Nearpod Overview

EMILY KAVANAGH
Introduction

 Tool to create interactive lessons through presentations

 Contains
 Open-ended questions
 Game-like activities
 Quizzes
 Polls
 Presentation Slides
Open-ended Questions

 With this tool, you can

create questions for students
to answer in real-time
 You can use this to see what
students already know on a
topic, what areas they feel
are the most important, and
overall start discussions.
 Other students cannot see
individual answers
Open-ended questions

 As a teacher you can also choose to share a

student’s response to the classes devices
Activities

 With this tool, you can create games and

activities such as timed matching
 Teachers can use this as an engaging review tool
 Also shows teachers how many attempts it took
each participant to complete, so they can see
where individual or collective students are
struggling
Quizzes

 This tool allows students to answer typical quiz formatted

questions from their devices
 Teachers can use these as exit tickets or pop quizzes
 Students’ responses are recorded as they submit questions,
along with a graph to show the overall classes success rate
Polls
 This tool allows students to
answer poll questions
 Teachers can use this to
gain feedback on where
students feel they are
struggling or areas they
want more clarification on
Presentation Slides

 This tool simply allows you to

create slides that can contain
anything you wish to lecture on
 Teachers can use this in place of
Powerpoint or google slides
Conclusion

 Nearpod includes all of these functions and more with the goal of creating interactive and
engaging lessons for students
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