Connecting with students virtually can be challenging, when you’re on one side of the screen, and they’re on the other. Let your Bitmoji help you run the virtual lesson and make it awesome!

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This school year, many teachers turned to Bitmoji to create a safe, familiar and motivating environment in their virtual lessons. According to teachers, they’re “hooked,” “addicted,” or “obsessed” with creating their Bitmoji classrooms – and we can see why! Not familiar with Bitmoji yet? It’s your personalized cartoon avatar that you can use in various apps – and it’s been particularly popular among educators!)

With our new integration, you can add your Bitmoji to a live kahoot to help you liven up your virtual classroom, add a more personal and familiar feel to it, and better connect with your students. This feature is available for free for all teachers.

The new 3D Bitmoji avatars are available in the US and offer over 1,200 different combinations of facial expressions, poses, backgrounds, and gestures. According to Snap, more than 70 per cent of. Bitmoji has created packs pegged to Game of Thrones, Inside Out, and The Force Awakens, and designed tie-ins for Time’s “Person of the Year” and People’s “Sexiest Man Alive.” (The app. Bitmoji is your own personal emoji. Create an expressive cartoon avatar, choose from a growing library of moods and stickers - featuring YOU! Put them into any text message, chat or status update. ‎Bitmoji is your own personal emoji. Create an expressive cartoon avatar. Choose from a huge library of stickers – all featuring YOU. Use Bitmoji in Snapchat and wherever else you chat Using Bitmoji in Snapchat unlocks Friendmoji – 2-person Bitmojis featuring you and your friends! You can easily create Bitmoji stickers to use for feedback in your classroom using Google Drawings. Decide on the size of template you want to use (we suggest around the 3 x 3 inch or 300 x 300 px size), create a shape for the background of your sticker (i.e. A circle or square), and drag and drop your Bitmoji on top.

But that’s not all! Not only teachers but anyone on Kahoot! can now use their Bitmoji as their profile picture. Add a personal touch and let the community know who stands behind those awesome kahoots! Moreover, students can use Bitmoji when competing in leagues. Read on for more details about each of these capabilities.

How to add Bitmoji classroom to a live kahoot

If you haven’t designed your Bitmoji yet, you can do this within the Bitmoji app on your phone – it only takes a couple of minutes. Then, you need to add it as your Kahoot! profile picture. Here’s how:

In your browser:

(Instructions updated in April 2021)

1. Log in to your Kahoot! account at kahoot.com.
2. Click on your profile picture in the top right corner. Under Settings, go to Profile settings.
3. In the User information section, click Connect with Bitmoji.
4. Select between two suggested options. You can select Connect with Bitmoji and scan the QR code with your phone camera to connect Kahoot! to Bitmoji. Alternatively, you can click Continue with Snapchat and use your credentials to log in.

In the Kahoot! app:

(Instructions updated in May 2021)

1. Make sure you’re logged in to your Kahoot! account.
2. Tap your profile image in the top left corner of the screen.
3. Tap the image in order to change it and select Bitmoji. Tap Continue in the dialog informing you of third-party applications.
4. If you have the Bitmoji app on your phone, you’ll be taken to the app and asked for permission to connect to Kahoot!. Tap Connect to confirm, and your Bitmoji will be automatically added to Kahoot!.
5. If you only have the Snapchat app installed on your phone, you will be asked to allow the Kahoot! app to access your Bitmoji through that app. Tap Continue to complete the process.

Now, you’re all set to add a Bitmoji classroom to your live kahoot! Here’s how it works:

1. Open a kahoot you’d like to host, click Play and Teach.
2. Toggle Bitmoji on in the game options.
3. Your Bitmoji will be displayed in the classroom-themed lobby while students are joining the kahoot and in the final podium.

Use a Bitmoji as your Kahoot! profile picture

Now that you’ve added a Bitmoji as your Kahoot! profile picture, it’ll be displayed next to kahoots you’ve created, like this:

This feature is available for all Kahoot! users.

Liven up leagues with Bitmoji

The recently launched leagues within the Kahoot! app give learners an engaging and fun way to study together, compete and connect virtually. A league is a virtual group where learners can invite their friends, add kahoots, and follow a joint scoreboard as members are completing games. Now, with the addition of Bitmoji, competition will get an even more social and personal feel. Students’ Bitmoji avatars will be displayed in the league lobby, on the scoreboard, and podium.

In addition to teachers, Bitmoji support is also available for anyone registered with a Kahoot! account for personal use. Surprise your friends with a Bitmoji in the next kahoot you’re playing together!

We’d love to see your Bitmoji in action in virtual classrooms and other settings, so try this new feature today and share your experience by tweeting @getkahoot.

Class Bitmojis have become super popular since teachers are providing a more blended learning experience for their students. A Class Bitmoji is simply just a graphical image, usually a PowerPoint or a Google Slide which contains a number of images hyperlinked to the resources that the teacher wants to make available to their students.

The advantage of creating a Class Bitmoji is that it provides a more graphical and fun space for students to access classwork and resources. Especially for junior students who can respond to images and icons a lot quicker than lists of text links.

Bitmoji is an app available for free on mobile devices. Download to your phone or tablet and then create a Bitmoji character using facial features, clothing, and bodies – to look like you. Once created you can choose different poses using that created Bitmoji character to represent yourself. You can copy and post those images into your phones messaging apps. Install the web browser plugin to Edge or Chrome and you can copy those images into any of your computer apps like PowerPoint, Word etc.

A Class Bitmoji is simply a scene you create with hyperlinked objects and then you add a Bitmoji of yourself as the teacher. There are many different tools and methods available to create an image containing hyperlinks but PowerPoint is probably the easiest to use, has the most features and is easy to update when stored in OneDrive. So we will use PowerPoint to create our Class Bitmoji.

• Open PowerPoint and add a Blank Slide, then save the PowerPoint into your personal OneDrive
• Now click Insert > Pictures and choose Online Pictures
• Do a search for Room Background, and choose an image and click Insert
• Resize the image to fit your PowerPoint Slide

• Now your background is in, start to add other images representing your classroom
• Some ways PowerPoint makes this easy
  • Insert > Pictures – choose from Online, Stock Images (images, icons, people, stickers) or images on your computer
  • Insert 3D Models – choose from your computer or from PowerPoint’s collection of resizeable, rotatable 3D Images (some are even animated)
  • Insert WordArt
  • Insert SmartArt and Charts
• I have gone ahead and added – a Whiteboard, chair, poster quote, Roman coins and bookshelf using Online Pictures search (use the “transparent filter” when searching)
• I added some stock 3D Models – animated globe, books, TV, % symbol, laptop
• I added some logos for digital tools our students use – Wakelet, SeeSaw, Wheelers e-books and Orbit library catalogue
• I added a Text box to the whiteboard with major events this week
• I added a Bitmoji I made of myself and chose the waving pose

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Now you have your Class Bitmoji PowerPoint slide images where you want them it is time to add hyperlinks to each object you want to be “clickable”.

For each of the Objects you want to be a Hyperlink:

• In your web browser open the webpage you want students to get to
• copy the URL (web address) from the Address Bar (eg. https://www.wakelet.com)
• In PowerPoint left click your object (make sure its the only object you select) and on your keyboard press the CTRL and K keys (this will open a pop up box ready for you to paste the URL address in)
• paste your URL and click OK
• repeat for all objects you want hyperlinked

Now from OneDrive we will create the link we need to share our Class Bitmoji inside the Microsoft Team. This can be quite tricky so bear with me. The key is getting the correct URL for adding to Microsoft Teams. Microsoft generates different URLs depending on where and how you share the PowerPoint file.

• In OneDrive set the Sharing on the PowerPoint file so your class can Read it from your personal OneDrive.
  • Right click the PowerPoint file and select Sharing – then change the sharing options to Anyone with the Link Can View (or those in your Organisation can view) click Apply
    
• Now right click on your Class Bitmoji PowerPoint file and choose Open In PowerPoint Online
• your Class Bitmoji PowerPoint will open in your default web browser
• edit the URL in the browser Address Bar, deleting everything after action=
  
• and replace the deleted text with embedview, then click Enter
  
• so now my URL looks like this
  
• it is this URL which we need to copy and paste into Microsoft Teams
• from the browser tab – copy the full URL then open Microsoft Teams, to your Class Team

• In your Class Team, add a new Tab and choose Website
• Change the name of the Tab to whatever you want Students to see
• Paste your modified link that you copied from Notepad
  

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Now when students open your Class Team and click on the Class Bitmoji tab, they will be presented with your hyperlinked class image!

Bitmoji Login

This is the beauty of saving the Class Bitmoji PowerPoint in your OneDrive. You can simply open it from OneDrive and make your changes. The Class Bitmoji in your Class Team will automatically reflect those changes as you save them. Just open the Class Bitmoji PowerPoint and make whatever changes you need. Create different Class Bitmoji depending on the time of the Year or what the learning focus might be in your class. Have some fun.

If your school is also using SharePoint you can embed your Class Bitmoji there. On your Class Page, add the Embed webpart, paste in your modified URL (the one you added embedview to earlier) and save. Again – any changes you make will automatically update here when you edit your Class Bitmoji from OneDrive.

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