Hi this is Russell Stannard from teacher training videos.com and one thing I often get asked is what
is survey in Kahoot how does a survey work and how does it differ from doing a quiz well essentially
the difference between survey and quizzes is not the way you actually create the quiz but that
really that a survey is for collecting information so you're looking for opinions rather than for a
right or a wrong answer I think the best way for me to demonstrate this is to actually do one so
I've just opened up a survey that I've created I'm going to click on preview previews the best
way to always look at your kahoots because you can see the students view here on the right hand side
or the student that each of you whoever you're doing the survey with and of course you're in
control here so I'm always used classic mode so that the only one person needs to put in their
name and what I'm gonna do here now is this it will quickly generate a pin so I just simply
put that number in I click on enter I write my name and you'll notice that straight away then
my name will now appear on the left hand side of the screen and we're ready to start the game
so we click on start here and you'll see that the first question will come up on the screen
and you'll see exactly what the student although whoever you're asking any questions to will see so
we've got four questions and basically we've got to answer so I'm going to click here and
then what will happen now is that it will give us some survey information about how many people have
asked or answered the question and put the first answer the second answer the third or the fourth
now in this particular case of course we've only got me answering the questions because I'm doing
a test here but you can see that it doesn't give points for who got the answer wrong or
who got the right the answer right what it does is simply show you what the distribution of answers
was in the group so again here if I was going to choose this one and I might say this answer here
and again the teacher then will see immediately on the screen once everyone's answered the question
the distribution of the answers so it's very much about actually gathering data so you have to think
carefully about the types of questions that you would use in league in the in the questionnaire
because you're not looking for a right or a wrong answer rather you're trying to gather data you
can use that get data for some interesting things afterwards it could be for students
to make a report or for you to do a report or to create a discussion but you're using it to
gather information I've done it some times for example if I'm working with a group of students
student teachers and I want to find out a little bit about what technologies they use so I'm trying
to gather data to help me to decide well what I'm going to train them on or what I'm going to teach
them to use etc so very much about information collecting so great for question is great for
feedback after a session for example to find out what the users thought of your session and what
they'd learn from it in term so as I said it's not really about wrong or right answers it's
very much about getting information and that is basically the way it works now really quickly
just going to show you are there any differences when we create a Kahoot I did very quickly forget
to mention of course that once you've done a server you can gather the results and you can
even save them onto your drive or download them as an excel file so if you're trying to gather
data then obviously might be quite useful for you to download the information as far as the code
itself is concerned there really is no difference so you would click on new cards now what's the
difference between discussion and survey well a discussion is really like a survey but with just
one question so I never used the discussion mode I always use the survey mode and it's exactly the
same as a quiz but you do need to think slightly differently about the questions because you're not
looking for a wrong or right answer you're trying to offer a possible a number of possibilities and
then the users are obviously answer the questions depending on what their particular choice is so
that is really essentially what the difference between the survey and the quiz is to make them
they're really no different at all they work in exactly the same way teton keep in mind though
that when you do do that you do need to think very carefully about the types of questions
that you answer and of course at the end of doing the survey it may be quite interesting for you to
download that survey information and then you can use that for other activities perhaps you could
even give the survey information to your students they could do a report or do a presentation based
on the information that has been gathered from the survey so hopefully I've made it clear what
a survey is and how it's different to a quiz mode in Kahoot hi this is Russell Stannard from teacher
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