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Overview

Three views are available for each Pear Deck session: the private teacher dashboard view, the projector view, and the student view, which students get when they join your session.

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You can review and assess the work of your pupils by using the Dashboard, which displays their names next to their responses.

You can use the Dashboard to provide your students with personalised feedback, highlight or conceal comments, and more. 

It gives you additional knowledge about how your kids are doing both in and outside of the classroom! The Teacher Dashboard is a Premium Feature, so please be aware of it.

How to open the Dashboard

When you begin a new presentation, you can access the Dashboard from your Navigation Bar or Sessions menu:

• Open the Pear Deck sidebar in Google Slides or PowerPoint Online and select the green "Start Lesson" button to launch a new presentation. Decide between Instructor and Student Paced modes.

• If you select Instructor-Paced, the Projector View with Join Instructions automatically opens. Open Teacher Dashboard by clicking. Students' screens sync with your screen on the projector and dashboard when you are teaching at an instructor-paced pace.

• If you select Student-Paced Mode, the Dashboard View automatically launches, and you can start viewing it by simply closing the modal window.

• On any slide, click the More Actions (three-dot) Menu link in the Navigation Bar.

• From the Sessions menu, select Dashboard. The suggested method for reviewing responses at any time after the Session has completed is in this manner.

How to use the Teacher Dashboard

• On the left side of the screen is the Slide Drawer. On the right side is the projector preview.

• Use the navigation bar to move between slides, display student responses in the projector view, lock student responses, and add new prompt slides to sessions. Your scrolling activity remains secret because the Projector View and the Dashboard do not sync. However, you can click or tab on a response in the Dashboard to make it stand out in the Projector View.

• Student Response Preview: You can see students' real-time responses as soon as they start answering your question. To see if someone is perplexed or lost, go through the comments. Without displaying answers on the projector, you can complete all of this in private.

• Student Roster: To view a list of the students who have joined your session, invite a Google Classroom class if you have classroom integration, or remove a student from the session, click the blue roster icon.

• Response Layout: Depending on the interactive response style of the slide, the layout can be changed. One answer can be scrolled through at a time using the List layout, thumbnails of the responses can be seen using the Grid layout, and all responses can be seen with the same backdrop image when using the Overlaid layout.

• teacher feedback: Use the feedback button to leave a comment for a student. The Student View receives comments from the students themselves.

• You can show or don't show responses in the projector view. The Student View or the Student Experience are unaffected by these actions.

A. To highlight a response on the Projector View, click the star next to a person's name. This is applicable to many responses.

B. To hide a response from the Projector View and prevent the class from seeing it, click on the More actions (three-dot) icon. When a response is concealed, it turns grey in the Dashboard. Teachers are unable to completely remove student answers from Pear Deck.

• Controls for the Slide Navigation Bar

1. Use the slide arrows to advance through the presentation's slides using the navigation buttons. It syncs with the projector view.

2. Notes: Open your Google Slides speaker notes.

3. Responses can be displayed or hidden in the Projector View, where they are by default anonymous.

4. Lock: Press this button just once to prevent pupils from making any modifications by locking their screens.

5. To establish a countdown timer so students know how long they have to finish answering, click and hold the "Lock Timer" button. All student screens will lock after the countdown expires. Between 30 seconds, 1 minute, and 3 minutes are your options.

6. The button labelled "Add a New Prompt" can be used to include a new prompt in your presentation. To capitalise on a teaching opportunity, you can ask the same question again, perhaps with a different interactive response type, or you might include a fresh interactive slide. Study up on New Prompts.

7. Go to your More Actions menu (three dots) to do further actions like ending your session or activating Student-Paced Mode.

8. END: To end the session, click this button.

Customize the Dashboard

Both the response layout and sorting are customizable.

• Modify the response format

• There are typically 3 layout options for answer types: List view, Grid view, and Overlay. There are several restrictions with this (for example, text responses cannot be overlaid). On a drawing slide, the three layouts appear as follows. No student names are visible because these pictures were taken from the projector view.

• view a list

• a grid view

• view in combination

• Organize responses

To sort answers, use the Sort by filter at the Dashboard's top.

• Response time

• student names are listed alphabetically by first name.

• Students can write several responses on a text response question, which is useful for brainstorming or adding more ideas. By default, those responses will appear in the order that they were sent. The answer will always be accompanied by a small hint in the corner if a student has provided several answers. Clicking on it takes you to the other response.

Scroll the Projector View from the Dashboard

Your scrolling motion is kept private because scrolling in the Dashboard does not synchronise with the Projector View. However, you can click or tab on a response in the Dashboard to make it stand out in the Projector View.