Nearpod: Interactive Classroom Engagement Tool for Teachers

Nearpod enables teachers to create interactive lessons, engage every student, and receive real-time input during the lesson.

### Enhancing Classroom Engagement with Nearpod: A Comprehensive Overview
* 📱 Nearpod is an interactive teaching platform that allows teachers to share presentations directly to student devices, enabling **real-time engagement and feedback**.
* 🔒 Teachers can sign up for Nearpod as a teacher and create interactive lessons using various content types such as **slides, videos, activities, and quizzes**.
* 📚 The platform offers a range of interactive activities, including **open-ended questions, matching pairs, quizzes, polls, and drawing tasks**.
* 💻 Teachers can monitor student progress, view individual responses, and **share student work with the whole class for discussion**.
* 🔢 The free account has a **100MB storage limit** and allows up to **40 students per lesson**, with premium plans offering **increased storage and student capacity**.
* 🎓 Nearpod can be used for **in-person, online, or hybrid teaching**, making it a **versatile tool for enhancing classroom engagement**.
* 🧠 Teachers can create interactive lessons on various subjects, **customize activities**, and access **pre-made lessons to save time**.
* 👩 Nearpod is praised for its ability to **keep all students engaged**, provide **instant feedback**, and create a **more interactive and inclusive learning environment**.

make your lessons incredibly interactive and have every single student engaged. That's what Nearpod is all about. In today's video, I'm going to walk you through Nearpod - what you can do, what the limitations are, and why you should check it out today. So let's just get started. Now, if you're brand new to Nearpod, the first thing you'll have to do is click on Sign Up. I'm going to sign up and indicate that I'm a teacher. So, we're going to select Teacher. Then, I can choose which way I would like to sign up. Now, I'm going to select Sign Up with Google just to make things easy. But you can choose any of the other platforms or manually fill in your name and email address. Okay, good, we're in. Now, you're probably wondering, what is Nearpod? Well, Nearpod is a way for you to make your lessons interactive and share a slideshow with individual student devices. You can control which slide is shown, and you can also get some input from your students during that lesson. So let's

have a look at a demo. Here is an example of what a Nearpod lesson could or would look like. So, on the left-hand side, we have our teacher's device. On the right-hand side, you will see the student's device. The teacher's device will display a code, and then all students will use that code to join the lesson. So, as a student, let's go ahead and join that lesson now. Remember, student is on the right-hand side and the teacher on the left. Now, the teacher has their first slide ready, and as it loads on the student's device, all the students see it on their individual devices. This can be used for online teaching, hybrid teaching, in-class teaching. It's a great way of keeping everyone engaged and of making sure that whatever is displayed on your main screen is accessible to all students. Again, you can see that code is still shown at the top, and I can now progress through my slideshow. So, when I go to the next slide, it automatically turns the slide for our students. We have our lesson objectives. I can introduce

the lesson. My students can read it. Those that may not be able to access that big whiteboard at the front, they can still read it on their devices. As I progress, I've now got a question. It's an open-ended question, as you can see on the right-hand side, that I'm asking my students. Now, what is something you already know about our solar system? And then they can start entering their answers. So let's just say, I know that planets are amazing. The sun is at the center of our solar system. Now, as our students are answering and submitting answers, the teacher will see that this student has just submitted an answer. The teacher can then open up that answer, read it, and let's say that I think this is an amazing answer, or I would like to discuss this answer in class. Well, I can click on share. As soon as I've clicked on share, everybody sees what that student has answered. We can discuss it, we can talk about the answer, we can ask the students for more clarification, anything we can think of can be done.

simply using the built-in functionality. I can then click on unshare, and it no longer shows on student devices. They can continue and answer the question. If you have multiple students, you will see them all show up right here on that teacher device, and you will also see the total participation percentage. Let's go ahead and open up the next slide. Now, because now we have an activity slide, this is a matching pairs activity. They have 30 seconds, and as soon as I click on start, the game will begin. So let's click on start. Three, two, one. Okay, so now we have to use the pictures to match it with the words that define them. Let's close the instructions and get started. We're going to click on star. Okay, which of these is a star? Well, the sun is definitely a star. Then we've got Pluto, no longer defined as a planet. So we're going to add dwarf planet to that one. Excellent, that's correct. Now let's make a mistake. Okay, we've got Saturn. Saturn is... Oh, maybe it's a

terrestrial planet. Okay, that was wrong, clearly wrong. So let's try that again. Mercury is the planet and Saturn is a gas giant. Great! Oh, time's up. We're now going to have to wait for our teacher to progress. Now here we can see four out of four matches, how many tries they had, and then when we're ready, we can go on to the next one. Now we have to label the planets in this diagram, and it's not a timed activity, so the students now have a chance to write on their screen. So, if you have touch-enabled devices, this is perfect. We are talking iPads, tablets, Chromebooks, anything with a touch-enabled screen. If they do not have that, so let's say that, okay, writing on this screen is a bit, oh, it's a bit difficult, they can always click on text and then choose this text box to enter their answers. So, if this is Mercury, then we have Venus. They can always just simply use text boxes instead of touch-enabled devices. Okay, so let's say that, I don't

have all the answers. I've just submitted this. I can still edit my answers because we set that up in our settings. But the teacher can see everyone's work right here on their screen. They can click on it for a larger view. And again, they can share it with everyone else in the class, discuss their answers, and then unshare that. Let's move on to the next question type. Here we have some key points. Okay, we've got a regular slide. Again, we're going to discuss some key points and then immediately after those key points, a quiz, a follow-up quiz, three questions. Okay, let's see. We have true or false. Mars is further from the sun. Okay, that's true. So we're going to just click on true. Next, how many days does it take for the Earth to revolve? Well, that's 360. Let's say that is four years. Let's just answer this one incorrectly. Next, which of the following is not a planet? Well, let's say that the moon is not a planet. So we have another correct

answer and then we'll just wait. Now our teacher can say, Okay, maybe have another look at that second question, because our teacher immediately sees what the student answered. So here we can see we had option C, here D, A, and so they had two out of three correct. And again, they can click on share, and again, they can share those class results with everyone in the class. Another type that we can use in the free account is the polls. So here, How confident do we feel in our ability to describe our solar system? Well, we can say that we are not as confident as we would like to be. Click on submit, and then the teacher is immediately notified of that and can again share that, say, Okay, looks like we're not feeling too confident here. Let's revisit this topic. Let's exit the preview. And that, in a nutshell, is what you can do with Nearpod free. Now, how does this work? What we can create our lessons here at the bottom. When I click on create a lesson, I will get the option of adding content.

and activity. So, let's go ahead and do that. We're going to add some content. Do we want to add some slides? Do we want to add the classic slides type? Do we want to add a video, web content, and any of these other options? We can also go to activities. And then here we see those activities. We have the time to climb activity, open-ended questions, matching pairs, if you as you saw in the example, a quiz. We can add in the Flipgrid. This is importing a Flipgrid topic to collect video answers. We can draw it, collaborate on boards, have polls, fill in the blanks, or a memory test. Let's go ahead and do a draw it activity. We're going to click on draw it. And let's set up the activity. Here, we're going to add the instructions. Please draw an image of our solar system. Okay, do we want to add a timer or not? In this case, I'm not going to add a timer. I can also add images, audio, or other media. So, let's go ahead and click on that. I'm

going to add in an image, and we're going to search for an artist. Let's go ahead and search for an icon that indicates it's a drawing. There we go. Let's save that in. Now, one thing I really like about Nearpod is the suggestions you get. So, here on the right-hand side, you'll see this arrow, and when I open this up, you'll see examples of other lessons that have been created using this question type. So, for example, I can see here that there are other droid activities, and you can see here Nearpod already made an activity on the solar system. So, I can click on that, replace what I have with what they've created, complete the diagram, and there we have our activity. Now, this one was taken from the example, but as you can see, this can save you a lot of time. Once you're ready, you can click on the save button in the bottom right corner. This will save your lesson. That lesson is now stored. That first slide is now part of your lesson. You can title your

lesson here at the top, it still says untitled lesson demo lesson free, and you can also see how much space this lesson is taking up. Now remember, free accounts have access to a hundred megabytes of space or content that they can store within Nearpod. They also have access to all the activities you've seen in this demonstration and the question types you've seen here. A follow-up video will be made on the premium features that you have within Nearpod. Now, because it's a free account, in addition to the 100 megabytes limitation, you are limited to 40 students per lesson. Should be more than enough for your average classroom, however, if you are in a larger classroom, then one of the premium plans will be needed as the next level up will give you access to 75 students. And then as you move up the different premium plans, you get access to more students, but more on that in a follow-up video. Now, if you've used Nearpod before or if you're excited about trying it out, there will be a link in that description below. Make

sure, you scroll down into the comment section as well. Let me know how are you going to use nearpod. Would you use nearpod? Do you enjoy using nearpod and what are some of the features you like best when using it in class? What are some of the ways that you've been able to do things with your students that were previously not possible and nearpod has made them possible? Thank you for watching my name is saty and i will see you in the next one.

Why you should use Nearpod FREE

Flipped Classroom Tutorials

Nearpod is a platform for creating interactive lessons and sharing them with students' devices.

It allows teachers to control the slideshow and receive input from students.

Nearpod is versatile and can be used for online, hybrid, or in-person teaching, keeping all students engaged.

Conducting Interactive Activities in a Virtual Classroom

Teachers can easily share and unshare activities with students using the built-in functionality.

The platform allows for tracking student participation and progress during the activities.

Students can use touch-enabled devices or text boxes to participate in the interactive exercises, catering to different technological capabilities.

Using Nearpod Free for Interactive Teaching

Nearpod Free allows for real-time student answer submission and editing, providing a platform for class-wide answer sharing and discussion.

It offers a variety of interactive features, including quizzes, polls, and the ability to create lessons with different types of content.

Nearpod offers various interactive options such as slides, videos, and activities like draw it, polls, and quizzes.

The platform provides suggestions and examples to help create engaging content quickly.

Users can easily add media and utilize pre-made activities to save time in lesson preparation.

Nearpod Free Account Limitations and Premium Features

Nearpod's free accounts are limited to 100MB of storage and 40 students per lesson.

Premium plans offer access to more students, with the next level providing access to 75 students.

Higher premium plans provide access to even more students and additional features.

If you've used Nearpod before or are interested in trying it, a link is provided for more information.