Kahoot! vs. Renaissance Accelerated Reader

Kahoot!

Renaissance Accelerated Reader

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Kahoot!	Score 8.8 out of 10	N/A	Kahoot! is a game-based learning platform designed to make it easy to create, share and play learning games or trivia quizzes in minutes from the company of the same name headquartered in Oslo.	$250 to host an unlimited number of kahoots at one event
Renaissance Accelerated Reader	Score 9.9 out of 10	N/A	Renaissance Accelerated Reader® is designed to save educators time by empowering them with Learnalytics® to make differentiating independent and close reading practice effortless – all while maintaining the flexibility necessary to fit within existing classroom routines. Students are engaged in reading self-selected authentic books and articles. Short comprehension quizzes and built-in close reading practice activities, combined with automatic and educator feedback, keep students…	N/A

Pricing

Kahoot!

Renaissance Accelerated Reader

Editions & Modules

Kahoot! Event Bronze: $250
to host an unlimited number of kahoots at one event
Kahoot! 360 Spirit for small teams: $500.00
per month for 25 members (annual subscription billed monthly)
Kahoot! Event Silver: $500
to host an unlimited number of kahoots at one event
Kahoot! 360 Spirit Premium: $625.00
per month for 25 members annual plan billed monthly
Kahoot! Event Gold: $750
to host an unlimited number of kahoots at one event
Kahoot! 360 Spirit for large teams: $1600.00
per month for 100 members annual plan billed monthly
Kahoot! 360 for Enterprises: Contact Sales

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Offerings

Pricing Offerings
Kahoot!	Renaissance Accelerated Reader
Free Trial
No	No
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

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Community Pulse
	Kahoot!	Renaissance Accelerated Reader
Considered Both Products	Kahoot! Verified User Anonymous Chose Kahoot! Kahoot! is well tailored to fit the requirements. Whatever you look for is found in Kahoot! therefore it saves you a lot of time in designing training programs while other applications/platforms require a lot of efforts and it is hard to find your way through on the web and … Incentivized Helpful? Anastasia Globa Lecturer in Computational Design and Advanced Manufacturing (Architecture) Chose Kahoot! Kahoot! is very engaging and set up to run quizzes as knowledge competitions. Incentivized Helpful? JA Joanel Dave Azarcon Presales Chose Kahoot! I forgot the names of the other products like Kahoot. I think that summarizes how close I am to favoring Kahoot within this category. In our field when it's webinar time we always look forward to Kahoot sessions in between or at the end of the session. It is great to have … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Kahoot! It is easy to use, more convenient and easy to understand to use. Other application needs to choose first the user photo before joining the game. Most of them has a lag or crash moment. Incentivized Helpful? Kristine Dianne Caballa-Pasion Technolgy Services Consultant Chose Kahoot! This question is not applicable to me. Incentivized Helpful? RV Romabel Ventura Account Manager Chose Kahoot! I only experience Kahoot and joinmyquizz and have an enjoyable experience. For me, Kahoot is more user-friendly compared to the other game tool. Also, it is not confusing in terms of questions and answers and you will see the rank leader right away. I think Kahoot is most … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Kahoot! None, I haven't used any other product aside from Kahoot. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Kahoot! I have not left a review for Quizlet on the website, but it is the closest experience I have had within a similar field group. I've never used Quizlet within a work environment, however, I like that Quizlet allows you to establish your own questions and tests and apply that to … Incentivized Helpful? Jhoya Jopson Account Manager Chose Kahoot! Display questions and answers. Incentivized Helpful? NC Nikka CRISOSTOMO Senior Account Manager Chose Kahoot! Kahoot is easier to use, we are more familiar with Kahoot and how it is played. Easy to explain to clients the mechanics of the game. Kahoot is more popular to use when it comes to online games, learning check and fun for clients. Incentivized Helpful? Chrisse Olsson Olsson Interventionist/GT facilitator Chose Kahoot! Kahoot is more interactive than Quizlet and Google Classroom providing more engaging learning tools when using. I like Kahoot over Quizlet because of the choice and fun activities that students and teachers can use to check understanding and expand concepts. It gets students … Incentivized Helpful? Janet Ramos Account Manager Chose Kahoot! Most of the time, the organizers of the webinars or training I attended are using Kahoot. It's fun to use, the fun music while using it, and the cute images. It makes the event lively and exciting while playing. Incentivized Helpful? DH dov hochbaum edtech Chose Kahoot! It is a slightly different program. Kahoot allows for a game against everyone while Quizlet allows the user to play various learning games such as matching and flashcards. Quizlet Live is similar in that there is a gaming aspect but the game is different in that Kahoot everyone … Incentivized Helpful? Rachel Piper Middle School Humanities Teacher Chose Kahoot! Kahoot is better for my competitive students, they love seeing their name constantly on the leaderboard. Kahoot has more lessons to chose from and my students simply like it more than Quizizz. Quizizz is good for more formal assessments, while Kahoot is better for more whole … Incentivized Helpful? Emily Hammell Marketing and Communications Manager Chose Kahoot! Poll Everywhere had some cool and handy features but didn't offer a robust amount of options for our team, offering tools for internal and external communications. Poll Everywhere also offered a wide array of integrations that were extremely useful but weren't enough to sway … Incentivized Helpful? CM Carly McPartland 1st Grade Teacher Chose Kahoot! Kahoot is more engaging than Quizlet. Quizlet is simple and clean. Kahoot's user interface is a bit brighter and busier. Students pay more attention to Kahoot, and request to use it when reviewing information from a lesson or chapter. Kahoot can be used for multiple components … Incentivized Helpful? Stacey Stearns Program Specialist Chose Kahoot! We've used Qualtrics in the past to collect the information, but it really isn't designed to be used as a "quiz" feature. We have to export each student's answer individually and that's a tedious process. There's also no automatic feedback. We've also used Quizziz a few times … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Kahoot! I did not use any other application. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Kahoot! None, Kahoot! is the market leader. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Kahoot! Blue Canoe includes games to provide users more means to learn the language in a different way. This program marks each day and sets goals for users to improve participation and engagements. However, it does not have an interface that students and teachers can both work … Incentivized Helpful? Matthew Gardner Director of Customer Success Chose Kahoot! We have also used myQuiz.org which is a totally free alternative. We use them both right now. Kahoot! has more features and looks more polished but myQuiz gets the job done if you need to quickly throw together a simple quiz competition at no charge. myQuiz isn't suited for … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Kahoot! Haven't used any others. Incentivized Helpful? Gina Ruffcorn 5th grade teacher Chose Kahoot! Kahoot offers a plethora of options for creating learning activities to use in the classroom. The variety of choices that I can incorporate when making Kahoots allows me to keep my learners actively engaged. I can differentiate learning for all of my students easily using … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Kahoot! I only have been using Kahoot! Incentivized Helpful? CW Carl Winter Teacher Chose Kahoot! Kahoot! is very similar to programs like GimKit or Quizlet or Quizziz. I find Kahoot! to be easier to use and it has greater capacity for free storage of quizzes. I have some I've used in past years and they're still available to me. Low cost is exceptionally important to me. Incentivized Helpful?	Renaissance Accelerated Reader AD Andrea De Leon Library Aide/Media Specialist Chose Renaissance Accelerated Reader Renaissance Accelerated Reader for me is better than other programs. I haven't had much experience with the other programs but for me this was the easiest to understand and to develop. I have been looking into learning more about the Renaissance Accelerated Reader program in … Incentivized Helpful? VS VIvian Salazar Teacher Chose Renaissance Accelerated Reader They go hand in hand. What I loved was that when they would read a book on MyOn, it would take then directly to the AR quiz. This helped my lower leveled students who struggle when typing. I also like that they can pick whether it reads them the book or not. Incentivized Helpful? AE Alma Escamilla Teacher Chose Renaissance Accelerated Reader Renaissance Accelerated Reader has a greater variation of books available to all students. While MyOn has its own books that are easily accessable an testable through Renaissance Accelerated Reader. I love the fact that students can read books at home that they already have, … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Renaissance Accelerated Reader This program was set up by our district for our students to work with and I believe is a great program for students love reading. Incentivized Helpful? VB Vanessa Brown teacher Chose Renaissance Accelerated Reader I use MyOn in conjunction with Accelerated Reader. They work hand in hand together. Incentivized Helpful? LH Lynn Humphrey Kindergarten Teacher Chose Renaissance Accelerated Reader I have not used any other products like this. I have used Accelerated Reader for about 20 years, and I have nothing else to compare it to. I have NOT used A/B Smartly, but I could not skip this question so I had to randomly select something. AR is a good product. If it … Incentivized Helpful? Stacia Guarisco High School English Teacher Chose Renaissance Accelerated Reader Renaissance Accelerated Reader offers so much more than accountability. If used properly, Renaisssance Accelerated Reader provides statistics and data teachers can use to align lessons and group students. The program offers visual reports and goal setting as well as rewards. As … Incentivized Helpful? DB Diane Bunn Teacher Chose Renaissance Accelerated Reader I love Renaissance Accelerated Reader because it is always consistent and it tries to keep up with and turn out products that will engage students. Accelerated Reader is the best at what it does and gives me great data to help monitor my students' reading comprehension without … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Renaissance Accelerated Reader Epic's collection of books is far superior to Ren Place's my/on. Epic is more user friendly and visually engaging. Incentivized Helpful? VD Vivian Dawson Paraprofession Special Education Chose Renaissance Accelerated Reader I have not used any of the products listed. However, AR has been my choice of product. My school system choice this product because it interfaces well with all other reading and testing programs that have been purchased. It is an excellent product, but that is a given since it … Incentivized Helpful? Kerri Ziegler Special Education Department Chair Chose Renaissance Accelerated Reader STAR assessments work well with [Renaissance] Accelerated Reader. The STAR assessment can inform students what material they will be able to comprehend and help guide teachers when they are trying to help students find books to read. STAR assessments also help teachers focus … Incentivized Helpful? MS Meredith Sanders Teacher Chose Renaissance Accelerated Reader I love having access to Renaissance Accelerated Reader for science class. I loved the Renaissance Accelerated Math program just as much, but currently I do not have access to it through my district. All Renaissance products I have used in my 18 years in education have been … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Renaissance Accelerated Reader We have been using Accelerated Reader for quite some years at our school district. I think it is a good program that gives students the tools to become better readers. The website is user friendly and very self explanatory. Students are able to track their progress and set … Incentivized Helpful? Stephania Sherman, Ed. D Academic and Teaching Director Chose Renaissance Accelerated Reader Our teachers and students love Freckle! The students are able to interact with the platform on a student-specific pathway. The students love the pig and the interactive graphics. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Renaissance Accelerated Reader I have only used AR in my classroom during the years. Incentivized Helpful? AW Angela Williams librarian Chose Renaissance Accelerated Reader I like the Renaissance products. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Renaissance Accelerated Reader I don't know another program like this. We do have many online resources that we use, but nothing like Accelerated Reader. I like that even when we use ebooks such as Capstone, we can link the book to Renaissance so that they can take the test immediately after the book ends. Incentivized Helpful? Keyanna Kimbrough Teacher Chose Renaissance Accelerated Reader They both are awesome. Incentivized Helpful? MY milecha young English Teacher Chose Renaissance Accelerated Reader I haven't used any other product like this. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Renaissance Accelerated Reader There is no comparable product. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Renaissance Accelerated Reader I know of no other product that is similar to Accelerated Reader. Incentivized Helpful? EC Elizabeth Cavazos Librarian Chose Renaissance Accelerated Reader There is no other program that compares to Accelerated Reader. Incentivized Helpful? JS Jessica Spivey School Library Media Specialist Chose Renaissance Accelerated Reader They are about the same. The only difference is that MyOn has ebooks. The tests seem to be very similar. Incentivized Helpful? JT Jennifer Taylor Reading Teacher Chose Renaissance Accelerated Reader We use both DRA and Renaissance products in our school. I like DRA for benchmarking and for in-depth responses from students. I can use DRA to pinpoint errors because I can see the answers, unlike the STAR assessments (the placement tests given in conjunction with Accelerated … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Renaissance Accelerated Reader This is the only program like this which I have used. Incentivized Helpful?

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User Ratings
	Kahoot!	Renaissance Accelerated Reader
Likelihood to Recommend	8.7 (0 ratings)	9.9 (0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	- (0 ratings)	9.1 (0 ratings)
Usability	9.2 (0 ratings)	10.0 (0 ratings)
Availability	- (0 ratings)	9.1 (0 ratings)
Performance	- (0 ratings)	9.1 (0 ratings)
Support Rating	9.2 (0 ratings)	9.0 (0 ratings)
Implementation Rating	- (0 ratings)	5.5 (0 ratings)
Configurability	- (0 ratings)	6.4 (0 ratings)
Ease of integration	- (0 ratings)	4.5 (0 ratings)
Product Scalability	- (0 ratings)	9.1 (0 ratings)
Vendor post-sale	- (0 ratings)	9.1 (0 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale	- (0 ratings)	9.1 (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Kahoot!	Renaissance Accelerated Reader
Likelihood to Recommend	Kahoot is excellent for more mature students, I would say students in 3rd grade and above. It's excellent if you want to create a fun and engaging way to test or quiz students, or even just to review content information. I really appreciate that there are thousands of already made lessons, so I almost never have to make my own! I get to simply search, make sure it's appropriate for what I'm looking for, and use it (yay no prep!). Incentivized Rachel Piper Middle School Humanities Teacher Read full review	I have found Renaissance Accelerated Reader to be well-suited for elementary readers. I don't have experience using it with high school students; however, I know that for our elementary readers, there are no shortages of tests available. Our students can read trade books, articles within the program, or even stories from our textbooks and take tests on them Melissa Thomasson Teacher Read full review
Pros	Useful for either, in-person or online classes: it can work from a projector or screen in in-person classes, or by sharing the screen in online classes. Excellent to get an idea of the understanding or knowledge level of a group of people: depending on the intention of the game, the professor or person in charge of it can make and change the questions to address certain points. Easy to use for both professors and students: Kahoot is intuitive, simple, and fun to use. Interactive and engaging: Kahoot is a game designed to work as a tool for professors, which makes it perfect to use with students. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	If used correctly, Accelerated Reader helps students grow with their reading comprehension and vocabulary skills. I advise teachers to have one on one conversations with students when setting goals (allow students to have input) so that the students are given more responsibility to achieve their own goals. Renaissance's online chat/customer service is outstanding. They can usually answer my questions and do so in an understandable manner. They seem to be willing to help and will follow through if necessary. There are many reports that Accelerated Reader administrators can use to help decipher the data created from their students taking Accelerated Reader quizzes. Incentivized Jason Eifling Library Media Specialist Read full review
Cons	They can add more ways to perform quizzes. The site is not very simple to find your way through. It is uploaded with so much data; therefore it would be good if they can organize it a little bit. It would be good to give free templates to free users to attract them. Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Creating Spanish reports similar to the ones accessed in English. Simplifying the way books students can find an AR quiz. It does not find books if students are missing a "question mark" or "exclamation mark". Deleting a quiz when a student enters the wrong book title and begins a quiz. It has been difficult to remove a quiz and the quiz appears even after the monitor password has been entered. LQ Laura Quiroz Librarian Read full review
Likelihood to Renew	No answers on this topic	[Renaissance] Accelerated Reader is a great way to track student progress, motivate students to read, and measure their comprehension. Accelerated reader gives both teachers and students immediate feedback. There are countless options of books for students and can help increase student interest in books and improve students' reading ability. Incentivized Kerri Ziegler Special Education Department Chair Read full review
Usability	The site's currently layout feels busy. If you are not a seasoned Kahoot user, it is easy to be distracted and overwhelmed by the information presented. I would not recommend this site to a novice computer user. If the user is tech-savvy and willing to navigate the help topics provided by the site, lessons and games can be created more easily with time and practice. Incentivized CM Carly McPartland 1st Grade Teacher Read full review	I give Renaissance Accelerated Reader a great 10 in usability rating. I give this rating because overall the program is very easy to use and for the most part easy to understand. I am currently in my first year working in the library and with the teachers using the Renaissance Accelerated Reader program so there is still much to learn, but it has been an overall great experience so far. All of the data is easy to read and there is so much information to look over in case anything is missed or not understood. I have so far been very happy with the Renaissance Accelerated Reader program and what it has done for the students. AD Andrea De Leon Library Aide/Media Specialist Read full review
Reliability and Availability	No answers on this topic	I have not encountered any problems with availability Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Performance	No answers on this topic	Quick loading, no issues. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Support Rating	The information that Kahoot shares on its blog and support center is updated frequently and provides many ideas for ways to use the platform. I have personally received timely support from Kahoot for any issues I have encountered. Their dedication to their users is amazing. The company is incredibly receptive to suggestions or ideas from their community. Incentivized Gina Ruffcorn 5th grade teacher Read full review	Renaissance Reader has a great support team, and generally, they are quick to respond when needed. The live chat tool is a life-saver when trying to get your problems solved in real-time. They also have a lot of online support articles that ensure that you can get your questions answered without necessarily having to use the live chat during the school day. SB Steve Braband Innovative Teaching Coach Read full review
Implementation Rating	No answers on this topic	Extensive training on Ren Place is necessary. There are a myriad of reports that we need help understanding. I have joined Ren Royals and have learned a lot from that support piece. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Alternatives Considered	I forgot the names of the other products like Kahoot. I think that summarizes how close I am to favoring Kahoot within this category. In our field when it's webinar time we always look forward to Kahoot sessions in between or at the end of the session. It is great to have Kahoot during these times Incentivized JA Joanel Dave Azarcon Presales Read full review	STAR assessments work well with [Renaissance] Accelerated Reader. The STAR assessment can inform students what material they will be able to comprehend and help guide teachers when they are trying to help students find books to read. STAR assessments also help teachers focus on comprehension and vocabulary skills which then lends to help students understand what they are reading and utilize [Renaissance] Accelerated Reader. Incentivized Kerri Ziegler Special Education Department Chair Read full review
Scalability	No answers on this topic	Because students can take tests on varying book levels. Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Return on Investment	We use the free version so there is definitely ROI for us. It provides easy access to a quiz feature without having to use complicated software. So many people are using it now that some students seem to be getting a little "over it." Incentivized Stacey Stearns Program Specialist Read full review	I have seen a positive impact using AR by allowing us to track independent reading time more effectively. We can analyze student data in ways that would be either too time-consuming or too difficult to track on our own. Student engagement has increased when students can use their ZPDs to help find books that are in a readable range for them. Incentivized JT Jennifer Taylor Reading Teacher Read full review
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