When you’re creating a kahoot, you can combine different types of questions in one game. For guidance on the creator in our mobile app, read this article instead.
To get started, click on the Add question button to see the different question types. Learn about each question type below, or learn about using the import spreadsheet feature in this article.
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require an upgrade to a different subscription plan.
Test knowledge
- Quiz
- True or false
- Type Answer (Premium feature)
- Puzzle (Premium feature)
- Quiz + Audio (Premium feature)
Collect opinions
- Poll (Premium feature)
- Word cloud (Premium feature)
- Open-ended (Premium feature)
- Brainstorm (Premium feature)
Add slide
Quiz
Create a multiple-choice question with right and wrong answers.
Fast facts about quiz questions:
- Questions can be up to 120 characters.
- Time limit can range from 5 seconds to 4 minutes.
- Points can be toggled to 0, 1000, or 2000 points. Points are awarded based on speed of answer.
- Answers can be text up to 75 characters or an image. At least 2 answers are required (4 max), and at least one must be correct. You can toggle if players can select one or more than one answer.
- You can upload an image or choose one from our image library, or embed a YouTube video.
True or false
Create a question with true and false answers pre-filled.
Fast facts about true or false:
- Questions can be up to 120 characters.
- The time limit can range from 5 seconds to 4 minutes.
- Points can be toggled to 0, 1000, or 2000 points. Points are awarded based on speed of answer.
- Answers are “True” or “False” options and cannot be edited. Only one can be correct.
- You can upload an image or choose one from our image library, or embed a YouTube video.
Type Answer ( Premium feature)
With Type Answer quiz questions, you can eliminate guesswork and test how well learners recall content without cues by asking them to type the correct short answer! Players type in an answer which is validated instantly.
Fast facts about Type Answer questions:
- Questions can be up to 120 characters.
- The time limit can range from 20 seconds to 4 minutes.
- Points can be toggled to 0, 1000, or 2000 points. Points are awarded based on speed of answer.
- Answers can be up to 20 characters. At least 1 answer is required (4 max). Answers are not case-sensitive. Multiple spaces count as a single space. Emojis only count if there is no other text. The following punctuation is not validated: ~ ` ! @ # $ % ^ & * ( ) { } [ ] ; : " ' < , . > ? / \ | - _ + =
- When a work or home account holder presents a live session or assigns a kahoot, all submitted answers will display on the results screen. When a school or higher ed account holder presents a live session or assigns a kahoot, only correct answers are displayed.
- When presenting a live session, you can select other submitted answers to be counted as correct, letting you exceed the "4 max" requirement. This is not yet possible for school or higher ed account holders.
- You can upload an image or choose one from our image library, or embed a YouTube video.
- Only select subscriptions let you edit kahoots that include this question type.
Puzzle ( Premium feature)
Create a question with answers that must be sorted into the correct order. For example, you can sort math operators to logically complete a formula, order historical events, or arrange a series of steps to create a logical process.
Fast facts about puzzles:
- Text to be read aloud can be up to 120 characters and is separate from the question text.
- Questions can be up to 120 characters.
- The time limit can range from 20 seconds to 4 minutes.
- Points can be toggled to 0, 1000, or 2000 points. Points are awarded based on speed of answer.
- Answers can be up to 75 characters. All four answer options are required. Only one sequence can be correct.
- You can upload an image or choose one from our image library, or embed a YouTube video.
- Only select subscriptions let you edit kahoots that include this question type.
Quiz + Audio ( Premium feature)
Create a question that reads aloud a string of text. This uses Microsoft Azure's text to speech service and supports 37 languages.
Fast facts about puzzles:
- Questions can be up to 120 characters.
- Supported languages are Arabic, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Filipino, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, and Vietnamese.
- You can change the question's type and retain the audio media.
- An image or video cannot be added unless you remove the audio media.
- Only select subscriptions let you edit kahoots that include this question type.
Poll ( Premium feature)
Create a question to survey your audience - no answers are right or wrong here. Participants won’t be awarded points and will not see a leaderboard afterward.
Fast facts about polls:
- Questions can be up to 120 characters.
- Time limit can range from 5 seconds to 4 minutes.
- Answers can be text up to 75 characters or an image. You can toggle if players can select one or more than one answer.
- You can upload an image or choose one from our image library, or embed a YouTube video.
- To use this, you’ll need a Kahoot! Pro subscription or higher.
Word cloud ( Premium feature)
Give every participant a voice and see their input visualized. With this question type, participants won’t be awarded points and won’t see a leaderboard afterward.
Fast facts about word clouds:
- Questions can be up to 120 characters.
- The time limit can range from 20 seconds to 4 minutes.
- Answers can be up to 20 characters. Each player types in a response which will display in a word cloud. Popular responses will display in a larger font.
- You can upload an image or choose one from our image library, or embed a YouTube video.
- Only select subscriptions let you edit kahoots that include this question type.
Brainstorm ( Premium feature)
Keep everyone engaged and energized during in-person and virtual meetings with brainstorm, a gamified way for teams to collect, discuss, and vote on ideas.
Fast facts about Brainstorm:
- The time limit can range from 30 seconds to 4 minutes (the default is 120 seconds).
- Players can submit up to 3 ideas with up to 75 characters per idea.
- Presenters can group ideas by dragging them together.
- Players will have 180 seconds to vote on their favorite ideas.
- There is no limit to how many ideas each player can vote on.
- The top 3 ideas will earn 1000 points per vote.
- Voting on your own idea will not award you points.
- During assignments, ideas can only be submitted (not grouped or voted on).
Open-ended ( Premium feature)
Allow your participants to share their thoughts freely. Collect feedback, ideas or opinions from your players and increase interaction during or after your game!
Fast facts about open-ended:
- Questions can be up to 120 characters.
- The time limit can range from 20 seconds to 4 minutes.
- Answers can be up to 250 characters. Each player types in a response and chooses a word to highlight. Responses will display on a scrollable wall.
- You can upload an image or choose one from our image library, or embed a YouTube video.
- Only select subscriptions let you edit kahoots that include this question type.
Slide
Add a slide to offer additional information. In a live game, presenters can take a moment to provide an explanation, elaborate, and discuss information. During an assignment, the participants read the information before moving to the next question.
Fast facts about slides:
- Titles can be up to 50 characters.
- Text can be up to 250 characters. *
- You can upload an image or choose one from our image library, or embed a YouTube video.
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Slides can also be imported from PowerPoint, KeyNote, or PDF files.
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Choose from 10 different slide layouts and improve the readability and clarity of your slides.
*Character limits may differ depending on the layout chosen.
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You can change the slide background colors.
Article discussion
24 comments
It would be cool to be able to make a mix of two modes ex: Jumble and Quiz as lets say you have a quiz about a game so first question is a quiz ex: what is the best weapon. Then the next would be a jumble ex: what is the best weapon. This would make it simpler as you would not have to make 2
Yes I would like to do that to, I was wondering if that was possible, but ok I think it´s not.. Too bad!
How do i disable points for certain quiz questions now?
So what happens to my old surveys if I don't upgrade to Pro?
I had an idea where the features such as polls and slides could be premium features for now, but then be realized to the public later. Kind of like a beta feature!
I generally like the idea of Kahoot! Thanks for this interesting product. However, I must say that I am not 100% convinced by the game design.The fact that you can have multiple correct answers, but players can only choose one answer instead of "logging in" all the correct answers, sort of defeats the purpose of multiple correct answers. So basically one correct answer and three blanks are the standard which I find very limiting questionwise. The fact that this isn´t a bug, but a feature makes me doubt that I will use Kahoot a lot in my lessons!
Please, I want two slides in a row.
It would greatly benefit the users and creators of personal Kahoot! presentations and quizzes with a little more flexibility in regards to allowing two slides in a row. Trying to use Kahoot! as a safety presentation with questions imbedded is not possible without allowing multiple slides before a question.
Very good changes! Thx. But true/false questions are in english only? Can I somehow change it so that I don't have all quizz in polish and true/false answers in english?
how do I get slides, puzzle , bank feature
Having more slides in a row would be much more better for explanation.
Does Jumble have to be a premium feature? It's a really fun question type, and I don't understand why non-premium users can no longer make Jumble quizzes. Could you please make Jumble a free feature again? :(
Why can you only have 100 questions?
Can we extend the character limit for the answers on open ended questions because 20 isn’t enough when I was trying this feature out.
Please include an audio recording feature (so I record a word or a phrase and the students write the answers based on what they hear.)
I would like features that teachers would use to be part of the Pro! account. Features aimed at corporate and whole school (large numbers of users) to be in the Premium. I have a Pro! account and feel that open-ended questions should be available to me without upgrading again. I'm sure that adding more features to Pro! would tempt people still using Kahoot for free to upgrade.
I would like audio questions features so that I can have my students hear and spell their spelling words. Or Where I could write the word and then choose choices as audio-based. I think this would be great for younger students.
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Can you make this work on chrome books? Or at least does it for any types if accounts?
It would be good as the Host to be able to award points to the person with the closest answer e.g. if the answer was numerical e.g. a year, you could award the points to the closest guess
Mis estudiantes no pueden ver la preguntas, qué puede hacer?
I also need an audio feature. At least for reading the questions. The reason is that we have English classes for ages 3-5 and not all of them can read yet, but they would benefit from kahoots.
Also, it is great that I can upload a picture in the answer, but why does it have to be a choice between picture OR written text? It would be awesome, if I could use both in my answers :) Thanks!! Overall kahoot is a great product and we love using it !!
is there a template to import different types of questions (quizzes, polls, true false etc)?
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