Gimkit Create: Building Interactive Learning Games with Gimkit

Gimkit is fast becoming a popular option for use in classrooms and for remote learning. This quirky learning site that students and teachers use to turn quizzes into fun, competitive races. But the real magic happens when you dig in to Gimkit Create – which allows users to create their own games from the ground up. Whether you’re a teacher looking to make content interactively approachable or a student looking to use the great memories, Gimkit Create provides for a flexible and interactive way to keep the learning experience fun.

In this how-to, we’re going to teach you how to create custom games in Gimkit from signing up for an account all the way to sharing your game with others.

What is Gimkit?

Before concluding with the creation tools it is worth familiarizing yourself with the Gimkit platform. Created in 2017 by a high school student, Gimkit was initially intended to be a tool to inject fun and engagement into classroom quizzes. Consider it an educational take on a video game, where correct responses result in virtual currency that students can use to purchase upgrades and challenge classmates.

Gimkit offers all kinds of live and asynchronous game play, and is great to use in class, for homework, and for remote learning.

What is Gimkit Create?

Gimkit Create is a part of the site that enables teachers and students to design their own kit – essentially a customized quiz of their own making – which serves as the foundation for all Gimkit games. Easy to use interface, and question types, make creating quizzes the best – even for the most technologically inept.

With Gimkit Create, you are able to:

• Create your own quizzes (called “Kits”)

• Insert media such as photos, audio clips

• Import data from other platforms

• Work with other teachers or students

• Share Kits and reuse between classrooms

Whether you’re creating resources for a lesson plan or delivering tailored assessments ready for each individual pupil, Gimkit Create takes charge of the learning.

How to Access Gimkit Create

You will first need to log in or sign up for an account on Gimkit to use Gimkit Create for free.

Step-by-Step:

• Go to https://www.gimkit.com
• Then, click the button “Log In” or “Sign Up” in the upper right corner.
• Sign up using your Google account or email.
• Once logged in, click on “Kits” in the sidebar.
• Then just click “New Kit” to make your quiz.

When you enter the creation environment, you can start constructing your Kit with multiple choice questions, text input questions, or for that matter questions with images!

Getting Started with Your First Kit in Gimkit

When you click on New Kit you will be asked to name your Kit and select a subject as well as a grade level. From there, you’ll select your preference for question format.

What Kind of Questions Can You Add:

1. Multiple Choice – This is a standard type multiple choice format for one correct answer.
2. Text Input – Student must enter the answer, a word or phrase.
3. Audio – Include pronunciation or language-learning clips with your sentences.
4. Image Questions – Good for visual learners and dodge subjects such as art, geography, or science.

Additional Features:

• Randomize answer order

• Assign points per question

• Add explanations or feedback

With Gimkit, you can input questions directly, or import questions from a previous Kit — or even from a spreadsheet in CSV format.

Collaborating with Others

Collaboration: One of the great thing about Gimkit Create. Kits can be built by teachers in collaboration, tests shared across schools or live games co-hosted.

To invite collaborators:

1. Open the Kit you’ve created.
2. Click on the “Share” button.
3. Invite by email or create a shareable link.

This is one of the reasons that Gimkit works so well with team teaching and curriculum scope and sequence between classrooms or content areas.

Customizing Game Settings

Once you have a Kit, you can play it in whatever game mode suits you. There are a number of modes you can play in with Gimkit.

Popular game modes include:

1. Classic Mode – Players answer questions to earn in-game cash.
2. Team Mode – Students collaborate with each other, and compete with other teams.
3. Trust No One (Inspired by Among Us) – Social deduction trivia game.
4. Draw That! – Kids will love drawing an answer, fantastic review and creativity!

Time limits, starting cash and power-up options are all adjustable for each mode. This allows you to customize the game according to your lesson’s goals.

Using Multimedia in Your Kit

Add multimedia elements right inside Gimkit Create to increase engagement and address different learning styles.

You can upload or embed:

• Images

• GIFs

• Audio files

• Video links

These features can be especially useful in subjects like language arts, science and history, where context is often critical to comprehension. A science teacher, for instance, could upload a cell image and ask students to label parts; a language teacher might upload an audio clip for pronunciation practice.

Text Students with Homework using Gimkit Create

Not every session needs to be live. With the “Assignments” feature on Gimkit, you can make your custom Kits into homework.

How to assign a Kit:

• Go to your Kit.

• Click “Assign”.

• Select due date, game type, and preferences.

• Share your unique link or code with your students.

This is a self-paced assignment. You can follow along and see real-time performance analytics.

Tracking Student Performance

After your Kit has been played in a game or assignment, you’ll have detailed analytics in Gimkit:

• Question-by-question breakdown How voters felt asked about each issue.

• Performance by individual and by class

• Time spent on each question

• Incorrect vs. correct answers

As a result, you’ll know which topics need to be reviewed as well as which students may need additional help.

How to Use Gimkit Create Like a Pro

Here are some top tips to help you get the most from Gimkit Create:

1. Keep Questions Simple and Straight to the Point – Don’t use needlessly complicated language.
2. Employ Images When You Can – People respond to visuals.
3. Mix it Up – Make easy, medium, hard and impossible questions.EMAIL SIGN UP -Purchase 3 or more items, receive a 25% off discount code towards your next purchase.
4. Provide Feedback – Describe to re-inculcate learning.
5. Refresh Kits Often – Keeping what you issue new and relevant.

Conclusion

With Gimkit Create you can transfer traditional quizzing into an interactive activity! Easy to Use Multilingual Interface Multimedia Players Game Play Customization Teachers can create their own interactive content that captures students’ interest. Whether you’re teaching in a classroom or remotely, Gimkit is a creative, flexible and engaging way to empower participants to unbox their knowledge.

The best part? And the students aren’t just memorizers of the right answers; they understand how they arrived at them. That’s the power of Gimkit.