What is Nearpod
Nearpod is the go-to tool for interactive presentations and assessments. At the Nearpod website, teachers create their own multimedia presentations or use an extensive and growing library of pre-made offerings. Teachers launch the presentation and monitor progress either from the website or through the app. Using the Nearpod app on their devices, students input their names to access the content and submit responses.
Live and Formative Assessment
You can insert a ‘Quiz’ into your Nearpod presentation. As a teacher, you can create customized quizzes that can be used as assessment tools. The children are instructed to type in their name’s before engaging with a quiz. The teacher’s iPad is then faced with the ongoing progress of the class in an "easy to analyze" table. This assessment data can be read on the fly, while the children are engaged in the test. In other words, you can gain a good idea of the classes overall understanding within any given subject straight away.
How to Access
Silver Edition - FREE
This is Nearpod’s standard free edition – and it’s by no means basic! The Nearpod Silver Edition offers powerful functionalities to convert your existing presentations into interactive and engaging lessons. Seamlessly include our awesome interactive features such as polls, quizzes, open ended questions, and draw-it activities and launch a live presentation for up to 30 students at any one time. The Silver Edition also gives you up to 50MB of storage space. All of your reports are available as PDFs and you can share those reports by email.