Nearpod

Create Interactive Lessons: Engage students with interactive activities, polls, quizzes, and virtual field trips.

Monitor Student Progress: Get real-time insights into student understanding.

Easily Share with Google Classroom: Assign Nearpod lessons within Google Classroom.

Nearpod offers special program bundles that include lessons for the following content areas:

• 21st Century Readiness - Digital Citizenship, Social and Emotional Learning, College and Career Readiness and Financial Literacy

•  English Learners

• Math 

• Social Studies

Teachers can also create their own personal lessons either in Nearpod or by using the Nearpod Add-on for Google Slides (also allows you to convert existing Slides presentations).

Navigate to nearpod.com and log in with your district Google account.

Quick tour of the teacher dashboard 

Manage Lesson settings in Nearpod

Nearpod offers an extensive library of resources already made, and able to be edited, for a variety of grade levels and content areas. 

Reports and Data allows the teacher to access student responses once a session is over. The teacher can view individual student data or an entire class report. 

Viewing Reports and Student Data Printable directions  

Viewing reports: how to see online 

Nearpod has the ability to add video content that pauses the video at key points to ask the student to interact and respond before continuing the video (just like Edpuzzle) 

Here is a video and directions on how create a comprehension video assignment  

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There are two ways to launch a lesson via Google Classroom

1. • Live Lesson: The lesson moves for all students when the teacher changes the slide.

   • Student-Paced: Students can change the slides whenever they want, at their own pace

Streamline lesson creation! Import your existing resources (PDFs, images, PowerPoints) and enhance them with interactive Nearpod elements: VR Field Trips, Collaborate Boards, Quizzes, Polls, Matching Pairs, and Time to Climb. Alternatively, build lessons directly within Nearpod or Google Slides, seamlessly integrating these engaging activities.

Create a lesson in Nearpod printable doc

Create a lesson in Nearpod quick start video 

Cheat sheet for all of the Content and Activity options in Nearpod

Organizing your Folders

Creating Nearpod for student interaction 

Adding a Nearpod lesson to Google Classroom using a link from Nearpod 

Assigning a Nearpod using the Google Classroom add-on 

Use Nearpod lessons as whole instruction or just quick ones for an exit ticket; the Quick Launch feature is a great tool for this.

6 Ways to Use Student-Paced Lessons

**Note: If adding a website or video, you need to use the Web Content and Video Content slides from Nearpod. You CANNOT embed/link them as you normally would in Google Slides because they will not open, they will simply be text or a square image on the screen when you run the lesson. This applies to converted Slides presentations as well as Nearpod presentations.