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What is Nearpod?
What is Nearpod?
Nearpod is a website and digital tool that allows teachers to create slide-based lessons, quizzes, or homework that are interactive for students to engage with and learn from. The learning resources created has maximum learning potential as it covers all forms of learning whether using their device, or on a single screen. It can also be used in the classroom and remotely using the hybrid layout. It also has great tools for formative assessment that creates data outputs as percentages, graphs, or charts so the teacher can see the student's progress.
Nearpod is a website and digital tool that allows teachers to create slide-based lessons, quizzes, or homework that are interactive for students to engage with and learn from. The learning resources created has maximum learning potential as it covers all forms of learning whether using their device, or on a single screen. It can also be used in the classroom and remotely using the hybrid layout. It also has great tools for formative assessment that creates data outputs as percentages, graphs, or charts so the teacher can see the student's progress.
How Does it Work?
How Does it Work?
Nearpod works by giving you full access to create educational materials with the use of slide based lessons. It allows you to configure your lesson to include information, practices, activities, and assessment all in one place.
Nearpod works by giving you full access to create educational materials with the use of slide based lessons. It allows you to configure your lesson to include information, practices, activities, and assessment all in one place.
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Features
Features
There are many features that Nearpod has to allow you to engage better in your classroom or remotely. This infograph shows you the main things you can create with the website or app.
Content and Activities
Content and Activities
In Nearpod, teachers can make interactive slides presentations, interactive videos, and games & activities. Teachers access 20+ formative assessment and dynamic media experiences to make any classroom activity or lesson interactive.
In Nearpod, teachers can make interactive slides presentations, interactive videos, and games & activities. Teachers access 20+ formative assessment and dynamic media experiences to make any classroom activity or lesson interactive.
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Watch the video and then answer the question below.
Presentation Modes
Presentation Modes
There are two presentation modes that you can use with Nearpod to host your lesson whether in class, remote, or hybrid.
There are two presentation modes that you can use with Nearpod to host your lesson whether in class, remote, or hybrid.
Live Participation
Live Participation
With Live Participation lessons the students, through Zoom or in person, can type the code into the Nearpod homepage or click the link embedded so they can follow along with the lesson on their own laptops.
Student-Paced
Student-Paced
With a Student-Paced lessons the students can go through the lesson alone or with a partner at their own pace. You can set how long the lesson is up or require responses. This is helpful for independent work or homework.
Assessments and Reports
Assessments and Reports
Post-session reports allow teachers to access student responses from any Nearpod once the lesson, video, or activity is over. Reports contain student responses from Live, Student-Paced, or Live to Student-Paced sessions. Reports can be downloaded as a PDF or CSV.
Integration
Integration
Nearpod is built to work well with lots of pre-existing tools, such as Google Slides, Microsoft PowerPoint, and YouTube. Teachers can easily import media to make a lesson quickly and simply using already existing resources.
Find educational videos and add questions to them directly on the Nearpod platform.
Add your lesson link or give homework within the Nearpod platform.
Create a zoom link within the platform for easier navigation for remote students.
Work within Google Slides and add content and activities through the Nearpod add-on
Creating a Presentation
Creating a Presentation
1. Login to your Nearpod account, the main page will show the My Library page, click "Create", then select "Lesson".
2. If you would like to upload a presentation from PowerPoint, Google Slides, PDF, or something else you can upload them by dragging the file to the page or click the "Upload Files" on the screen.
3. Click on the pencil in the top left to name your lesson, and if you'd like, provide the subject and grade. Press submit to save your lesson details.
4. To start adding slides, activities, other content to your lesson, click "Add Content & Activities".
You can choose from many activities, media, and content. To see the complete list of features go to the features list.
5. If you would like to look at the presentation at any time while working, select the slide you'd like to preview and click on the "Preview" button. You can also view the entire presentation this way as well. When complete push Save & Exit.
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