This is how faculty members at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, use Kahoot! to foster active learning, student connections, and faculty collaboration

For her own courses, Megan kicks off her semesters with Kahoot! as a class icebreaker. With 200 students in class, she uses Kahoot! to engage them as a group and foster connections between them and with her. For example, she invites students to share their backgrounds with the Drop-Pin question type. "I give them a map where they can pin where they're from. It'll show the United States, and you'll see a ton of pins in the northeast and a ton of pins in the Tennessee area, and then a bunch that are even outside the map, because they're foreign students. We have conversations after this, because I invite students to call out their pin and tell us where they're from." Later in the kahoot, students can give their first impressions of class in a word cloud, giving students a voice and helping them get to know each other even better.

Casey Norris, a professor of Nursing at UT, has also been taking advantage of Kahoot!'s flexible format and variety of question types to create more comprehensive learning experiences:

"I teach Pathophysiology in Nursing, which is probably one of the hardest nursing classes, so my co-teacher at the time and I were trying to figure out ways to add questions to class. I really don't like clickers, so we were looking for another option. That's when Kahoot! started adding different types of questions, and a lot of them helped me with our Next Gen NCLEX," (a nationwide licensure exam for nursing in the United States, Canada, and Australia). "So when I moved here to UT, I just totally built my class through Kahoot!."

For Casey, the key to energize and engage students throughout the class has been switching it up with different question formats, video content, and using kahoot questions as a springboard for discussion. By utilizing a variety of content and question types, Casey not only keeps the experience fresh and interesting, but also provides students with more ways to take in information and build understanding.