How to Play Quizlet Live in Class: Easy Variations
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Do your students love Quizlet Live as much as mine do? We’re totally obsessed. I was getting a little worried my students would get sick of it, but then I discovered this post on Quizlet Live Variations and had to test them out with my middle and high school students. Let’s talk about how to play Quizlet Live in class with some fun variations!
What is Quizlet Live?
Quizlet live is a review game that takes terms and definitions in Quizlet sets and splits them up into a team based game. Students are randomly shuffled onto teams, then each screen displays a term and definitions. Only one of the team members will have the correct answer on their screen and they work to quickly select the correct answer.
If you’ve never played Quizlet Live before, here’s a short video showing how to play Quizlet Live in class from Quizlet:
If you haven’t tried the “normal” way to play, I highly recommend playing that a few times before you get into the variations!
How to Play Quizlet Live in Class: Variations
Once you know how to play Quizlet Live in class your students will be pretty obsessed with it. We all know it’s easy to wear something out, so I wanted to share some ways you can keep using this review game with your classes, but just change it up a little bit. It’s still super low prep and easy to use, just a fun twist on how to play Quizlet Live in class!
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Silent Tag Team (Shoulder Tap)
In this variation, set up your desks so they can place 3-4 computers in a row. Half the team is seated with their heads down and half is standing behind them. The standing students read the screens and tap a shoulder of a seated partner to let them know which computer to look at, then the seated teammates select the correct answer from the indicated computer. After a round, the teams flip roles.
I love that students work together to determine answers, and it’s nice that it’s VERY quiet!
Relay
Place all the computers on a desk or table facing the same direction. One student will look at ALL computers, choose the correct answer, then go to the end of the line. The next student from their team will go to the computer bank and repeat until the game is over.
This one is SO fun as they race! It can be a little stressful for the individual students, but I do always allow them to talk to their teammates. Space can be tricky with this one depending on your class size and the classroom!
Cacophony
Cacophony is a variation that we have been doing for a long time! In my mind this variation is called “There’s still some class time left and we’re going to use it!” Hah! Cacophony certainly is a great name for it because they do get pretty loud.
Students play but they remain in their seats instead of moving to find their random team. They can holler across the room to play together. This is definitely not one to play while your neighboring classes are testing because it will get quite noisy!
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I love Quizlet as a whole website, not just Live! It’s a great practice tool for students in many ways! I love that there are so many different things you can do with it – like playing Head’s up using Quizlet to support students. I hope they keep developing great things for the classroom!
Have you tried any of the Quizle Live variations? Which one would you suggest I try next?
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Which of the quizlet activities are used to play these games! So sorry to bother you! I really wan to try these games but I am not sure which activites to use. Thank you!
Patrizia
No bother! All of these are played with Quizlet Live!
Hi
I still don’t understand how the tag team works. Does the computer automatically change to the next word? How do you set up the computers for the tag team game?
Hi there! So if you are playing Quizlet Live the computer will switch to the next word after each answer. This Instagram post might help you visualize the set up!
https://www.instagram.com/p/BvPJzbABIET/
So there are 3 students, hence the 3 computers. Only 1 sits, and when they are prompted, they look up and choose the correct answer. My question is, the person that is tapping, they have to look at the computers and check to see what the correct answer is so they can then tap for the correct computer. Correct?
Yes! That is exactly it. The standing students silently look at the computers and agree on which computer it is, then one of them taps the seated student, then that seated student looks up and chooses the word from the computer screen indicated. I hope that helps!
Just wanted to share that I use Quizlet relay but instead of having kids run from the back and front of the room, the teams each used a group table. Their chromebooks lined up on one side of their table facing the front of the room, while they line up on the backside of their table unable to see the questions/answer screens. Then kinda like musical chairs, the teammates take turns going around to the front of their tables to the chromebooks in order to answer a question one at a time.
I love to do that too! I think it works perfectly if you have enough space in your classroom. Thanks for sharing!