Pear Deck

Description:

• Pear Deck is an educational technology company that provides a platform for interactive classroom presentations. 

• It allows teachers to create engaging presentations with interactive questions, polls, quizzes, and other activities to enhance student participation and comprehension. 

• With Pear Deck, teachers can also receive real-time feedback from students, track student responses, and customize presentations to suit their lesson plans. 

Teacher accounts:

1. 1. Teachers can create their own accounts by using the Google sign in option and their district email address

      • https://app.peardeck.com/home

      • In order to add interactive features in presentations for students, Teachers are encouraged to add the google apps extension called Pear Deck for Google Slides

   2. Create a Pear Deck Assignment in Canvas 

      • Directions with screenshots: Canvas Integration for Teachers and Students

      • Have an interactive Pear Deck for Google Slides file ready to present. 

      • Open your course in Canvas.

      • In a Module Click + Assignment.

      • In the New Assignment, Scroll down to Submission Type.

      • Next to Submission Type, open the drop-down menu and select External Tool. 

      • In the list of External Tools, click Pear Deck and then click Select.

      • When you finish customizing your assignment, scroll to the bottom of the page and click Save and Publish.

      • Note: The first time you present a Pear Deck file in Canvas, you will be prompted to sign in to Pear Deck. 

      • Click Select a file from Drive to locate your presentation. 

      • Choose your Lesson Mode. One of the Presenter Views opens for you in Canvas depending on the mode you select:

        • Student-Paced Lessons (asynchronous, recommended for this integration): The private Dashboard View opens so you can see students’ names next to their responses in real time. When students open this assignment, they get navigation controls to scroll through the slides and respond to interactive questions. This mode also allows students to click Submit Work at the end of the assignment to officially close it.

        • Instructor-Paced Mode (synchronous): The Projector View opens and responses are anonymous by default. The Student View syncs to your current slide, so you need to advance the slides for students to see them and respond to interactive questions.

   3. Explore Key Pear Deck interactive templates/features used by teachers and students:

      • • The six Interactive Question Types

        • How to Create a New Pear Deck Lesson

        • Student Paced Lessons

        • Add Audio Recordings to your Slides

        • Immersive Reader Integration

        • Suggest a document

   4. Templates can be added directly from inside the Google Slides Add-on sidebar.

Templates and Example Decks can be viewed and copied from the Pear Deck Orchard.
Download the templates.

Student accounts:

• Students can access Pear Deck  by clicking on an assignment created in Canvas.

  1. Direct Students  to Open Canvas.

  2. Go to Courses.

  3. Select the assignment the teacher created.

  4. Scroll through the slides and respond to interactive questions. 

     • Responses are saved as usual in the teacher’s Pear Deck Home Sessions regardless of Session Mode.

  5. If the Session is in Student-Paced Mode, select Submit Work on the final slide to turn in and close the assignment.

Resources:

• Pear Deck technical support library

Support:

• Email Carolyn Husa chusa@goguardian.com for Peardeck account support

• District teachers will need  to request support from: digitalresources@smuhsd.org

Licensing:

• Licensing information, what sites are available to be licensed

Student Data Privacy Agreement: 

• Completed