This is a banner for a Nearpod an tool to make slide presentations interactive. The image in the banner is of pencil holder, holding colored pencils.

Intro

Nearpod "offers real-time insights into student understanding through interactive lessons, interactive videos, gamification, and activities".

Getting Started

1. Create your account or login at Nearpod
2. Once logged in, you can start creating your lesson or additional help is available by navigating to the Teacher Resources

Pricing

The free Nearpod account allows for up-to 40 students per lesson. For access to additional features, pricing tiers range for $120-349 per teacher/per year with a maximum of 90 students per lesson.

Integrate, Embed, or Share?

You can include a Nearpod into your course by either sharing a link or embedding. Integration is not an option with individual or free accounts.

- Embed Nearpod: Watch this video on How to embed Nearpod in Canvas (Links to an external site.). Note that this video advises you to embed via the HTML editor but you will want to paste the embed code into the "embed" option in the Rich Content Editor in a Canvas page.
- Share the link with the invite code:
  1. Navigate to the join.nearpod.com (Links to an external site.)
  2. (Links to an external site.)Enter the Access Code U9G2E

Example

Student paced lessons are limited to 30 days and due to the limit, I opted to not embed a lesson. Instead, watch "The Ultimate Guide to Nearpod" as an example of how to get started and create a lesson in Nearpod.

Accessibility

Nearpod offers immersive readers, video closed captioning, amongst additional features to support accessibility. Details on how to use accessibility in Nearpod is available at Accessibility with Nearpod: How-To