Author’s note: This post is intended to help teachers make Digital Breakouts in Classic Google Sites. The New Google Sites has gone live. Please read my blog post about making Digital Breakouts in New Google Sites. Additionally, please read my post comparing the classic and new versions of Google Sites.
Digital Breakouts, the entirely online offshoot of the BreakoutEDU movement, are a great way to help students fall in love with problem-solving. I make and use them, as do my colleagues who have found innovative ways to incorporate them into instruction.
Recently, I have had colleagues and educators on social media tell me they would like to make digital breakouts but the task seems daunting. One colleague asked me to build a template website to help him get started.
So here it is – a Digital Breakout template website, a replicable Google Site template, and a Google Folder with template files. Makes copies of them and have at it! The website is a Digital Breakout itself. Go through it to see how they work.
The site demonstrates some great tools for digital breakouts: Google Forms with Quiz Mode enabled for feedback, Quizlet, EdPuzzle, and Thinglink.
Comment below or send me a tweet @edtechtom with questions.
All Digital Breakouts I make are inspired by the innovators behind BreakoutEDU, James Sanders and Mark Hammons, as well as by the creators of Digital BreakoutEDU, Justin Birckbichler and Mari Venturino.
Tom Mullaney 
This is AMAZING Tom! You are the bomb.com!!! 😀
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Nicki, You do it day in-day out for the kids. You’re the bomb.
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Love this Tom!! I’ll be sharing your post with some of our teachers at an upcoming institute day!
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Thank you, Katie! I’m honored you see fit to share.
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Tom, I am presenting Breakouts and throwing in a plug for digital breakouts at our regional tech fair on Friday, may I share your page please?
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Share it. Use it. I’m honored you see fit to do so!
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I was just at a regional meeting talking about digital breakouts and was asked if there were templates, so I am so excited about this!
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Definitely sharing this with my staff!
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This is a fantastic resource. Thank you!
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Tom – you’re the best! Thank you for this. I am already putting this to good use as I create my first digital breakout to teach research databases. Wish me luck!
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Thank you, Erin! Be sure to also check out my post about digital breakouts in new Google Sites.
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I’m an Instructional Coach helping an Algebra 2 teacher making a Digital Breakout using a Google Form, when we go to put the answer in on the original form–we have no way of writing the answers in math equation form. We have EquatlO installed, which allows students to write the functions for the answers, but we are struggling writing the answers for the answer key. Can anyone help–any ideas?
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Hi Kathi, thank you for your question. Equations are not going to be great as locks. However, could you have students solve for an equation and then crack the lock by typing the coefficient, for example? For math, you really want to have locks that refer to specific pieces of answers students generate. Does that make sense?
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