After you’ve created or duplicated a kahoot at kahoot.com, you can access our kahoot creator for editing. For guidance on the creator in our mobile app, read this article instead.
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This article covers:
- How to edit an existing kahoot
- Preview, Exit, Finish, and auto-saving
- Kahoot settings
- Question sidebar
How to edit an existing kahoot
To edit an existing kahoot of yours, simply click the options button [ ⋮ ] and choose “✎ Edit”.
- You can only edit kahoots you’ve created or duplicated, found in My Kahoots list.
- As an admin or member of a team (subscription required), you and other members can edit each other's' team space kahoots.
Preview, Exit, Finish, and auto-saving
At the top-right of the creator are three buttons: Preview, Exit and Finish.
- Preview shows you what your kahoot will look like during a live game. At the bottom of the screen, you can “exit preview” to go back to editing, switch to a different question, or make the preview full screen.
- Exit will allow you to discard or keep changes you’ve just made. Keeping them will create a draft version of your kahoot under “My Drafts”. Drafts are not playable in live games and challenges, though you can still play your kahoot without drafted changes.
- Finish will save all changes to your kahoot, making them playable in future live games and challenges.
Auto-saving: If, for any reason, you exit the creator (e.g.: browser closes or computer crashes), changes are automatically saved as a draft. Saving is indicated next to your kahoot’s title, in the top navigation bar.
Unless you chose to Discard all changes, you can always edit your kahoot at a later time to Finish drafted versions.
Kahoot settings
At the top of the screen, click your kahoot’s title or the settings button to access the Kahoot summary screen.
Here’s more detailed info about each setting.
Title: A meaningful title that accurately describes what your kahoot is about will help other users find it in search results and understand if it’s relevant. A title can be up to 95 characters.
Description: Our Discover page’s search algorithm weighs keywords found in kahoot descriptions higher than keywords found in questions. You can also add a # in front of words to highlight them as closely related to your kahoot (for example, “A #trivia quiz about #popular #music”). Descriptions can be up to 280 characters.
Cover image: Adding a cover image is a great opportunity to give more context to your kahoot. Kahoots with cover images are also boosted slightly by our search algorithm, making them more likely to be found by others than kahoots without a cover image. You can upload an image from your computer or from our image library. Images need to be:
- PNG, JPEG, or GIF format, in RGB color mode
- No larger than 5MB or 3264x3264 pixels
Save to: If you are an admin or member of a team space (subscription required), you can choose which personal or team folder the kahoot is saved in. You can also move a kahoot by changing where it’s saved to. Kahoots will have different visibility options based on if they’re saved somewhere in your personal “My Kahoots” list or your team space.
Visibility: As long as the kahoot is saved under My Kahoots on the Kahoots page, you can make the kahoot visible to everyone or to only you. Kahoots saved in your team space only have the “team only” visibility option.
- Everyone: your kahoot will appear in search results on the Discover page. Services like Facebook, Twitter, and Slack will preview your kahoot’s title, description, and cover image when you post a share link.
- Only you: your kahoot will not appear in search results on the Discover page.
- Team only: your kahoot will only appear in your team space, and only team members have access to it (subscription required).
| If you're a student, you may be limited to making kahoots visible to only you. |
Lobby video: Paste a YouTube video URL (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ig4_PhHmE2Y) into this field and the video will play full screen in the background while players join your game. This can be just a bit of music, some comedic relief, or an instructional video that provides answers to questions they’ll see.
Question sidebar
Once you’ve started creating a kahoot, you can navigate between questions and add new ones in the left-hand sidebar, using “Add question” and “Question bank” buttons. There is also an “import from spreadsheet” link located at the very bottom of the screen.
Questions
Click on a question to open it for editing in the main area just right of the question list. You can drag questions up and down to reorder them. You can also hover over a question to reveal an options button [ ⋮ ]. Click this to duplicate or delete the question.
“Add question” button
Click on this and choose what type of block you want to add. You can add up to 100 questions per kahoot. Read this article to learn about the different question types.
“Question bank” button
Click on this and start typing a question or keyword that you want to find a question about. After results are shown, you can toggle between “Show all” (all public kahoots) and “My questions” (only kahoots shown on your Kahoots page). You can add multiple questions at once by clicking the “Add” button to the right of each question. Question bank questions can be edited just like a question created from scratch.
The question bank is not available for students as a way to encourage individual research and creative work as they’re creating their own kahoots as a part of classroom or homework assignments.
“Import from spreadsheet” link
Click on this to import quiz questions from a spreadsheet. Questions must be in our .xlsx template with a max file size of 1 MB. You can use MS Excel, Libre Office, Google Spreadsheets or Numbers to add questions.
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12 comments
I want to add questions to an existing game that I made previously, but when I go to the game, I can only play it, not edit it. I can't get to the page that you show above - that was the page I saw when I first created the game. The only option I can see is to copy and edit, but I don't want another copy of this game. I want to edit the one I made.
The new creator is not for me, how do I opt out?
I want to save an edited quiz but it won't save
I have hovered my mouse over a question for days. Never once have seen an options button with three dots. I want to delete a question. Is it really this challenging just to have something work?
I've been trying to find a way to delete a slide from a duplicate Kahoot and I can't find the way to do it. Shouldn't be easier than the previous version? I see this new version less friendly than the previos. This is coming from a frustrated teacher!
I'm in the same boat as queenfranki. How do I add more questions to a preexisting set after I have saved it?
Hi all!
To add more questions, use the "Add question" button in the Question sidebar. There is a limit of 100 questions per kahoot. So if you're at or above 100 questions, you may not be able to add more questions until you delete some.
To delete a question, hover over the question in the Question sidebar, click the " ⋮ " that appears in place of the question number, and choose "Delete".
Cheers!
Yes, the option for delete shows up, then it only lets me delete the ENTIRE kahoot, not just the single slide! Quite a different thing.
Same!! what's going on. It shouldn't be this hard!
When I hit the edit button, I can only add questions, but I would like to add a pic here and there and translate some of the questions in English. How do I do that?
The edit feature does not work. As mentioned above, the slide delete function removes the entire quiz. Try a platform that works, like Quizlet or Quizziz.
I had the same concern about the "delete" question deleting the entire quiz, based on the fact that when you click "delete" it pops up with a box that says "Are you sure you want to delete this quiz? This action cannot be undone!" However, I decided to test this, and the delete button does in fact ONLY delete the question you have selected. Kahoot, please change the pop-up box text to reflect what is actually happening!
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