Meet Gimkit Live — the live learning game show your students will beg to play. With constant updates, new modes and powerups, the game your students play today may not be what your students play tomorrow.
For information on how to obtain a Gimkit account through Educational Technologies, go to the Learning Software Page.
Game Modes
Gimkit has a variety of different game modes you can play. Some of them are:
Gimkit Classic
Gimkit Classic is a lot like Kahoot!, but in a style that closely resembles a game show. Answer questions, earn money, and purchase power ups to make it to the top of the leaderboard and win the game!
Gimkit Team Mode
Gimkit Team Mode is a lot like Gimkit Classic, only now your students can work together in teams to reach the top of the leaderboard.
The Floor is Lava
Things are getting hot!
Welcome to The Floor is Lava! This mode is unique — it’s a fully cooperative mode. Instead of students competing against each other, they work together towards a common goal.
The objective of the mode is simple: stay above the lava as long as you can!
Once the game starts, lava will begin to rise. It starts off slow, but gets faster and faster over time. Students will work to construct a tower. Once the lava gets higher than the tower, the game ends!
On the student’s end, they’ll have a special section in the shop to purchase builds. Those builds will increase the height of the tower.
The builds get more and more expensive, but they also add more and more height. Strategize, budget, and plan!
Super Rich Mode
Make it rain!
In this mode, all earnings are multiplied by a whopping 500x. But it won’t be totally easy, upgrades in the shop also increase in price to account for the extra wealth.
Drop in and let your students find out whether or not gazillionaires exist.
Infinity Mode
This mode is inevitable.
Collect all six Infinity Stones, snap, and see who survives!
In Infinity Mode, students work to acquire all six Infinity Stones! The stones can be found in the shop, but getting them won’t be cheap.
They’ll have to answer questions, purchase upgrades, and earn enough cash to acquire the stones.
When the first student acquires all six stones, half your class will get snapped away. Students will find out together if they survived or not!
Either way, the game always ends as all things should: with perfect balance.
Humans vs Zombies
Human or zombie, the goal is simple: survive!
Students are randomly split into two teams, Humans & Zombies.
Each team starts off with 700 health. 1.5 health is automatically decreased every second. The team that survives the longest wins!
Students use the cash they earn to purchase powers that help their team or sabotage the other. Here are the abilities students can purchase:
✊ Sabotage
Removes 40 health from the other team
🏥 Repair
Increases health by 30
💪 Strengthen
Increases max health by 15
Hidden Mode
Who’s that?
In Hidden Mode, lots of information you’re used to having when playing Gimkit Live is…hidden!
To start, names of students on the leaderboard are fully hidden. This really helps motivate all students, as nobody knows where they’re ranking!
On the student’s end, their current balance is hidden. Nobody finds out who’s who or how much money they have until the very end!
Drained Mode
Gimkit Live…but in real life.
In Drained Mode, your student’s balances are draining…and draining quickly. Each minute that passes, more and more money gets taken out of their account. Like taxes…but much worse.
If your students think a normal game of Gimkit Live is too easy, this mode is for them!
Boss Battles
Time to go head to head (to head to head to head to head…)!
Boss Battle allows you to pit everybody in the class against one player! Could be you, could be that student who always wins — it’s up to you to decide.
Wondering how one person could possibly defeat a group of 15, 30, or even more? No worries, we’ve got that handled. We’ll increase the Boss’s earnings depending on the number of people they’re challenging.
While students work independently in this mode, they’ll have to come together as one to take down the boss!
Trust No One
NOTE: This is an advanced game mode in Gimkit. We recommend trying other modes first and getting, accustomed to Gimkit before you try this mode.
Oh no! There’s an impostor on the ship!
The objective of Trust No One is simple: locate the impostors and vote them off the ship. If you or your students have ever played Among Us, this mode is similar!
When you lift-off, students are split between crewmates and impostors. They’ll both answer questions to earn power.
Crewmates can use their power to run investigations on other players. Investigations help crewmates identify other crewmates. With enough investigations, your students can rule out enough people to eventually find the impostors!
Impostors can use their power to sabotage crewmate operations or blend in as a crewmate. It’s up to them to handle that balance!
This mode requires students to talk with one-another, so whether it be text chat, video chat, or in-person, make sure they have a way to communicate!
Draw That!
NOTE: This is an advanced game mode in Gimkit. We recommend trying other modes first and getting accustomed to Gimkit before you try this mode.
We can’t guarantee your creations will end up in the Louvre, but we know you’ll have fun with this unique twist to Gimkit Live!
With this mode, we take your Kit and transform it into something entirely different: a drawing game!
Students don’t answer questions in this mode. Instead, students draw terms from your Kit while everybody else tries to guess what it is. Like Pictionary, but with your content, and for your entire class!
With the start of each round, you’ll select one of your students as the drawer.
That student will pick a term from your Kit to draw, and they’ll get drawing!
As that student draws, everybody else will try to guess what that drawing is:
Letters in the term slowly reveal over time. If students are stuck, don’t worry, there’s help on the way!
Students are awarded points for guessing correctly, and the student with the most points by the end of the game wins!
Trainings Tutorials Resources/Supported Applications Accessibility FAQ
Trainings
Upcoming Sessions
Here are a list of sessions that are available:
Spring
| Date | Time | Session Title |
|---|---|---|
| 02/29/2024 | 2pm – 3:30pm | An Introduction to Gimkit – The Gameshow that Enhances Student Learning |
| 04/04/2024 | 10am – 11:30am | Gimkit Features Explained – Classes and Assignments |
| 04/08/2024 | 2pm – 3:30pm | Gimkit Features Explained – Using KitCollab to prompt your students to make their own Gimkit questions |
Summer
No trainings at this time
Fall
No trainings at this time
Recorded Trainings
If you’re not able to make it to a live training on Gimkit, no worries! We record the first training of every semester and put it here for you to view or review!
RECORDING
An Introduction to Gimkit – The Gameshow that Enhances Student Learning
Date: October 24th, 2023
Additional Resources
Supported Applications
Gimkit is currently only supported via the web:
Accessibility
Gimkit does not currently have a VPAT but does have this included in their timeline to acquire in the future. In the mean time, please see below links and articles related to accessibility and Gimkit!
F.A.Q.
General/Other
- Is Gimkit only for Faculty?
Gimkit is available for Full-Time, Adjunct and Dual Enrollment Faculty and Full-Time Staff employed by South Texas College.
- How can I get a Gimkit account?
- How many Kits can I make with my new STC Gimkit account?
As many as you like 😊. There are no limits.
Students
- Does a Gimkit account cost me or my students anything?
South Texas College is paying for a site license for Gimkit, so there is no cost for you or your students to use it.
- Do my students need a Gimkit account to be able to interact with Gimkit?
Students do not need a Gimkit account to play Gimkit Live. With Gimkit Live, students navigate to a website that you provide them and enter a code that is created when starting a Gimkit Live session.
However instructors do have the ability to create classes in Gimkit, and when students are asked to join the class they get a student account for Gimkit. This account gives the instructor the ability to track student progress throughout Gimkit exercises. See more information on this here.
- How do I get my students a Gimkit account?
- Why should I create a class in Gimkit? What does a class do?
Distance Learning
- Can I use Gimkit in Blackboard
Gimkit is not currently supported in Blackboard. Most Gimkit Game Modes are intended to be played with a live audience, and can be played both in video conference and face-to-face settings. However, Gimkit can be assigned as an asynchronous assignment in Blackboard by using the shareable link produced when turning a kit into a homework assignment. See this article for more information on Assignments and how to share them.
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