How to Use Nearpod

For all subjects

 Warm-Up

What are some of you favorite ways to engage

every learner and differentiate your lessons?
What it is:
Nearpod is an educational tool that uses
interactive tools, resources, and content
that teachers need … all in one place.
 What Can You Do With Nearpod?
● All In One Lesson:
○ Presentation Slides ○ Virtual Reality Exploration with
○ Polls embedded readings and questions

○ Fill In The Blank (Vocab) ○ Articles to annotate

○ Free Write/Open Ended Questions ○ Traditional Quiz

○ Vocab Matching Game ○ Time to Climb Quiz (competition

quiz)
○ Video Presentation with questions
embedded ○ AND MORE!
 There are two ways to launch a slide-based
lesson
Live Lesson Option: Student Paced Option:
Teachers share a live Share a lesson code for
session, students enter a student’s to complete at
code, and the lesson is their own time and pace, in
synced to all devices. This order to create a more
is perfect for running a flexible and equitable
lesson with a video remote teaching
conferencing solution. experience.
 You can use our editable premade lessons
Choose from a wide range of
premade and editable lessons,
activities, and videos!
Save them to your nearpod
library.
You can use them as is or
customize any of these
lessons to fit your
classroom/students needs.
 Use Nearpod with Google
Nearpod merges with your
favorite Google tools —
Classroom, Slides, Drive
and more. Just add the
Nearpod Extension to your
Google Suite.
 Exploring Some Of The Features:

Draw It- Great for graphing, maps, Collaborative Boards- Hold

charts, and more. classwide discussions
 Exploring Some Of The Features:
Time To Climb- Fun way to prep for Create Virtual Reality Field Trips
exams, review, check for understanding with embedded articles and videos!
and more. (more fun than kahoot!)
 How To Get Started

To search for premade lessons: To create your own:

What Next? (premade)
What Next? (create your own)
How To Grade/Gain Data From Nearpod

● Each session is recorded and can

be graded simply by going
through your Reports and
clicking on the questions, or by
student.
Accessibility and Differentiation

● Subtitles can be used for all videos

● For articles, different reading levels can be used, as well as formation of
questioning can be edited/created
● Lessons can be set to “student paced” allowing for students to move through
the course of the lesson at a rate that is easy and comfortable for them to best
learn
● SEL checks can be placed along the way to check for understanding of all
types