A kit does not stop evolving once you have built it. Between classes you will tweak questions, copy a set for a different group, share your best work with a colleague, and occasionally clear out the clutter. That is what Gimkit kit settings are for — the management layer that keeps your library useful all year.
This guide walks through the five jobs you will do most: editing, duplicating, controlling privacy, sharing and deleting. If you are still at the creation stage, our step-by-step on how to make a Gimkit kit comes first; this article picks up where it leaves off.
how to edit a gimkit kit
Learning how to edit a gimkit kit is a two-minute skill that saves hours. Open your library, choose the kit, and enter the editor. From there you can change the kit’s name, rewrite questions, add or remove questions, attach images, and reorder the bank.
Editing has two natural moments. The first is before a game: a quick scan catches the question you wrote in a hurry, the answer with the typo, the image that no longer matches. The second is after a game, guided by the report — the questions your class missed most deserve a wording check before the kit runs again.
A few editing habits separate tidy libraries from messy ones:
- Edit the copy, not the original — when a change is experimental, duplicate first (see below) so you can roll back.
- Rename after major edits — add the term or level to the title so future-you knows what changed.
- Prune ruthlessly — a kit with eighteen sharp questions outperforms one with thirty padded ones.
Remember that edits apply to future games. Students who already played keep their original results, so mid-unit fixes never rewrite history — they just make the next round better.
duplicate a gimkit kit
The option to duplicate a gimkit kit is the quiet hero of differentiation. One master kit can become three versions in minutes: the standard set, a supported version with hints or simpler wording, and an extension version for students who finish early and need a stretch.
Duplication also protects your work in other ways:
- Template kits — build a skeleton with your preferred settings and question style, then duplicate it for every new topic.
- Seasonal updates — copy last year’s kit, refresh the dated questions, and keep the original archived for reference.
- Safe experimentation — trying a radically different question style? Do it on a copy.
When you duplicate, rename immediately. Libraries fill up with “Unit 4 Review (copy) (copy)” surprisingly fast, and every ambiguous name costs you time at the start of a lesson. A simple pattern — topic, level, version — keeps things findable in seconds.
gimkit kit privacy
Gimkit kit privacy controls who can discover and use your kits. Public kits can appear in the library where other teachers search, which is wonderful when you are the one searching — and worth a moment’s thought when you are the one publishing.
Consider setting a kit to a more private option when:
- The questions reference your school, class or students by name.
- The kit is a work in progress you are not ready to share.
- The content is an assessment you do not want circulating before the test.
Public kits, on the other hand, are how the community helps itself. If you built a brilliant set on the water cycle, making it public lets thousands of teachers benefit — and lets you benefit from theirs in return, as our guide to the best Gimkit kits in the library shows. Many teachers keep assessments private and review games public, which is a sensible default split.
Whatever you choose, review privacy when you duplicate: copies inherit settings, and it is easy to accidentally publish a private assessment’s twin.
share a gimkit kit
When you share a gimkit kit with a colleague, you are really sharing your prep time — the most generous gift in a school. Shared kits let a whole department run the same review while keeping classes, students and reports separate.
Sharing works best with a little etiquette:
- Share the master, edit your own copy — agree as a team that the shared kit stays stable, and personal tweaks happen on duplicates.
- Note the intended level — a quick “built for Grade 7, questions 1–10 are warm-ups” saves your colleague a preview session.
- Share after play-testing — a kit that has survived one live class is worth ten untested ones.
Sharing is also a safety net. If you are absent, a substitute or covering teacher with access to your shared kits can run a meaningful lesson instead of a filler video, and your students keep their routine.
A department that shares well usually agrees on a couple of housekeeping rules. Name shared kits so their purpose is obvious to someone who did not write them, and keep the questions themselves to the standard your team would defend in front of a head of department — shared kits carry everyone’s reputation. When a colleague improves a shared kit, the improvement should flow back to the master copy rather than living in one person’s duplicate; otherwise versions quietly fork until nobody knows which is canonical. If the edit involves rewriting questions themselves, the craft guidance in our guide on how to add questions to Gimkit keeps everyone’s standard consistent.
delete a gimkit kit
Eventually every library needs a clear-out, and that is when you delete a gimkit kit for good. Deleting removes the kit from your library, so treat it as a deliberate, end-of-life decision rather than everyday tidying.
Before deleting, run this quick checklist:
- Is it truly obsolete? — tied to a dropped topic or an old textbook edition, with no questions worth rescuing.
- Should you duplicate first? — if even five questions might be useful elsewhere, copy the kit or move the questions before deleting.
- Is anyone else using it? — check with colleagues if the kit was shared with your department.
For everyday organisation, archiving-style habits beat deletion: rename old kits with the year, keep one “archive” mindset, and delete in a single end-of-term sweep rather than impulsively. That way nothing valuable vanishes in a busy moment.
Deleted something by accident? Check the official guidance right away — the Gimkit Help Center documents what can and cannot be recovered, and it is the authoritative word on account and library questions.
Keep your library working for you
Edit with the report open, duplicate before you experiment, set privacy deliberately, share generously, and delete rarely but decisively. Those five habits turn kit settings from housekeeping into a genuine teaching advantage — a library that is always current, always findable, and always ready for the next class through the door.
a quick settings audit for returning teachers
If you set up your kits a while ago, a two-minute audit of your gimkit kit settings is worthwhile, because classes change even when kits do not. The group you taught in September — shy, new, still learning the platform — is not the group you have now, and settings chosen for beginners can quietly cap a confident class. While you review, ask three questions of every kit you reuse: Is the language still right for this year’s readers? Is the collaboration setting helping or hosting off-task chat? And would you still choose this visibility if a colleague borrowed the kit tomorrow?
Keep a tiny note inside your planning documents recording which gimkit kit settings you chose for each kit and why. It feels bureaucratic for exactly one week — then the first time you revisit a kit in a new term, the note saves you from re-deciding everything from memory. Settings are small decisions, but they are decisions your students experience for forty minutes at a time. Treating them as recorded choices rather than forgotten defaults is a quiet marker of a professional toolkit.
settings for shared and borrowed devices
One more context deserves its own settings pass: shared-device classrooms. Where students rotate through a cart of laptops, lean toward shorter sessions, clearer endings and kits that tolerate a fresh login mid-flow; where devices go home, favour settings that assume interruption — resumable progress beats perfect pacing. Match the configuration to the hardware reality of your room, and the platform stops feeling fragile in exactly the environments that need it most.
revisit settings after every platform update
Platforms evolve, and options quietly appear, move or change their defaults. After any noticeable update, spend five minutes walking your favourite kits’ settings screens top to bottom. You will occasionally find a new capability worth adopting — and more often, you will catch a default that drifted away from a choice you made deliberately. Settings hygiene is unglamorous and entirely within your control, which is more than can be said for most of edtech.
frequently asked questions
Do edits affect a game that is already scheduled or assigned? Edits apply to the kit itself, so future plays and future assignment launches use the updated version. Results from games already played stay as they were — your reports remain a truthful record of what students actually faced.
Can I recover a deleted kit? Deletion should be treated as permanent, which is why this guide recommends duplicating anything with salvageable questions first. If you delete something in error, check the official Help Center immediately for the current position rather than assuming a restore exists.
If I duplicate a kit, do the copies share results? No — a duplicate is an independent kit with its own fresh history. Your original’s reports stay attached to the original, which is exactly why duplicating before a big experiment is so safe.
Should my kits be public or private by default? Keep assessments and anything naming your school or students private. Review games you are proud of can go public and help other teachers. When in doubt, start private — you can always open a kit up later.
