homework quizzes/practice cannot be assigned

8. Can I Share and Find Shared Content?
Kahoot
Public quizzes are available
Made by other teachers (mostly)
Can be:
Favorited
copied and modified
Example: question time limits can be changed
Used as-is.
Quizlet
There are many shared sets which can be:
copied and modified
Added to your class
Used as-is.
Copy Share Add Info More

9. What Is The In-Class Quiz Like?
Quizlet - quizlet.live
No accounts needed - just a pin
Students participate in teams to try to match words to their definitions. Teams are randomly assigned but you can shuffle them.
Each device in the team have words that could match the definitions from the word set.
Only one device has the correct answer on it.
You can mix up the teams by shuffling them.
The progress bar will reset if a team misses a question

10. What Is The In-Class Quiz Like?
Kahoot - kahoot.it
No accounts needed - just a pin!
Quiz -Multiple Choice
Like a multiple choice test
can have multiple correct answers
Students choose the correct color/symbol for their answer using their phone
Jumble
Students are required to put 4 elements in order
Both game/quiz types are available in Team or Classic mode
Team - One device per group of students
Classic - One device per student

11. Difficulties Not every student has a smart phone **
Older students sometimes have issues with either quiz platform because of a lack of technology experience **
If you want to sign students up to be in your class on Quizlet it takes time and they need an address **
The Quizlet app takes up space and not every phone has available space, however students can still use Quizlet via the browser on their phone and the app isn’t used for quizlet.live

12. Successes
Quizlet:
Students practicing after finishing their work without prompting
Students making their own sets (sometimes in their language)
Students studying competitively creates motivation
Extends instruction beyond the classroom
Kahoot:
Entire class engagement
Challenging questions reinforce important distinctions
Useful informal assessment
Students ask when we are going to do Kahoot.it or Quizlet.live next. Both are FUN!

13. Final Notes and Discussion
Difficulties -> Creative solutions
Benefits outweigh the difficulties
How do you think you can incorporate either Kahoot or Quizlet into your classes?
How can we overcome some of the difficulties associated with using either platform?

14. Thank You!