“Padlet Arcade” Looks Like A Great – &, For Now At Least, Free – Place To Easily Create Online Learning Games

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As most teachers know, Padlet is a particularly useful online tool that can be used for many purposes.

Now, they’ve created a completely separate AI-powered site called Padlet Arcade.

For now, at least, it’s completely free, and students don’t have to register or login to play any of the games. I learned about it from Tony Vincent, and I would recommend signing up for his newsletter.

It’s a pretty neat site. If you, as the teacher, sign-up and login (again, for free) you can copy any game that’s there or easily create your own. They’re not very clear about how to do it, but if you copy a game or create your own, and share that link with your students, then you will see the scores of only your students. When students play any game on the site, their scores go to some kind of universal leaderboard. I’ll explain more a little later.

When you first want to create a game (again, you also have the option of copy someone else’s), you are sent to “Describe your game” and then you’re given various choices about what you want it to look like (Fill in the blanks, flashcards, multiple choice, etc.).  Once you review it, you submit it and it’s done.  There is no limit on the number of games you can create – for now, at least.

Here’s what ChatGPT says to do if you want to see scores from your own students:

1. Generate a fresh game.

2. Keep it “Secret – Link only.”

3. Share only inside your LMS.

4. Tell students to use:

5. Don’t post the link publicly.

That will effectively give you a class-only leaderboard.

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