Your class doesn't have to be boring! Neither does your first team meetup with the interns. Or Christmas with your cousins! Not when there's a social party games platform just one tap away. And trust us, it's good! So much so that many have told us Banto is "[t]he only place to party."
Educators
After nearly a decade of short-form video content influencing the psychology of both students and young adults worldwide, teachers will need to adapt beyond tools that worked a decade before. This involves moving beyond the traditional edtech gamification sphere of the 2010s and 2020s. The two icons for those two decades being Kahoot and Blooket, respectively.
You may have noticed that after a while, the stale trivia games have become even more stale over time. Why not shift yourself to the 2030s, where you have access to a variety of options? Whether it's allowing Socratic debates with HotTakes, drawing games for geography review sessions with QuickDraw, or even having an external ecosystem that allows students to learn about trading and bartering and encourages in-person communication, Banto offers all of these things.
How You'll Be Able to Use Banto
Instead of traditional worksheets (yuck! disgusting!) teachers can rely on Banto for custom trivia games covering their curriculum. Through Banto, your students become Bantonians competing individually or in teams, earning XP while reviewing material for upcoming tests.
Expanding on those trivia games, Banto can provide language arts teachers with a variety of other games that relate to word definition games, synonym challenges, and grammar quizzes that turn learning into friendly competition. That's already 10x better than Kahoot!
Are you a history teacher? There's a lot of different takes you can have students take with our unique game HotTakes! Through it, you can spark discussions about historical events, encouraging your class to defend different perspectives and think critically without complaining it's a Socratic Seminar because it definitely won't feel like one.
As Bill Nye the Science Guy says. Science Rules! Before hands-on experiments, you can run or share safety quizzes and concept review games. Now they'll never run to the eye flushing station again!
Why We've Done it This Way
Unlike platforms designed primarily for assessment, Banto focuses on engagement first. Why do we do this? Because we believe that engagement maximizes learning above all else. And we know what works to get there. The daily rewards system keeps students coming back, while the trading marketplace adds an element that allows for arbitrage and encourages communication outside the classroom.
Corporate America
Remote and hybrid work environments make it harder to build relationships between team members. Covid has worsened this epidemic, with people feeling lonelier than ever. Traditional icebreakers often feel forced, and many virtual team-building activities lack genuine engagement. And no, Jane, I don't want to be the fifteenth person to say my name and where I'm from when it's on my lanyard! It's been 30 minutes already!
How You Might Use Banto
Manage the cool way with your stand-up desk and start those weekly meetings with quick 5-minute trivia rounds about company culture or co-workers' tea to get everyone comfortable and talking. Or HotTakes if you're really harsh on a Monday.
Let's face it. Complaince. Ain't. Fun. Sorry! HR, we love you. That's why you should use Banto to create custom games around compliance training, company policies, and professional development topics. The less your co-workers snooze, the more they'll like you!
Companies host monthly tournaments where different departments compete in various games, helping employees from different areas of the business get to know each other.
New employee orientation includes Banto sessions where recent hires can learn about company culture while playing games with their new colleagues.
The Professional Advantage
Unlike Blooket, which is too kiddish, or Kahoot, which is too corporate, we've struck the best balance between fun and awesome and cool but not corporate. More than that, our variety of game types accommodates different personality types and comfort levels.
Students
It's Friday night. Your friends are coming over. You need a game. But you're probably broke. Let's face it. Those $20 on a Jackbox game can go toward more packs of Red Bull. Let' see...we know you can't Kahoot forever. Blooket is not the right thing for a couch game, either. Hm. Maybe Banto!
How You'll Use Banto
Resident advisors of UT Austin, UIUC, UCLA, wherever! Use Banto to organize free weekly game nights where your students can drop in and out of various games. Keep it light. Keep it fun. Keep it Banto.
Hate studying and like studying with your friends and getting nothing done? Welp, get more nothingness done by playing Banto anyway in the library! Who cares?
Your lecture can last only so long before your members start snoozing. Use Banto after to play a QuickDraw game or trivia to see who remembers officers' names! (Probably 5 people!)
Content Creators & Discord Mods
Content creators! Discord moderators/mods/owners! Nobody wants to hear you rambling the entire session. Interact with your audience! Banto supports massive audiences, so you can interact with them. You don't build actual communities with a yapfest. And we know you don't want to lose your subscriptions!
How You'll Use Banto
Streaming? Just host games where viewers can participate directly. During the session, you can yell out their strange responses.