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A great game, or a game that follows through.

Kahoot! is the better show. Zelvi is built for the minute after the last question: every miss becomes that student’s practice, and the instructor gets what to reteach.

Choose Zelvi if

  • You want the quiz drawn from your course’s own reviewed questions.
  • You want each student to practise exactly what they missed afterwards, with a hint before the answer.
  • You want a reteach list that separates “nobody answered” from “everybody got it wrong”.
  • Your institution needs the results tied to enrolled students and kept inside its own tenant.

Choose Kahoot! if

  • You want the most polished classroom game, with many formats and a sense of occasion.
  • You want a huge library of ready-made quizzes on almost any topic.
  • You want anyone to join in seconds with a PIN and a nickname, no accounts.
  • You want native phone apps and a brand every student already knows.

Feature by feature

Zelvi compared with Kahoot!, feature by feature
FeatureZelviKahoot!
Where the questions come fromThe course’s faculty-reviewed practice itemsQuizzes teachers make, plus a very large public library
Ready-made quizzesNone — every question comes from your courseIts biggest advantage
JoiningSigned-in, enrolled students, by code or QRAnyone with the PIN and a nickname
After a wrong answerThe miss opens as that student’s practice with Ava: hint first, then the explanationThe correct answer on screen, with reports and self-paced follow-ups
What the instructor sees at the endHardest questions first; unanswered questions shown as no evidence, not 0%Reports that flag difficult questions and players who need help
Game formats and polishOne timed quiz formatMany modes, music and a polished classroom show
Tied to the course roster and tenantEnrolled students only; each institution isolated at the databaseSchool and district plans organised around teachers and kahoots
Native mobile appNone — an installable web appiOS and Android

What Kahoot! does better

Kahoot! is the better classroom game, and it is not close. Its formats, polish, question library and zero-account join are years ahead of ours, and a teacher who wants energy in the room and a quiz on any topic in two minutes should use it.

What our side of this rests on

  • Run a timed whole-class quiz from the course’s reviewed questions, then send each student’s misses to practice with AvaAnswers are marked on the server; a student’s phone never receives the answer key or the class tally, and the instructor gets the questions the room found hardest, first.
  • A wrong answer gets a hint, then the full explanation, and every attempt is marked from the faculty-reviewed answer with no AI in the markingThe answer is withheld after the first miss so the retry still counts, and a second attempt after a hint is recorded apart from a first-time correct answer.
  • Each institution’s data is isolated at the database level, not by application codeTen checks run as a real signed-in user, so the database’s own access rules are genuinely exercised rather than assumed.

Questions people actually ask

Can I import my kahoots?
No. Zelvi’s live games draw from the course’s own reviewed practice items, because those are what each student’s follow-up practice is built from.
Why do students have to sign in?
Because the point is what happens to each student’s misses afterwards, and that needs to know who they are and which course they are on.
Can a class use both?
Yes. Kahoot! for a warm-up on anything; Zelvi when the quiz should come from the course and feed each student’s practice.

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