How to use Kahoot! Missions

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Empower your team with Kahoot! Missions – turn solo tasks into motivating shared challenges for training, onboarding, and internal communication.

In this guide, you’ll learn how to create a mission, assign it as a creator, join and start a mission as a participant, track progress, and reveal the results.

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What are Kahoot! Missions?

Kahoot! Missions let you group learning content into a team-based competition where everyone works toward a shared goal – building and launching a rocket together.

In a mission:

  • You assign a course as a mission instead of asking everyone to complete activities on their own.
  • Learners are split into teams and complete a series of activities (such as stories, kahoots, videos and PDFs) to build their rocket.
  • Each completed activity moves the team’s rocket closer to launch and updates the team leaderboard.

You can use Missions for:

  • Onboarding new employees
  • Mandatory training (compliance, security, policies)
  • Campaigns and internal communication, where you want to boost completion and create a shared experience
     

How to create and assign a mission (as a creator)

This section covers the new Missions flow, where a mission is created from a course assignment.

Before you start

Make sure you:

  • Are logged in to your team workspace.
  • Have permission to create course assignments in your organization (Missions are enabled per organization for users who can assign courses).
  • Your course has no more than 8 activities or modules. If needed, you can group several activities into a single module so they count as one.
  • The main details are set up the way you want: Title, Description, Theme. Read more about Course settings.
     

1. Open the course you want to assign as a mission

  1. Log in to your account and go to the team workspace.

  2. Go to the Library and open the course you want to turn into a mission.

🔗 If you don’t have a course yet, create one first using How to create a course in Kahoot!, then return to this article.

 

2. Start a course assignment and select Mission

  1. In the course, click Assign to open the assignment dialog

  2. Under Choose assignment mode, select Mission instead of Classic.

  3. Choose the start and end date for the mission and adjust any additional settings (for example, Player identifier, visibility, etc) and click Continue.

Note: Assignment options may vary depending on your subscription type.

🔗 Read more on How to assign a course


Step 3 – Choose the number of teams

In the assignment flow, you decide how many teams will compete in the mission:

  1. Use the teams controls to set the total number of teams you want (minimum 2 teams).
  2. Rename the teams if needed and continue to the next step to share the mission with participants. Once done, click Create assignment.
     

☝️ Participants will later pick their own team when they join the mission from the link or email invite. You don’t assign people to specific teams, and team composition is decided by who joins which team.

☝️ During the mission, team structure is locked – participants stay with the team they joined, and hosts can’t move them between teams.


Step 4 – Share the mission with participants

Right after you create the assignment, the Share assignment with participants window opens.

You can invite participants in two main ways:

  • By email -  click Assign to send email invitations with a join link. All participants receive email notifications that the mission is live.
  • By groups – assign the mission to an existing Kahoot! group so all group members can open and join the mission from the group page.
  • With URL or QR code – copy the join URL or download a QR code to share in chat, intranet pages, slides, or live sessions.

💡 You can always add more participants from the course details page or Reports page. 

How to join and start a mission (as a participant)

When you’re added to a mission, you can join and play at your own pace, while still contributing to your team’s shared goal.

1. Open the mission link

You can access your mission in several ways, depending on how your host shared it:

  • From the email invitation you receive after the assignment is created.
  • By clicking the join link your host shares in chat, an intranet page, or elsewhere.
  • By scanning a QR code shown on slides or in a meeting room.
  • From the Your learning section on your Home page or in the Your learning tab (if you’re logged in with an account that has the mission assigned).

All of these open the same mission join page.

2. Choose a team and provide your details

Click Join mission. When the mission join page opens, you’ll first go through a short lobby flow:

  1. Enter your details – if the host has turned this on, you’ll be asked to enter an email address and nickname before continuing. This helps the host identify results for reporting.
  2. Join a team – you’ll see a list of teams (for example, Customer Success, Product, Marketing) with the number of people already in each team. Click Join next to the team you want to play for.

  3. If you accidentally joined the wrong team, click Leave next to your name to return to the team selection list.

☝️ Once mission starts, it’s not possible to switch to another.

After you complete these steps, you’ll be taken to the main mission view.

3. Explore the mission view and complete activities

In the mission view, you’ll see:

  • The rocket your team is building
  • The list of activities you need to complete
  • A team leaderboard comparing your team’s progress to others.

Each floor of the rocket represents one activity/module in the mission.

To complete an activity:
 

  1. Select first activity from the list (for example, a story or a kahoot) and click Start.
  2. Go through the content:
    • For a story, scroll through the content and interact with any required blocks.
    • For a kahoot, answer all questions.
    • For PDF, read the full document.
    • For video, watch the full material.
  3. When you’re done you will be returned to the mission progress view.

The mission progress view will show:

  • Your team’s progress bar
  • The rocket build progress
  • The leaderboard comparing teams

To finish a rocket floor, all members of your team must complete that activity.

You can continue to the next activity from the progress view, or close the view and come back later.

How to track mission progress (as a creator)

As a creator/host, you can monitor how teams are doing throughout the mission.

Step 1 – Open the mission report

After you start a mission, a mission report page becomes your main hub for tracking results.

You can typically access it from:

  • Your Reports area, by opening the report linked to the mission assignment.
  • Your course details page

Step 2 – Understand the mission report

The Mission report has four main views:

Summary – Overall status of the mission:
 

  • Total progress (rocket bar), number of participants and activities, average time, and average correct answers.
  • Timeline with start/end date and options to End now or Change the end date.
  • Team ranking with progress per team, a list of activities with their completion rate, plus “Difficult questions” and “Need help” sections for quick follow-up. 
  • Use Remind participants to nudge anyone who hasn’t joined the mission yet.
  • Use the Show results from dropdown on the right side of the screen to choose your view:
    • Select All activities combined to see an overview of the entire mission.
    • Select a specific module (e.g., 1 - Introduction to Business) to drill down into the results for that particular section.

       

Performance per activity:
 

  • Each kahoot or story in the mission, with average time and average completion, so you can see which activities take the longest or have lower completion. 

     

Participants – Team and learner progress:
 

  • Team leaderboard (rank, team name, members, progress).
  • Tabs for All participants and Didn’t finish to quickly see who has or hasn’t completed the mission. 

     

Questions – Question-level insights:
 

  • Table of all questions across kahoots in the mission, showing the game, question type (quiz, poll, slider, etc.), and the correct/incorrect distribution per question.

This helps you spot which topics or activities need follow‑up training.

How to reveal and share mission results

When the mission reaches its end date, you can reveal the final results and celebrate your teams.

  1. Open the mission report.
  2. Click Reveal results.

When you reveal results:

  • The mission is ended; participants can review what happened, but cannot keep progressing.
  • All participants receive emails and notifications with the outcome.
  • Teams see an animation and podium view:
    • Teams that reached 100% progress see a successful rocket launch animation.
    • Teams below 100% see a failed launch animation.
  • The leaderboard shows the final ranking based on team scores.

Tips and best practices

Here are some ideas to get the most out of Missions:

  • Start with a clear goal: Define what you want to achieve: onboarding, policy updates, product training, or internal campaigns.
  • Mix content types: Combine stories (for context and instructions) with kahoots (for knowledge checks and competition).
  • Keep missions focused: Use up to 8 activities to keep the mission engaging and achievable within your time frame.
  • Use teams strategically: Group people by location, function, or mixed cross‑functional teams to encourage collaboration and friendly rivalry.
  • Follow up after resultsUse the mission report to identify topics where many learners struggled and plan follow‑up sessions or extra resources.

You’re now ready to create engaging, team‑based learning experiences with Kahoot! Missions using the new course assignment flow 🚀

✨ That’s it! You’re ready to create, play, and manage competitions with Kahoot! Missions 🚀

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