Successfully run a virtual or hybrid bingo game for your classroom, keeping students engaged and learning. Practical tips for setup, calling, and managing different group sizes.
Transitioning classroom activities to a virtual or hybrid setting can be challenging, but interactive games like bingo bridge the physical distance and keep students present. This guide covers how to run a bingo game with BingoAI when your class is fully remote, or split between the room and the screen.
Card generation is the easy part. The planning that matters is how the cards reach students and how you keep everyone on the same call.
1. Build the card. Pick a ready-made theme from the theme library, or switch to My Own Words and paste your own list — this week's vocabulary, the terms from Chapter 7, the elements you're reviewing. A 5×5 card shows 24 squares plus the free space, so a pool of 32 or 48 words gives every card a genuinely different draw.
2. Choose your grid. 3×3 for younger students or a short warm-up, 4×4 for a solid ten-minute round, 5×5 for a full review session.
3. Generate the set. Open Print Options and set the card count. Every card is shuffled from the same pool, so no two students get the same arrangement. The free plan prints 4 cards at a time; larger classes need a Pro plan, which goes up to 1,000.
4. Download the PDF. BingoAI produces a single print-ready PDF — cards, and optionally a Master Caller Sheet and an instructions page.
This is where virtual bingo usually stalls. The PDF contains every card in order, one per page (or two or four per page, if you chose a denser layout). You have two workable options: