Cool Things You Can Do in Classkick

Tips and Tricks to getting the most out of Classkick

Connect Your Device to a Projector

One way to use Classkick is to hook your iPad or computer to a projector, just like when you use PowerPoint. The questions show up on the big screen and you can model processes or make changes to questions on the fly. When students join Classkick from their devices, they see the same question content on their own devices, and answer questions at their own pace.

You can also project your Whole Class View, allowing everyone to see each student’s individual answers. In this option, you could have students (or teams of students) racing to answer questions, checking their placement from the projected view.

Google Classroom Connection

You can invite your Google Classroom class to join your Classkick assignment with ease.

1. Log into your Classkick account — http://app.classkick.com
2. Choose an Assignment and open the large Class Code display
3. Click on the Google Classroom icon to copy the direct link to your assignment with the Class Code already pre-filled and paste it into your Google Classroom

Don’t worry if your Google Classroom roster is out of date, or you have a guest in your classroom. They can still join the assignment by typing in the Class Code.

Create a Web Link

You can embed a link to a website into a Classkick question. When students view that question, they will be able to go directly to that website without ever having to copy and paste a URL.

1. Choose a question from an assignment. You can do that by logging into Classkick and clicking on an assignment.
2. Create a link object. Click the link icon, create a title, and enter a URL.
3. Students can navigate through the website you embedded from within the presentation.
4. If you are projecting, students can see instructions on the projector and explore the website on their own screen.
5. Ask a Follow-Up Question about what they discovered. You can do this by creating your question slide ahead of time, or add a new question on the fly.
6. Have students click back to the Classkick tab when they are ready to move on.

Here are some great sites you can link to in Classkick.

• Kahoot — Link to a review game
• Desmos — Link to a graphing calculator
• Google Maps — Link to a saved Google Map
• Sutori — Collaborate on visual stories
• TED — Watch a TED talk or link to a TED article
• National Geographic Mapmaker — Let students create cool maps layered with scientific data
• Duolingo — Link to a language lesson
• EDpuzzle — Create questions at particular points in a video. Then, link to them in Classkick for students to watch the video and answer at their own pace

Grade Questions Quickly

There are many tips and tricks when it comes to grading Classkick. Here are eight to help save you time:

1. Set Question Points

Grading papers can be one of the most time-consuming tasks for teachers. To save yourself some stress, consider setting a total point value for any question ahead of time. Once questions have been graded, each student score will be color-coded in your whole class view:

See all student grades color-coded at a glance using your whole class view!

2. Keyboard Shortcuts

Flipping back and forth between a mouse and a keyboard can be tedious, especially when entering numerical scores for students. We created a shortcut so teachers can tap the letter “G” for grading on their keyboard to automatically choose the grading box for a student’s question. You can quickly flip between students using the up and down arrows, and between questions using the right and left arrows. At any time, tap “G,” type a number, and press enter to save the student score.

3. Create an Answer Key

Students are displayed in alphabetical order in the whole class view. To create a quick Answer Key, login as student “_Key” so you are listed first alphabetically, and answer each question. Then, you can start grading by looking at the first question for _Key and use the arrow keys to quickly flip down through each student.

Log in as “_Key” to provide yourself with an example of expected answers for each question along the first row.

4. Use Stickers With Points

Have you ever created a cheat sheet with frequently-used comments from which you can copy and paste? We have implemented this option in Classkick and offered stickers and helpful point values to facilitate quick grading. No more copying and pasting — just click the sticker to give the saved feedback and points to the student immediately, with an optional cute sticker that students of all ages love!

Preprogram quick feedbacks with stickers and points to quickly grade and give students colorful stickers!

5. Show Student Work Off/On

It’s great to be able to see all student work updating live while you are working with students in class. But, after the students have left, it can be quicker to hide student work to see the entire class in one view. This also makes it faster to flip back and forth between a student’s question and your whole class view. Use the “Show Student Work” toggle to hide student work after class has ended and grade more quickly!

Toggle “Show Student Work” off after class to quickly glance at all of your student’s scores.

6. Switching Between Rosters

Did you provide an assignment to four separate classes today? You can quickly flip back and forth between rosters using the Roster Selector menu. Grade one class and compare results with another side by side by opening your whole class view in two separate windows!

Need to see work for a different class? Quickly switch between rosters using the Roster Selection Menu.

7. Allow Peer Helpers

Do you ever feel like you’re repeating yourself to students? With the use of Peer Helpers, you can have students provide each other with feedback. It’s a great way to empower your students to act as context experts and to ensure everyone in your class receives more feedback when they need it most. This option can also be turned on and off during a live session, if you would like students to be able to help only during the last five minutes of an assignment, for example.

Enable Peer Helpers and empower students to provide their classmates with feedback when they need it most!

8. Export to PDF

Now that you’ve graded all of your students’ assignments, feel free to export them to PDF to share with parents or colleagues! You can export all of your students’ work at once, or individual students, using the “Export to PDF” option.

Save, print, email, and upload student work to their digital portfolios by exporting it to PDF from Classkick.

Use Stickers

A Classkick sticker is a piece of feedback for your students. As students are completing assignments, you can choose to give stickers to each student. Here are some important things to know about a Classkick sticker:

1. A sticker has three optional components: an image, a typed message, and a point value.
2. When you provide stickers to students, they see the sticker instantly. If they are not looking at the question that received a sticker, they receive a green bell that notifies them of feedback received elsewhere.
3. Students can see the amount of points they earned for that sticker, and these points are automatically added to their score for the question.
4. The teacher can edit and/or remove stickers at any time. That means you can create stickers before the assignment begins to address common student misconceptions, and quickly provide individual students with the same feedback.
5. In addition to stickers, you can also provide students with feedback through drawing, typing, adding images, audio, and links.

Build Your Classroom Climate

Classkick assignments can include any type of content. By asking questions about a student’s mood and confidence, teachers can build rapport and help students reflect on their learning.

1. Consider which questions you want to ask. You can ask how a student feels at the beginning of an assignment, how confident they are about the material they learned at the end of an assignment, or both.
2. Create a question in your assignment for students to answer. For example, if you want to check how a student feels, you could include this question at the beginning of your assignment:

Or, if you wanted to check how the student felt the assignment went, you could include this question at the end:

You can have students return to this assignment in the future and reflect on those questions again, or track how your students feel over a variety of assessments.

Share a Classkick Assignment with Others

To share a Classkick assignment, click the “share” option.

You could share a link to Twitter or a blog post to provide an example to your social media network. Or, you can email to share an assignment with colleagues. In both cases, your audience can flip through your assignment and then make a copy of their own to use with their students.

Do you have more great ideas about cool things you can do in Classkick?
Please share them with us by saying hi@classkick.com!