Advanced settings for Kahoots
To get more out of your Kahoot you may wish to customise the in-game settings. Options allow for player identification, display questions and answers, characters, randomisation of questions and more.
Updating Kahoot settings
To review the quiz settings, open the quiz as if to begin a new quiz session.
Select the Start button to activate your Kahoot.
Then locate and select the Settings icon, located in the bottom-right-hand corner of your browser window.
To get more from your Kahoot quiz, you may wish to review the following settings:
Settings and recommendations
Settings | Description | Use |
|---|---|---|
| Enable this game option for all players when you’re hosting a live Kahoot in person or virtually. Once it’s on, the players will be able to see questions and answers on their devices where they can directly submit responses. It may be especially useful when your players find it problematic to use an additional device to view the host's screen. | Recommended |
| Player identification allows you to track student performance across multiple games. Once you or your team have hosted multiple games with player identifier on, you’ll be able to combine reports into one. Player identification can also be used in an assigned Kahoot (see below). | Recommended |
| This is automatically defaulted to OFF. Additional player customisation, players can choose and customise how they are presented from pre-made options throughout the game. Characters are only available for use in Classic Live Game Mode. This option is fun for students and could be a useful addition during an icebreaker session. It is up to the educator to decide if this option would pose a distraction for their students and to consider the time allocated for their Kahoot. | Optional |
| As host you can change the default game theme via the game settings with pre-formatted or your own themes. | Optional |
| The default language is English (US) for all SCU Kahoots. The app and platform are translated into English, Spanish, French, Brazilian, Portuguese, German, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Turkish, Polish, Norwegian, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Arabic, Ukrainian, Korean, Swedish and Danish. Players participating in a live game can use the language selector in the top right-hand of the screen to make an individual selection. Group language settings can be changed by the presenter in the settings panel. Default lobby music is set at Original. | Recommended |
| Playing the same Kahoot twice? Questions and answers can be shuffled to challenge your players. Autoplay will automatically progress the Kahoot. | Recommended |
| This feature allows players to practice any questions they got wrong. The Kahoot app is required for this option. | Optional |
| Generates friendly nicknames for players – avoiding possible naughty nicknames that some students cannot resist! 2-step join generates a unique pattern at login to keep out unwanted guests. | Optional |
Next: Assigning a Kahoot!