Kahoot! vs GoGuardian: Which is a better fit?

Amanda: Hi, my name's Amanda. I'm a coding coach and I give Kahoot! five out of five stars. We use Kahoot! in our classrooms and our at home learning modules to ensure that students have access to all the information that they need, as well as engaging interactive study review sessions that they can do at home or in class. I love Kahoot! because not only is it easy to use from the teacher side, but it's easy to use from the student side. Students can use it on their phones, on their computer. I can display it on our smart boards or our projectors. It's very versatile and we can use it to do a lot of things educationally. I wish Kahoot! had a little bit more options for student engagement, such as freeze times or like a little game that they could be playing during the Kahoot! I know a couple of competitors have similar things like that, and my students really enjoy that engaging aspect.

Alexis Z.: Hi, my name is Alexis, and I am an English II teacher. My company size is between 5,000 to 10,000 people, and my rating for GoGuardian is five out of five stars. I came to learn about GoGuardian through my current school district. When I joined, they were utilizing this program. I had never heard of it before, but they provided us a training, and I noticed many features that were very appealing to me that I could use in the classroom. There are many features of GoGuardian that stand out to me to be absolutely fantastic. First, when students are working on a Chromebook, I can easily monitor what they are doing. I'm also able to address off-task behaviors in the moment by chatting through students through GoGuardian's chat system. Also, I find that when students are working on essays, utilizing GoGuardian and its chat system makes it very efficient and easy for me to check all the students' work very quickly and provide efficient feedback. For example, when I am looking through GoGuardian on my Chromebook, I can check each student's work as they are working in the moment, and then I can send them feedback right away. This allows me to check many students in a shorter amount of time than it would be if I was to go student by student. I also like how I am given a report about all of the websites that students access after I close my GoGuardian session. Getting started with GoGuardian was extremely easy. Once I logged in, I could see all of my classes, and all of my rosters were already available to me. All I had to do was start the session, which was very self-explanatory and easy to do. One bit of advice I would give to someone who is looking at getting started with GoGuardian is to utilize it for all of its great features, but to also keep in mind that there are certain workarounds for students that allow students to put a screen up and seem like they are working, but they're actually not. They're playing a game. So I would advise that you watch each student diligently as on the computer as they are working, and make sure that they are working on the page they're supposed to be working on. If you don't see any movement, then you might want to go check on that student.