Getting Started

• 🚪 Join a live game

  Look for the game code or QR Code on your teacher's screen or copy/paste their join link if they shared one Go to gimkit.com/join Enter the game code from your teacher's screen. If your teacher is using classes & you're logged into Gimkit, you'll join the game automatically Enter your name or approve your nickname if your teacher is using the Nickname Generator You're in!Popular

• 🌗 Midgame Issues

  Midgame Issues This article explains why midgame can sometimes occur and the best ways to prevent them from happening. Midgame issues include but aren't limited to game balances not updating, upgrades not activating, and not being able to purchase powerups. Issues like these happen due to something called packet loss. During a Gimkit game, small packets of data are sent to all players of a game to inform them of their current state. These data packets include player's balances, whichFew readers

• 🫣 View the leaderboard on a student device

  Here's how students can view the leaderboard on their own device for non-2D modes! This is perfect for when you're using Gimkit remotely and student's can't see the main leaderboard screen. While in-game, click the D-Pad Icon That's it! The leaderboard will pop open for the student! (https://storage.crisp.chat/users/helpdesk/website/bcd2637da11dc000/xnip2020-03-1911-13-5Few readers

Essentials

• 🤥 Hacking and Cheating

  Hacking and Cheating Hacking and cheating is pretty rare in Gimkit, but to help us pinpoint your concerns we'll need some more information. We have several questions below that can help us determine what's going on. If you have time, take a look and provide answers to all relavent questions into the email thread that you came here from, or in an email to hello@gimkit.com. Does your potential hack/cheating situation occur for just Live Games or Assignments? Or both? Are your studentsPopular

• 🔈 Enable Read to Me

  Read to Me lets students have questions and answers read aloud to them inside of Gimkit Live. Your students can turn Read to Me on and off as they need during the game, but, by default, Read To Me is off. To enable Read To Me, click the menu icon on the top right. Next, click the settings gear on the bottom left. (https://storage.crisp.chat/users/helpdesk/website/bcd2637da11dc000/read-to-me-Few readers

• 🧠 Smart Repetition

  Questions in Gimkit are shown to each player at their own pace. After a player has seen each questions once, they start to repeat. Smart Repetition repeats questions students missed the first time around more often in live games (all modes) and assignments. We use a lottery system that prioritizes questions students got incorrect the first time they answered them. Smart Repetition, like the rest of a Gimkit game, is student-specific. Student A and Student B will have questions repeated depFew readers