Use of Kahoot! to keep students’ motivation during online classes in the lockdown period caused by Covid 19

Miguel Martín-Sómer,Judite Moreira,Cintia Casado

doi:10.1016/j.ece.2021.05.005

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COVID 19 lockdown forced a general move of teaching activities from their on-site mode to remote producing different negative consequences for students. In this work, the use of Kahoot! platform was studied to keep students’ interest during online teaching. For this, Kahoot! games were carried out for the different topics of a university subject. The data analysis revealed that a high participation implies an improvement in the final marks. Additionally, questions response time was also extracted serving as a reference for remote exams. On the other hand, two surveys were carried out in which the students showed that the transfer from face-to-face to remote teaching had produced a general decrease in interest that can be mitigated by performing Kahoot! games.

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On 31 December 2019, the Wuhan Municipal Health Commission (China) reported a conglomerate of pneumonia cases in the city (Lu et al, 2020) that were later determined to be caused by a new corona virus known as SARS-CoV-2
As a summary of this survey, it can be said that the students consider that the use of regular quizzes, and the use of Kahoot! in a positive way and helped them maintain interest during the online teaching and improve the degree of learning achieved
The transfer of university lectures to remote due to the pandemic situation has been detrimental to students, producing a decrease in their interest in studies and in their degree of learning

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On 31 December 2019, the Wuhan Municipal Health Commission (China) reported a conglomerate of pneumonia cases in the city (Lu et al, 2020) that were later determined to be caused by a new corona virus known as SARS-CoV-2. The quick transmission of the virus throughout the planet causes that on 11 March 2020 the World Health Organization (WHO) declare COVID-19 as a pandemic (Ratten and Jones, 2020). A large part of the world’s population was forced to partially or totally confine themselves to their homes, causing tremen dous repercussions in all sectors of society (Gambin et al, 2021; Nicola et al, 2020). The education sector was affected by the COVID-19 crisis at all levels from preschool to university and caused the cancellation of numerous academic congresses (Ali et al, 2021; Alkho wailed et al, 2020; Impey, 2020). On 25 May 2020 there were 990 million students affected in the world (56.6 % of the total number of students enrolled) and schools had been forced to close in 130 countries (UNESCO, 2020)

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