Access Nearpod

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Summary	Make interactive and engaging presentations for your classes
Author	Maintained by Matthijs van Mierlo
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Status	Up-to-date for the 2024-2025 school year.

What is Nearpod?

Nearpod is a tools to create interactive and dynamic presentations. With Nearpod, you can easily create formative questions/quizzes to test student understanding throughout a lesson, gather feedback, or do daily check-ins with your class. At its core, Nearpod still allows you to make slides and presentations, but it also does so much more! Read below for how you can get started using Nearpod.

Log in to Nearpod

1. Go to https://nearpod.com/
2. Click on Log in on the top right of the screen
3. Click on Sign in with Google
4. Enter your RCS email and passphrase

Quick Tutorials

• Nearpod - Create Lesson
• Nearpod - Create Presentation from Google Slides
• Nearpod - Present, Controls, and Statistics

Create a lesson, video or activity

There are many different ways to use Nearpod! To create a lesson, video, or activity do the following:

1. Click on My Lessons on the left hand side of the window
2. Click on Create and choose one of the following options
   • Lesson - combine slides, content, and interactivity activities into one engaging lesson
   • Video - combine videos with built-in questions to test understanding throughout the video
   • Activity - engage quickly with a popular activity (no slides)

For more Nearpod resources, check out these Getting Started Videos, or check out Nearpod's YouTube Channel!

Add content to a lesson

There are many types of content that you can add to a lesson. Some of the most popular ones are listed below:

• Slides
• Video
• Quiz
• Draw It
• Tree to Climb
• Matching Pairs
• Collaborative Board
• Poll
• Open-Ended Question

In your activity or lesson, click on Add Content & Activities. To view all the possible content and media types, click on All in that window that appears and browser for content, media, games, etc. to add into your lesson.

For a full list of all the Nearpod content and activity features, click here to browser Nearpod's documentation and resources.

Start a lesson

To start a lesson you have already created

1. Click on My Lessons on the left hand side of the window
2. Hover over the Lesson or Activity you want to start
3. Click on either Live Participation or Student-Paced
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4. Share the Join Code with your students, and you can start the lesson!
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Learn more about Nearpod

For more Nearpod resources, check out these Getting Started Videos, or check out Nearpod's YouTube Channel! If you still have questions, don't hesitate to reach out to a member of the Tech Team. We are here to help!