Get Engaged with Nearpod!
Teacher Preparation
- FREE teacher account
- Prep time - 15-30 mins (depending on the number of questions and content)
- Hundreds of existing lessons
Features/Perks
- Easy to create teacher account (FREE!)
- No student accounts to create
- Allows for intimate conversations/dialogue by removing the teacher as the presenter in the front of the room
- Teacher controls flow/pace
- Can import existing Powerpoint presentations, PDFs
- Existing lessons bank (Some FREE, many paid)
- Can create within the Nearpod website
- Content options: Text, Images, Audio, Video (must be downloaded on your device)
- Embedded formative assessments/activities
- Activity Options: open-ended, poll, quiz, draw it
- Real-time, Instant feedback/analytics
- Share feedback/analytics results with students
- Easy to download/export analytics
- Sharing Options: email, social media, link (try Google Tone!)
- Impromptu sharing of website or open-ended question while in a presentation
- Nearpod - Chrome App (links to nearpod.com)
- Nearpodize this! - Chrome Extension (easily transform any Google Slides Presentation into a Nearpod Presentation)
"Gold" Account
- $10/month per teacher
- Includes all FREE account features as well as the ones listed below:
- Nearpod Homework - Teachers can assign Pods to students to complete on their own (Snow Days anyone?)
- Ability to embed YouTube videos, web content
- Content options: "Field Trip", PDF Viewer, Live Twitter Stream
- Activity Options: Fill in the Blank, Matching Pairs
- Impromptu sharing of draw it, slide and true/false questions while in a presentation