Nearpod Instructional Suite

Nearpod teachers can make "Rich, Flexible, Active Lessons":

interactive slides presentations, 
interactive videos,
and games & activities.

Teachers access 20+ formative assessment and dynamic media experiences
to make any classroom activity or lesson interactive.

However you create and deliver lessons, it’s in Nearpod! 

Teachers can enhance their teaching slides by adding 20+ formative assessment and dynamic media experiences to make any classroom activity or lesson interactive. 

Step 1:  Create your lesson

Create ａlesson from scratch

Step 2:  Add Interactive activities, assessments, videos

Edit Activites, Explore Activity Bank

Nearpod teachers can make interactive slides presentations,
interactive videos, and games & activities.

Teachers access 20+ formative assessment and dynamic media experiences 
to make any classroom activity or lesson interactive. 

+ Media

+ Activities

New! Quizzes

Quizzes are a new part of the Nearpod lesson experience that allows teachers to mix, match, and combine Nearpod’s formative activities and question types into a single streamlined assessment.

Teachers can add a timer, set the Quiz to automatically change over to student-paced mode during a live lesson, and gain an aggregate bird’s-eye view of their students’ understanding during the lesson. Read More

While Quizzes are a new feature, nothing has changed about editing individual activities inside of a Quiz. All activities work the same as they would on a regular activity slide.

Feature Specifications

Quizzes can include the following slide types: 

• • Multiple Choice (formerly Quiz) 
  • Draw It 
  • Fill in the Blank 
  • Time to Climb 
  • Drag & Drop 
  • Poll 
  • Matching Pairs 
  • Open-ended Question 
  • Algebra Tiles  
  • Base 10 Blocks 
  • Color Tiles  
  • Fraction Tiles  
  • Note: The feature formerly known as Quiz is now called Multiple Choice and still functions in the same capacity. 
    

That is, 2 activities cannot be included in Quizzes:   Memory Test, Collaborate Board.

AI Create is a tool for quickly generating high-quality multiple-choice questions based on a prompt, which teachers can add directly into Multiple Choice or Time to Climb activities.

Start by opening a new or existing Nearpod lesson and clicking AI Create on the right-hand side of the screen. Complete the sentence “Create questions about…” and click “Create questions.” AI Create will immediately craft 10 multiple-choice questions aligned with the request. Experiment and create!  

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3 useful features will be described below: 

1. Add Reference media to Nearpod acrtivity or formative assessment
2. Add audio to a static slide
3. Activate Microsoft Immersive Reader

Add Reference Media to a Nearpod activity or formative assessment

Reference Media is a Nearpod feature that allows teachers to add PDFs, web content, images, videos, or audio files to activities in Nearpod.  Students access this media for reference when responding to a question or activity. 

With Reference Media teachers can:

• Provide supports to scaffold and differentiate for student needs
• Save time and replace anchor charts and other references students typically use in the classroom
• Give media for students to respond to with links to articles, images, PDFs, or by sharing video and audio files

Add Audio to a Slide

You can add audio to a static Slide in your lesson.

As a teacher, you can read the text, provide speaking points or words of encouragement to keep students motivated, independent and feeling connected.

Use Microsoft Immersive Reader for text-to-speech, translation, and more 

Allow students to access support for text accommodations including text-to-speech, language translation, and more within a Nearpod lesson. Students can use Nearpod's integration with Microsoft Immersive Reader on most Nearpod activities and slides created with the Google Slides Add-On, Nearpod's new Slide Editor or imported as editable PowerPoint Slides.   Read More

Which Nearpod features are compatible with Immersive Reader?

Students can access Immersive Reader on the following Nearpod content and activities:

• • Open-Ended Question
  • Quiz
  • Draw It
  • Poll
  • Multiple Choice Question
  • Text on slides created with Nearpod's new Slide Editor
  • Text on slides created on slides for lessons made with the Google Slides add-on
  • Text on PowerPoint imported as editable PowerPoint slides

To get started, users must enable the feature in their profile >  lesson settings.  Enabling this feature will grant access to every student.

Teaching with Nearpod

See useful articles here on more ideas on delivering your teaching with the Nearpod lesson created,   .

Below are some of the highlights:  

• Tools to adjust learning in the moment: Teacher Dashboard during Live Lesson
  • Add activities on the fly
  • Launch a Whiteboard
  • Use Live Annotation
• Moving between two different lesson modes
• Live Teacher Feedback / Share with the class
• Live Manual Grading
• Student Reactions/ Raise  Hand
• Student Notes
  

Tools to adjust learning in the moment:  Teacher Dashboard during Live Lesson

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Moving between two different lesson modes

Live Participation Mode (Teacher control the pace of the lesson), Student-paced, and from Live to Student-paced.  Read more

Teachers select a group of slides or activities (e.g, from page 5 - 8) from within their Nearpod for Student-Paced work and can revert back to Live Participation anytime  (e.g to continue from page 9 onwards).

Live Teacher Feedback / Share with the class

Live Manual Grading

Manual Grading allows teachers to provide quick assessment feedback on student submissions during live and student-paced lessons. Teachers can grade student responses as Correct, Incomplete, or Incorrect. Manual grading is supported in Draw It, Drag & Drop, Math Manipulatives, and Open-Ended Question activities.    Read more

Student Reactions & Raise Hand Features

Student Notes

Nearpod's Student Notes feature allows students to take notes in a Nearpod lesson, video, or activity. Student Notes must be enabled by the teacher for students to access.

When enabled students take notes during the lesson and receive their notes with a copy of the slides, videos, and activities afterwards (via email, Google Drive or OneDrive).   Read more.

Co-Teaching

Nearpod Blog
https://nearpod.com/blog/

Nearpod updates

https://nearpod.com/blog/nearpod-updates/

Video tutorials

Nearpod How-to: teacher training videos

Click below to see the training videos
https://www.etchkshop.com/collections/nearpod

How many Nearpod license does the school need to buy?

Can multiple teachers use the same "shared" Nearpod login such as science@abcschool.edu?

Before your school decides on the number of license to subscribe to, please see the declaration below from the Nearpod Terms and Conditions> section 3>School accounts: 

Each license must be assigned to an individual teacher within the purchasing school using their school provided email address. Shared access to a license (e.g. scienceteachers@abcschool.com is not a permissible use and a violation of these Terms)

Download a PDF version of the following Features comparison table:
School Edition vs Free individual teacher account