I use Kahoot to teach Japanese ESL. It's very useful for drilling letter names and sounds. Japanese keyboards replace the qwerty keyboard tilde key with a button to switch between inputting Japanese and Alphanumeric input.
When entering a pin, ”JA Alphanumeric with Japanese keyboard” mode looks like this:
1234 567
And ”あ Japanese” mode looks like this:
１２３４５６７
Japanese computers default to Japanese mode, but the game pin dialogue does not accept these wider numbers. Showing students how to switch input modes causes a significant delay in younger classes, and bugs preventing Alphanumeric input entirely are not uncommon.
Could the pin dialogue be edited to accept the wider numbers?
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Hi! I've passed your request directly to our product team.
Your explanation about the wide characters (１２３) was clear and helpful; thank you! Hopefully, we can get this normalized soon to make joining games a bit smoother for your classes.
In the meantime, to avoid the PIN entry entirely, you can have your students scan the join QR code or send them a direct link to the game.
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