Very Easy Jeopardy for Classrooms

If you use (or would like to use) Jeopardy-style games in you classroom, you need to check out http://jeopardylabs.com/ .  If you have every created Jeopardy games in PowerPoint, you know how much work goes into it.  Well, with JeopardyLabs, most of the work is done for you.

A great feature is the ability to create your games on any computer and access them from any computer.  Also, they are password protected so only you can edit them.

Once you click "Start Building!", you will see the screen below.

To add a question, you just click the dollar amount you want to add a question for and you will see the screen pictured below.

Also, you don't have to use every square.  For example, you can fill in only three categories with only three questions each and click save.  You will be given links to play and edit the game.  When you start to play the game, you are asked for the number of teams. Then, you will seen something similar to the screen below.

When you click on a dollar amount, you will see the "answer" and you have the option to display the correct "question" after students have answered (remember Jeopardy is backwards).  Then, you can click the + or - sign under the appropriate team and they will be credit the points based on the question's value.