Quizlet Live

Link for teachers to set it up: www.quizlet.com create an account and follow the
steps below (also see the Quizlet section on our Weebly site).
Link for students to access games: https://quizlet.com/live
What is Quizlet Live?
Another feature of the app Quizlet is Quizlet Live. Quizlet Live allows teachers to set
up a group-based game that occurs in real-time and which tests students on the sets
from regular Quizlet. Students need a device each, but do not require a Quizlet
account in order to play. Participants in the game (minimum of six) are randomly
assigned into different teams. The size and number of these teams depends on the
number of people playing.
When each game begins, twelve items are randomly chosen out of the selected set,
and these are items that players are tested on. Each team member is prompted with
the same single item, but each team member has multiple answers to choose from.
The team, therefore, must work together to get all the correct answers.
A team wins when it gets all twelve items right in a row; a single wrong answer resets
the team score to zero and prompts teams with the words again. This means that even
if a team is behind, it can catch up if another team provides an incorrect response.
When a team gets to twelve correct answers in a row, the game ends and displays the
winner. Another round can then be started; teams can also be shuffled, providing a
new, random combination of team members.
Why use Quizlet Live?

Quizlet Live is fun, and engages students in learning. This arouses students
interests and motivates them to seek to overcome the games challenges,
Engaging and motivating students in this way is an important factor in student
achievement (Woolfolk and Margetts, 2016).

Quizlet Live requires students to collaborate and cooperate with each one
another in order to achieve goals and learn. They share their knowledge and
ideas, and in so doing scaffold each other to achieve what they would not be
able to do without this collaboration (Woolfolk and Margetts, 2016). This
insight is based on the social constructivist theory of Vygotsky (1978), who
conceptualised these tasks that can only be done with scaffolding or what the
student is ready to learn next as falling into the zone of proximal
development. Through social interaction such that necessitated by the teamnature of Quizlet Live, knowledge is co-constructed by students and they can
come to know more than they could discover alone. Hattie (2012, p. 83)
notes that cooperative learning exceeds all alternatives, based on the effect
size garnered from his meta-study of teaching strategies (Hattie, 2009).

Quizlet Live provides instant feedback to students on the knowledge chosen

for the game, as well as giving them further opportunities to practise this
knowledge in light of this feedback. Hattie and Timperley (2007, p. 84), note
that the most effective formsprovide cues or reinforcement[and] are in
the form of video-, audio-, or computer-assisted instructional feedback; and/or
relate to goals. The spaced repetition of vocabulary, which is a feature of
Quizlet Live, has also been shown to be more effective for retaining
information than massed practice (Cull, 2000).

How do you set up Quizlet Live?

Setting up Quizlet Live is quite simple. Follow these steps:
1. Choose a Quizlet set on which the game will be based. There are many Latin
sets already on Quizlet, for the usual textbooks (Oxford Latin Course,
Cambridge Latin Course), as well as Mastermans list; alternatively, you can
make your own. See the Quizlet section of this site.
2. Go to the page for the particular set.
E.g.:

3. At the top of the screen, under the title of the list, you will see several icons
under the headings study and play. On the far right you should see an icon
which says Live. Click on this.

4. You will be taken to the Quizlet Live welcome page. This page provides you
with some information to get started. To create a game, there is a button in the
top-right of the page called Create Game. The title of the set you are using

should be displayed underneath it so that you know you have selected the
correct set. Click Create Game.

5. On the next page, you will be presented with a link and a join code. This page
must be projected for students to see. The link will always be the same
(https://quizlet.com/live), but the join code is unique for each game. If
students go to this link, they will be prompted to enter the join code. To join
your game, students simply need to enter this code and enter a nickname, they
do not need an account. Clicking on a name in this list will delete it from the
game. This is useful for when students inevitably enter inappropriate
nicknames.

What students will see when they go to quizlet.live:

6. Once all the students have joined, you can click start game, which will
appear in the top right hand corner of the screen. You need at least six
students to join in order to start a game.
7. The teams will then be displayed for the game. The teams will be given autogenerated names in Latin! Physically move students in the classroom into
teams before the game begins, and when they are together, click start.
What does Quizlet Live look like in action?
Apart from actually playing a round of Quizlet Live, the best way to view this is using
the demo tools that Quizlet Live provides on its website. These can be accessed
through the following link: https://quizlet.com/features/live
Also see the official Quizlet Live guided tour: https://vimeo.com/161809345