Gimkit Host: The Detailed Analysis

Do you play and enjoy games? Well, if you do, you don’t have to feel ashamed about that. In fact, various studies have shown that if we make our work creative and more gamified, we can produce marvellous results. But the game should not be addictive, of course. Ok, another question: Do you like to attend classes and assignments? Well, it is kind of boring isn’t it? The deadliness.. The 100-200 words per question, which is eventually sold to scrap picker.. Well, through this frustration, there was a person who made a project, Gimkit Host eventually turned into business that eventually used to gamify the assignments and the classes

Understandinding Gimkit

Gimkit Host is an educational gaming website, founded by Josh Feinsilber in the year 2017. It was firstly started as a high school project, but the idea behind the website eventually earned global fame. 

Their Mission And Vision

Their mission is to create memorable learning experiences while their vision is to  build a suite of engaging, easy-to-use tools which eventually helps in reshaping education for teachers and the students.

Core characteristics of Gimkit Host

Some of the core characteristics of Gimkit Host are:

• Gaming experience: One of the core characteristics of the portal is that it provides gaming experience to the users. Whether you are student or an educator, you can freely use them for your own benefit
• Real time performance tracking: It also provides a real time performance tracking to the users. That means, if as a student you want to analyse your performance, it can be easily accessible by them
• Paid plans: It also provides the paid plans, if you want to use the additional features. Although, if you just want to open and maintain the Gimkit account, it does not cost anything.
• Customization: It does not stick with their games. It provides customisation features to their educators and the students which make them engage with the learnings
• Rewards: The student can also earn rewards such as the in game cash which they can reinvest for purchasing upgrades and power ups. But an incorrect answer also cost them

Role of Gimkit Host For the Educators

In this section, let’s discuss about the features provided to the educators and how you can use them for your benefit

• Kits: Kits are basically the live learning games for your class. It contains all the information the students will learn in a game. All you have to do is click on the new kit, type the kit name, language you want it to be, the subject you want. Then you have to use a cover photo, provided by them or simply put the image link, if you want it to be customised. Then, all you need to add question, either manually add question, create it with flashcards, use it with the collaboration from kitcollab, add from the question bank, or simply import it from the spreadsheet
• Reports: Reports are basically used to view or analyse the data of the student performance either of live games or the assignments. It is basically show you the report when you host the game with your kit
• Assignments: Assignments are basically the way by which the student can analyse their performance for the upcoming exams. Sorry for giving you the brief description. You can turn your kits into the assignments that will be graded automatically. For a new assignment, simply click on new assignment, and click the kit for your assignment and you are good to go

• Classes: Such as Google Meet and Zoom, you can conduct the classes in the portal too. All you have to do is click on a new class, type your class name and click on class colour. Then a meeting link will be provided to you, which you can share with the students.

Role of Gimkit Host For the Students

Let’s discuss about the features provided to the students and how you can use it for your benefit:

• Home: At the home tab, you were provided with the upcoming assignments for the next 14 days, next 45 days and last 30 days. It can eventually help you to analyse the upcoming assignments and previous assignments. Moreover, it also provides Classes section, where they provide every information about the classes you were in and the upcoming classes uploaded by the teacher
• Kits: The features of kits for the students are the same as for the teachers. Hence, you can create a game by clicking on the new kit, type the kit name, the language you want it to be, the subject you want. Then you have to use a cover photo, provided by them or simply put the image link, if you want it to be customised. Then, all you need to add question, either manually add question, create it with flashcards, use it with the collaboration from kitcollab, add from the question bank, or simply import it from the spreadsheet
• Join game: If your teacher or your student partner generates the game and you want to join them. Simply, click on the  join game and then type the code you have, and then you can easily access it.

Accessing the Login Portal

I know, by now you are quite excited for the portal and you want to access them, but the steps are different for both educators and the teachers. Although the steps are different, some are the same for both. Let’s discuss them:

• Step 1: Open any your favourite internet connected pre installed browser in your device
• Step 2: Type ‘Gimkit Host’ on the search bar
• Step 3: Click on the official website, which generally appears on the top
• Step 4: Click on ‘Sign up’ if you are new, otherwise ‘Login’
• Step 5: Sign up by writing the email, or simply continue with your gmail id of your preference

Now, there is the bifurcation for the login process. Let’s discuss them one by one

For Students

Step 1: Click on ‘Student’ to access the student portal

Step 2: The sentence will appear that states ‘I am at least 13 years of age (or 16+ outside the US) and agree to Gimkit’s Privacy Policy & Terms of Service.’ Simply click on I Agree

Step 3: Type your credentials, i.e., first name and the last initial and the password you want to use to protect your account and press Enter. Hence, your Student ID is ready

For educators

• Step 1: Click on ‘educator’ to access the educator portal
• Step 2: Type your credentials, i.e., first name and the last name
• Step 3: Tap on continue
• Step 4: Select your country you belong to
• Step 5: Select ‘area of expertise’ and the ‘grade level’
• Step 6: Click on go to continue. Hence, your Student ID is ready

Note: For the educators, you get a 14 days trial for the Gimkit Host game, after that you need to pay a subscription fee which will be discussed later on. Although, there is no subscription for creating and maintaining the account

How To become the Best Gimkit Host?

By now, you are quite excited for how to be the best gimkit host game among the departments. Well, for that you need to be creative for your students or your team. Let’s discuss some of the ways that you can use:

• Use Gimkit resources: You can use the gimkit resources available in the portal such as a Gimkit Creative where you can complete a 10 minutes tutorial for creativity. Additionally, you can use other resources too such as Changelog, Community Forum, Documentary etc.
• Quality content and questions: You can produce the quality content and  questions to your students or your department. How can you do it? Well, you can do it by giving challenging questions rather than giving tough questions. For eg: If you are a teacher of Income tax, rather than giving bookish questions, you can ask for the recent budget by the finance minister. Also, you can enhance your creativity with the help of AI too.
• Variations in formatting: If you use the same format for every test or assignments, the student or the department will eventually get bored. You can enhance their experience by giving variations on the format and the style of questions.
• Analyse the mistakes: Analyse your department or the student progress daily or weekly. If a student could not score well in one of the exams or the assignments. Try to speak to them and analyse their situation.

Pricing policy of  Gimkit Host Game

I know, by now you are quite excited about the price, because the services are not free here. So, there are 2 subscription plans:

• If you have a school, whether private or government, you are entitled for $1000 per year for every teacher in  your school
• If you are operating in a department, you have some discount. You have to pay just $650 per year for 20 teachers.

If you are worrying about the refund policy, you can cross check from the refund policy updated in their portal. We can share it here but let’s not go too far for a website

Is Gimkit really good? Understanding the people’s review

Let’s understand the people’s reviews on the internet. It not only contains positive feedback but negative reviews too. Let me clear one thing that it is just the reviews of people and we may or may  not agree with it:

“I LOVE Gimkit. Really looking forward to using gimkit ink.  Spare the contrivance diversions (Thanos, floor is lava, etc) for a conclusion of course. Use the basic game for your review. Teams is better than individual; there is always 1 or 2 kids who have the game theory down cold and will blow the rest of the class out of the water” A reddit user

“I made kits with 200 questions for my trust no one games so they wouldn’t get the same questions over and over because the games take awhile but they love it! I indeed played one with them and they thought it was silly to boot me off the ship.” Another reddit user

“Not recommended! Whoever created the maths questions needed to revise and solve them themselves before posting them on the app for students. For example, what angle exactly do you ask?, and you should go back to studying the differences of the triangles before you ask the students!” A review from Product Hunt

Conclusion

While going through the gimkit host’s portal, we found various characteristics for the students and for the teachers. We do not want to make it as a one sided story and hence, we provided some people’s review. I hope you understand the basics of the app and how a user can use it effectively. If not, you can comment down below for further queries. Additionally, we also have one advice that the pricing of the product is quite high for the product. I mean whether a school just pays $650 for a department just to enhance their student learning experience in a world where AI is kar more evolving and has little to no cost? I don’t think so, what do you think?

Disclaimer:

The above information provided by the portal is just for informational purposes only and is not backed by our own research. We do not have any intention to promote or defame any portal, products or the company. Moreover, we are not liable if the above information is inaccurate or incorrect and advise you to go through the official website at your own risk.

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