Pear Deck

GREAT NEWS!!

Pear Deck has given all MVSD teachers access to a Premium account for the remainder of this school year. All you have to do is go to peardeck.com and sign up with your MVSD Google account. For those of you that previously signed up with your work account, it will automatically be upgraded to the Premium account. Check your account settings to verify.

Pear Deck Overview

You may have recently heard that teachers in our District are using this app called Pear Deck to make their digital lessons much more interactive. Take a look at this video to see how Pear Deck works.

How to Lead a Student-Paced Lesson or Activity (1 min)

Student-Paced Lessons

Yes, there is a way to conduct a Pear Deck lesson with all students, at the same time, remotely (read below). But, if you want students to participate in a Pear Deck lesson, at their own pace, you can do so by assigning a student-paced lesson.

For Users Already Familiar with Pear Deck

'How to Remotely Run a Pear Deck'

For those of you willing to learn how to use Pear Deck remotely, here's an excellent article called Keeping Classrooms Connected with Pear Deck. It goes over the steps on how to open a separate window to start your presentation, then go back to your conference call (Zoom or Google Meet) to share your screen. These two steps are what's required to be able to run a synchronous Pear Deck session remotely.

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Pear Deck Quick Start Videos

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