Nearpod is a cross-platform, student engagement platform, that captivates your students with interactive activities, connecting them through collaborative discussions, and gain instant insight into student learning through formative assessments on Nearpod.

Reasons why teachers should use?

• Nearpod, at its core, is a tool for instruction and assessment. The best part of Nearpod is that it facilitates the ability for teachers to no longer feel tied to the display or chalkboard at the front of their lecture room. Educators can display push content and assess the whole class while standing beside the students who most need their attention academically or behaviourally.
• Nearpod also helps to empower student voices by allowing them to respond without feeling the pressure of the whole class watching them while still being immersive and engaging enough to draw in reluctant students.
• Lecturers can have as much control or allow as much independence as they wish to give, which instils onto the students a sense of ownership of their education, which can often lead to full student participation.

Nearpod’s Top Features?

•  Use Present Resources–Teachers can build upon content they already have invested hours into developing by using the import feature of a PDF saved from any PowerPoint, KeyNote or SMART Notebook as the basis for a Nearpod presentation.
•  Immediate Feedback-Teachers receive immediate feedback on what students have learnt by the Poll, Quiz or Open ended question feature. As students submit their results the teacher can see immediately what has been understood on an individual level.
• Audio/Video – can add audio & video directly from BBC Worldwide Video, your storage drive (Dropbox, Google Drive, etc.), from your computer, or use the built-in YouTube search. What’s even better is that the educator can have the option, when presenting, to play the video on each student device or their own device only if there is a lack of headphones.