Appreciation

This month, we'd like to share our appreciation for Sam Kary!

Sam is an outstanding educator who does a remarkable job sharing, promoting, and explaining EdTech. This appreciation is for all of that work and for the truly perfect Gimkit tutorial video Sam created and shared in March.

Sam, thank you for all of the work you do and for taking the time to share your tools and approach in such a clear, effective way with other educators! 🥳👏

Everything New

Here's a quick snapshot of everything new we added to Gimkit Live in April!

Read to Me 🔈
Smart Repetition 🧠
Come Back mode 💫
Improved Group purchasing process 🎒
Outnumbered powerup 🌟

This is just a quick run-down. Starting now, I’ll include a quick look like this each month so I (and you) can have an easy-to-see, visual of what's new each month.

As always, I’ll also include detailed notes on the month’s highlights. Check out April’s below!

Community & Product Update

GimCoin

For April Fools this year, we launched our very own cryptocurrency called GimCoin!🤑

While we didn't get rich from it or trick a ton of you, we did get a bunch of requests to keep GimCoin in the game.

We understand having a non-currency symbol might be useful in certain situations and for younger grades. Something similar has been made as a product suggestion over in our feedback center: https://gimkit.nolt.io/634.

You can share and upvote any ideas you want to see in Gimkit anytime here!

Draw That became a Forever Mode

Typically, we treat our modes like movie releases.

They come out for a limited time, go away for a while, then come back as a Forever Mode. Kind of like the traditional model for movie releases: Theater → Unavailable → DVD/VOD.

For Draw That, we looked at the calendar, saw the end of the school year coming up fast, and just made it a Forever Mode immediately.

In early April we let everyone know. There was some excitement, to say the least...

I'm happy we were able to make this adjustment to keep Draw that available! For future modes, we'll still follow our normal formula.

You can play Draw That anytime by clicking "Play" on any of your Kits and selecting it on the game mode selection screen. Learn more about how Draw That works here and check out the student art gallery here!

Come Back Mode

To add some more fun to end-of-the-year learning, we put out the brand-new Come Back Mode, which has all removed powerups, including music powerups.

This is basically a retro mode, where you can play Gimkit with only the powerups that have been removed from Gimkit. Plus, whenever a powerup leaves the other modes and regular game, they'll show up in this mode.

Come Back mode is available now for a limited time, so get those games in!

Smart Repetition for Gimkit Live

Our most upvoted product suggestion in our feedback center, Smart Repetition was a big release for us this month!

Thanks to you all and to Fadi (who built the thing), students now see questions they struggle with more often in Gimkit Live — for live games AND assignments.

Until this update, once a student answered all of the questions in a Kit, we started showing them the questions again at random.

Now, after a student answers every question, they still see the questions again at random, but with a new weighting system that prioritizes questions they answered incorrectly the first time around.

While this doesn't mean your students will only see questions they missed, it does mean they'll be more likely to see those questions.

Thank you to everyone who used our feedback center to request this update!

Read To Me for Gimkit Live

This one was another popular request on our feedback page (and another Fadi project)!

With Read to Me, Gimkit Live questions and answers can be read out loud in the language the Kit was created for.

This improves accessibility in Gimkit Live in a big way. It should also help those of you who use Gimkit with lower grade levels.

I'm so excited that we were able to get this one out to you all — it's been a long time coming!

And That’s It!

Thank you all for another incredible month!

This school year has been especially trying and difficult in a singular way. You’re almost there.

You’re doing amazing work and impacting your students’ lives in ways they’ll carry with them forever. Keep it up and enjoy your (much deserved) summer break! 💜