Tools for Student Engagement

Peardeck

Use the Peardeck Addon for Slides to make your slides interactive. The is a quick instruction.

• 1. Install the Addon if you do not already have it.

  2. Click Addons in Slides and select Peardeck.

  3. Add interactive elements to your slides.

Edpuzzle

Edpuzzle lets you embed questions directly into a video. Students needs to answer the question before the video continues. It integrates directly with Google Classroom so once your students are enrolled in your classroom you can automatically link them to Edpuzzle classes.

• • Connect Edpuzzle to Google Classroom

Kahoot

• Kahoot is like a live trivia game but your questions can contain any content as well as images and videos. You can set up a challenge for your students to complete by a certain day and time. Students earn the most points by getting the correct answer in the least amount of time.

Quizlet

Quizlet allows you to create study sets or browse sets that were made by other teachers. Students can study terms and concepts in a variety of ways. You can also set up live games for students.

If your list of terms or concepts is in a Google Doc, you can copy it directly into Quizlet. If it is in a pdf file, you can open the pdf in Google Docs and copy from there.

Socrative

Socrative is similar to Kahoot and Quizlet but you can create classroom and student logins to track student progress.