Build Your Online Classroom

Nearpod and Pear Deck are comprehensive tools that help you organize all components of your lessons in a single platform. They include the features of many tools designed for a special purpose as mentioned in the previous sections:

Nearpod

With Nearpod, you can transform your own lesson documents into interactive online lessons by adding content like virtual reality and simulations, or activities such as quiz, open poll, and collaboration board. Nearpod provides a wide-variety of ready-made resources in its library. For a quick review of how to use Nearpod, you can check here. 

 

Content options in Nearpod

 

Activity types in Nearpod

 
Pear Deck

You can reach a wide range of interactivity elements (e.g. simulations appropriate for the use of different disciplines) in Pear Deck without a need for importing content from other resources. You can integrate Pear Deck in Google Slides. It also provides many ready-made templates of interactive Powerpoint presentations categorized according to their aims, or disciplines. For a quick review of comprehensive features of Pear Deck, you can check here.

 

Template examples from Pear Deck

 

 

Teacher and student screens from a Mathematics lesson prepared in Pear Deck. A teacher can see the student responses as soon as students submit.