Hello, our schoolboard has blocked different apps last year.
I have been trying to adapt to other tools, such as Lumio. But there are drawbacks to Lumio.
Let me explain: When using other apps, such as Quizizz or Kahoot, there are great advantages that should be implemented in Lumio. Here are the top 7 recommendations that I have taken note when speaking to other teachers during the last school year.
What we recommend for Lumio:

1. Individuals, and not only teams, can play different games. It is important to view the student’s progress. The students can progress individually through a true/false and multiple-choice questions quiz at their own speed. Students cannot progress at their speed using Lumio or Kahoot. Quizizz permits this feature.
2. You can put pictures for every type of question in every quiz. All of them. You can even put in short videos and audio files. Offer more choices than other apps. You can put pictures for all questions in the quiz. Certain types of quizzes in Lumio does not permit images when you are building a quiz. Kahoot and Quizizz permits this feature.
3. Individuals can progress at their speed and still get first place. The top scores should be given to all individuals that got the same score. Speed is not important, and the last student can get first place and therefore many students can get first place. Students can progress through the Quizizz at their speed. Lumio does not permit individuals to play Game Based Activities through Monster Quiz or Team Quiz. Lumio needs to have Student paced learning. Kahoot gives points to the person that answers the fastest. Certain students using Kahoot do not take the time to read properly what is asked. Quizizz permits every player to answer individually. Quizizz also permits the slowest player to get first place. Speed is not a detriment.
4. Lumio needs to permit a student to get back to the game if it crashes. Lumio crashes for certain students from time to time. When using Lumio during the 2022-2023 school year with a group of 20 students, Lumio would disconnect a student during the games. This happened about once every 4 games. The student would find themselves not being able to continue playing and just sat there.
5. Lumio should permit printing out all the questions with different formats so that students can also spend time working on paper. We should be able to print: questions only, questions with answers, questions with answers and small images, questions in a test format… everything to help out the teacher reach the students through different formats. Lumio cannot print out questions so that students can study on paper. We cannot print out the questions to spend individual time with a particular student. This is still important because it offers another way for students to look at their paper, read out the question, look at the words, write the answer, confirm with peers that they’re on the right track.
6. Lumio needs to properly work on the teacher’s laptop. Students can see other peer’s progress. The teacher’s main screen sometimes has problems presenting a full screen. We can only see about 40% of all the groups playing the game.
7. Lumio needs to modify the final viewing screens so that the teacher, and the class, can better see the progress of all the questions. The teacher cannot view the real-time insight of the progress. In Quizizz, we can identify student’s needs and adapt immediately to what they are learning. For example, we can have an overview view of all the questions and see which ones gave difficulty to all of the students. In Quizizz, we can see the overall class performance, the toughest question or topic and individual progress. There is also an individual score and a group score. The class can see what the final score for the whole class.

I would strongly recommend Lumio to update with these features. When I meet other teachers from other schoolboards in Ontario, many feel restricted by what Lumio has to offer ever since they have blocked access to other apps. I have observed that certain teachers are going back to paper/pencil teaching because they can spend more time with individual students and keeping better track to what they are learning. I have noticed that many teachers find Lumio not as up to date with many features like other programs such as Quizizz. I have observed that certain teachers would prefer using certain apps (like Quizizz) that have been blocked but would greatly benefit from using them in their class. I have observed that many teachers find that Lumio limits what they create, what they can bring in (import), what they can offer as choices for students, such as print, when teaching in the classroom
Stefane Noel de Tilly