Baamboozle Tutorial

 Baamboozle is a website that allows you to create interactive games with students. You can even find a bunch of premade games on many different subjects, it's kind of like Kahoot! The set up is a little bit different, you can still present it whole class and have students working in different teams to figure out the answer. Something I found really cool about Baamboozle is that it also gives the option to study the questions and see it as a slideshow. It also has an option where you can use answer the questions as a quiz so it can be a fun way to do checks for understandings/quick assessments when you want to gauge student understanding. You can insert your own pictures and GIF's, it's a cute website!

Step 1: Search up Baamboozle on your preferred search engine, it looks like this 

Step 2: Click on the button that says join for free, then make your free account. There is also a paid version that gives you more options when using Baamboozle, the plan is $4.99 if you subscribe for a year and $7.99 if you do a monthly plan 

Step 3: It will send you a link to verify your email. After that, you are in and able to see all the games. There are also games in different languages that could be helpful for MLL's! 

Step 4: You can either play a game, study it (answers and questions are given as flash cards), or use it as a slideshow as seen below. When you click on the game there is also a preview, I clicked on a Halloween themed game that was to help MLL's with certain terms. It's nice to see a preview because you can always click out if it's not for you.

When you click play, there is only one game option for the free version, it is fun, just not themed

After you select the game/theme, you can choose the amount of teams, grid size, power ups/themes. AND you can choose if you want students to take it as a quiz, a game with questions and power ups, or a simpler version of the questions with power ups.

Step 5: After you select your preferences, choose questions at random or based off of what the teams would like. And put a ✅or a ☒ based off of their answer! The website will count the points. 

Step 6 (kinda): If you would rather make your own game, go to where it says My Library and press games. The website will guide you if it is your first time creating a game. You can also find anything you previously made or find specific collections you made. 

These are two tutorials I liked that were on YouTube, the second one is more in depth.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-A_7kIRVZI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9n_UNedTaj4