Blooket is a popular educational website. Both teachers and students appreciate it – teachers for its ability to increase class participation, and students for its entertaining games and the charming Blook characters.
If you want to make your classroom sessions more enjoyable, this guide will teach you all you need to know about hosting Blooket games.
How To Host Blooket Game
Step 1: Choose (or Create!) Your Blooket Set
The heart of any Blooket game is a question set. Here are your options:
- Discover: Explore the huge library of pre-made Blooket sets on a variety of topics. You can search by subject, grade level, or keyword.
- My Sets: If you’ve already created your own question sets, this is where you’ll find them.
- Create: Make your own custom question set tailored perfectly to your lesson. You can even add images to your questions!
Step 2: Select a Game Mode
Blooket offers a ton of exciting game modes to keep things fresh. Some of the most popular options include:
- Classic: A straightforward race to answer questions correctly and earn the most points.
- Gold Quest: The students answer questions to gain gold and steal from others.
- Cafe: Students turn into cashiers, selling their knowledge by answering questions to earn some cash.
- Factory: Teams work together to answer questions correctly and build the best factory.
Study the game mode descriptions to choose the best one for your team.
Step 3: Customize Your Game Settings
Before you host, Blooket lets you fine-tune your game with these settings:
- Time or Goal: Decide if you want your game based on achieving a point goal or a time limit.
- Late Joining: Toggle whether students can join after the game has started.
- Random Names: Automatically give students fun, random names or let them choose their own.
Step 4: Host Your Game!
Click “Host Now,” and you’ll get a unique game ID and a link to share with students. Here’s how they join:
- Go to play.blooket.com
- Enter the game ID to join Blooket
Step 5: Start the Fun!
Once your students are in, click “Start Game,” and let the competition begin! The Blooket screen will display questions and students will select answers on their devices.
Conclusion
The above steps are now your ultimate guide to start hosting quiz games on Blooket. Also, try to preview question sets before you host a game. Especially pre-made ones, to ensure the content and difficulty are appropriate.