Allow disconnected players to rejoin with their prior score
BACKGROUND
If a player disconnects from a kahoot, their screen will display a circling animation while it attempts to reconnect. Eventually, it should reconnect and the player can continue with their prior score.
PROBLEM
For various reasons (some possibly beyond Kahoot!'s control) the automated reconnection can take a long time. In order to rejoin quickly, players tend to refresh kahoot.it. Then, even if they rejoin with the same nickname, their score is at 0. It would be great if scores persisted through refreshing kahoot.it as long as the kahoot is active and the same nickname is chosen.
WORKAROUND
Currently, players need to wait until kahoot.it reconnects on its own in order to preserve their score. Refreshing and manually rejoining will cause them to start with a score of 0.
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Would be great this feature. Most of my students use kahoot over browser and a lot of them refresh the site accidentally. I'd like to use kahoot from the start of the class 'till the end. This means a kahoot quiz could take 45 mins or more. If the students closes the browser, or lost wifi/4g for some reason, they will lose all of their points, thus i couldn't give them marks for their activity. Please add registration or allow to rejoin if the nickname is matching.
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Surely for Kahoot users that have a player identifier account, the system should be able to add previous scores with reconnected players, same team name and emails address should be plenty to work with in adding the scores together.
Like to see some improvements in this going forward.
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As everybody needs to see questions on the host/teacher's screen, if one participant gets disconnected it delays the entire activity. Often, to rejoin quickly, people reload but lose their previous score. This also messes up the reports - unanswered questions, who needs help and other features get compromised.
A suggestion for a minimum workaround would be for the host/teacher to merge results and exclude logins that didn't even get started.
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