Tuesday, February 25, 2014

Tech Tip Tuesday - Nearpod What?




  • An online interactive student response system
  • An online tool that will allow your audience to have access to your presentation on their device.
  • Any device can access it.
  • Can be used as an exit ticket, quiz or poll.
  • Teacher controls the pace of the presentation.
  • Students do not need an account, they just need to join it with the access code from the teacher.
  • Teacher can see who is logged into the session.
  • Teacher can produce reports on student’s responses
  • Presentations are only active for 7 days.
  • Under the free account, you are allowed to have up to 40 students.

*FIRST and LAST slide MUST be Nearpod informational slides - Nearpod recently adjusted this setting and does not require the informational slides to be first and last. They can be in any order.

Types of Slides to Add:
  • Content - Slides, Custom Slides, Video, Audio, Slideshow, PDF Viewer, Twitter Feed
  • Add Web Content - upgrade feature
  • Add Activity - Open Ended Questions, Quiz, Poll, Draw it

Can upload many file types:
  • PDF
  • PPT
  • Videos:  MP4, MOV, FLV, OGV, AVI, MPG
  • Pictures:  JPEG, PNG

Presentation must be published to be able to share it.
Be sure you preview the presentation first before you publish it.
Presentations are only active for 7 days.