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Using Nearpod to create and deliver engaging presentations

Nearpod is an App for iOS devices. (Nearpod’s School Edition works for Andriod devices now.)  It allows you to create multimedia presentations to share content with your students and to manage the flow of the lecture in real time. Your students use Nearpod on their iOS/Android devices to receive multimedia content and to participate in engaging assessment and collaboration activities. Your presentation can be engaging and interactive through polls, quizzes, videos, drawing interactivity, website-sharing, self-guided quizzes and more.

PREREQUISITES

knowledge of web 2.0, use of iPad, iphone, PC, Mac

At the end of the lesson, you will be able to:

• create multimedia presentations with interactive feature in Nearpod content tool
• share your multimedia presentation with your students and control the activity with Nearpod app
• show students how to submit their responses using Nearpod app
• monitor students’ activities and measure students results using Nearpod

MATERIALS NEEDED

Nearpod installed

Step-By-Step Instructions

What is NearPod?

Nearpod is an App for iOS devices. (Nearpod’s School Edition works for Andriod devices now.)  It allows you to create multimedia presentations to share content with your students and to manage the flow of the lecture in real time. Your students use Nearpod on their iOS/Android devices to receive multimedia content and to participate in engaging assessment and collaboration activities. Your presentation can be engaging and interactive through polls, quizzes, videos, drawing interactivity, website-sharing, self-guided quizzes and more.

How does it work?

Nearpod has two parts. One is the free iPad app .  This is where you will be running your presentations and where your students will access your presentations while you are running them.  The other part is the content tool.  You need to go to Neapod’s website to create, upload, modify, and manage your presentations so that you can run them through the app.

Using Nearpod App

To get the app and sign up a Nearpod account, you need to:

Go to App Store

Type in Nearpod in the search area

Tab on INSTALL to install the Free app

Tab on OPEN once the installation has completed

Tab on SIGN UP to create a new Nearpod account

Tab on SUBMIT once you complete the form

Using Content Tool

To access the content tool,

Go to Nearpod’s website: www.nearpod.com

Click on Log in using the user name and password you created above

Click on Done when you are finished. This will put you back to the “My Library” page.

(Here is a Youtube presentation to help you further understand how to create a Nearpod presentation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erPBcVGx0XM)

Launching your presentation

Go back to your iPad  and then tap on the Nearpod app

Log in if you are not yet. You should see the presentation you just published listed here

Find the PIN number for your presentation near top left

Give your students that PIN number

Once all the students have entered the PIN number, you can begin your presentation.  You now have full control of their viewing of your presentation by tapping on any slide in the presentation.

(Here is a Youtube presentation to help you further understand how to launch a Nearpod presentation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdkwFuJr6FU )

Editing a presentation

If you want to edit a presentation, you need to go to the content tool area.  If the presentation has NOT been published, you can edit it. If the presentation has already been published, you will first need to clone it to edit the cloned presentation, since published presentations cannot be edited.

Double click on the presentation you want to edit

Click on the slide you want to edit

Make the change on the slide and click on the Save button once you are done

How can you use Nearpod in the classroom?

Using Nearpod, you can presentation a rich content that address the communication, comparison, and cultures standards in ACFTL standards.  For example, you can incorporate PowerPoint presentations and videos into your Nearpod presentation to introduce some cultural aspects of the target language so your students can gain knowledge and understanding of the cultures.  You can present conversational topics to engage students in conversations; you can then create poll, multiple choice, true/false and open questions to elicit immediate feedback from students to assess their understanding of the target language and cultural aspects. In addition, you can also show your students the results of assessments “blindly” or in the “open.” Finally, you can even require your students to use Nearpod to create a presentation for a given topic in the target language.  Nearpod combines presentation, collaboration, and real-time assessment tools into one integrated solution!

Additional Resources and Works Cited

Activity management.

• Demonstrate Nearpod presentations
• Demonstrate how to use the different features in Nearpod
• Allow participants to spend time creating their own presentations
• Have members of the class show their presentations to the group.
• Discuss the ways in which this application could be used to support learning objectives in the classroom

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How to Use Nearpod

Nearpod is a formative assessment platform that provides teachers with tools to produce engaging teaching content for the students. It offers countless tools to make learning fun. Especially, right now with remote learning, it can be difficult to engage students’ attention. But with Nearpod, you can make lessons more interactive, and students will absorb them better.

Getting Started on Nearpod for Teachers

Teachers can create an account for free on Nearpod and access all of the free features. Nearpod also offers silver, gold, or platinum plans that unlock more features for you to use.

Go to nearpod.com and click on the ‘Sign up for Free’ option.

Enter your name and email address to get started. Then, enter the name of your school, and select your role – in this case, teacher. Then, click on ‘Done’.

The account creation is complete, and you will reach the dashboard for your Nearpod account.

Creating a Lesson

Now that you’ve created an account, the next step is to create a lesson. There are several ways to create a lesson for your students – you can create one from scratch, import it from other platforms such as Google Slides, or PowerPoint, and lastly, you can download one of the pre-made lectures available on Nearpod.

Let’s try creating one from scratch as it’s the most complicated, and yet probably the one you’ll use the most. Go to ‘My Library’ from the dashboard of Nearpod. Then, click on ‘Lesson in Nearpod’ option to create a new lesson.

The screen for creating a lesson will open. Click on ‘Add slide’ to create a new slide.

If you want to use material from an existing slide, click on ‘Upload files’ or drag and drop the file there.

When you click the ‘Add Slide’ button, a window will open where you can select what type of content you want to add to the slide. There are two tabs in the window – Content, and Activity.

If you want to add a non-interactive content type, you can select it from the content tab. Nearpod lets you choose from these content types: Slide, Video, Web content, Nearpod 3D, Simulation, Field Trip (Nearpod VR), BBC video, Microsoft Sway, Slideshow, Audio, PDF viewer, and Live Twitter stream.

For interactive content that lets students participate in the lesson, go to the ‘Activity’ tab and choose one of the following activities: Time to Climb, Open-Ended Question, Matching Pairs, Quiz, Flipgrid, Draw It, Collaborate!, Poll, Fill in the Blanks, Memory Test.

You can add multiple slides to a lesson, each containing any of the content types mentioned above, i.e., your lesson can be an amalgam of all the content types Nearpod offers. So you can use any of the content types in a single lesson to make it more interesting and engaging.

You can have as many slides as you want in a lesson, but there are limitations on the size of the lesson with the free plan. The maximum size of the lesson with the free plan is 40 MB.

Once you have added all the slides, click on the ‘Save & Exit’ button to save the lesson. If you don’t save it, it will still appear as an unsaved lesson on your dashboard. But you need to save it to share it.

A small window will open. Enter a title, and description (optional), and specify the grade and subject the lesson is for and click on the ‘Save & Exit’ button.

Sharing the Lesson with Students

Now, the lesson will appear on your dashboard, and you can share it with your students. Hover on it, and a few options will appear. Now you can choose to share the lesson as a live lesson, student-paced lesson, or a live lesson with Zoom meeting (in beta).

Sharing as a Live Lesson

To share the lesson so students can participate in real-time, click on the ‘Live Participation’ option.

A code will appear on your screen. Share this code with your students, and they will be able to join the live lesson. You can also use one of the other methods given in this window like email, Google Classroom, Microsoft Teams, link, etc. to share the lesson with the students.

The first slide of the lesson will be an additional slide that will show the list of students who have joined the lesson. When all the students have joined, you can move to the next slide (technically the first slide you created in the lesson), and the lesson will start on the students’ screens.

You can also see the list of all the students during the lesson by clicking on the ‘People’ icon at the bottom-left corner of the screen.

Sharing as a Live Session with Zoom

These days, when the only mode of teaching is through online classes, you’ll most probably be sharing live Nearpod lessons while teaching an online class. If you use Zoom to teach your class, this option in Nearpod will drastically reduce the number of steps involved.

You don’t need to create a meeting room separately and share the link for both the Nearpod lesson and the meeting room with your students. Instead, a single code would work for both.

Note: Before using this feature, you must have a Zoom account and the desktop app for Zoom meetings. This feature is also only available on Nearpod for browsers, and not yet for Android/ iOS apps.

On the dashboard, click the ‘Live Participation + Zoom’ option on the lesson.

A code will be generated. Turn on the toggle for ‘Make this a Zoom meeting’ beneath it. A button for ‘Create Your Zoom meeting’ will appear, click on it.

A confirmation message will appear. Click on ‘Start Zoom’.

If this is the first time you’re trying to use Nearpod with Zoom, you will need to sign in to your Zoom account and authorize Nearpod access to your account. But before you can authorize, you need to pre-approve the app. First, click on ‘Pre-approve’, and then click on ‘Authorize’. If you have an organization Zoom account, then your Zoom admin needs to pre-approve access to the app.

Zoom desktop client will open and the meeting will begin. Share the Nearpod lesson code with your students so they can join the lesson and the Zoom meeting.

Students only need to go to nearpod.com and enter the join code to enter the lesson as well as the Zoom meeting in one step.

Students will enter the waiting room in Zoom by default, and you need to admit them to the meeting.

Sharing as a Student-Paced Lesson

To share the lesson as a student-paced lesson, hover on the presentation and select ‘Student-paced’ from the options.

Similar to the live lesson, a code will appear on your screen which you can share with the students or use one of the other methods like email, Google Classroom, Microsoft Teams, link, etc. to share it with them.

A student-paced lesson will show something like ’29 days remaining’ on the window. This is the expiration date for the lesson code, or in other words, the number of days students have to complete the lesson. You can extend the number of days up to a year. Click on the ’29 days remaining’ option to open the calendar and increase/ decrease the number of days the lesson will remain accessible with that code.

If the lesson has an activity that requires students’ responses, you can also turn on the toggle for ‘Require student submissions’. The students won’t be able to skip to the next slide until they have submitted the answers to the current slide with this mode on.

Students can join a student-paced lesson similar to a live participation lesson, and don’t need an account for it. The only difference is that students control the presentation themselves in this lesson mode.

Joining a Nearpod Lesson as a Student

Whether the lesson is a live participation lesson, a live lesson with a Zoom room, or a student-paced lesson, the method of joining stays the same for students. Go to join.nearpod.com to join the lesson if the teacher has provided them with a code. If the teacher has instead shared a link, simply click on it to join.

The code will be a 5-letter code, and it is not case sensitive. Enter the code and click on the ‘Join’ button.

Then enter your name and additional information like a roll number if the teacher requires you to (this is optional). Click the ‘Join session’ option, and you will enter the lesson.

If it is a live participation lesson, you can only see the content of the presentation, and participate in the ‘activity-based’ slides but not control the actual presentation.

For a student-paced lesson, you will be the one in control. Click on the left and right arrows to move through the slide. If the teacher requires your submissions for activity-based questions, you won’t be able to go to the next slide until you submit an answer.

Viewing Student Reports

Teachers can view the reports for the lesson, whether it was a live participation session or a student-paced one. Hover over the lesson and then click on the ‘More’ icon (three dots). A menu will open; select ‘Reports’ from it.

The window for reports will open. It will list the reports for all sessions, live and student-paced, of the lesson. Click on the one you want to view.

Nearpod is the tool you need to bring that charm back to your classes and make them so engaging that your students will be always excited to learn. Nearpod even has plans for entire schools or whole districts if your school wants to use this tool to improve the level of education.

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How to create a nearpod presentation

Create a nearpod presentation.

Login to Nearpod.com from your PC or Mac.

Once on the home page, click Create to start your presentation.

The My Library section is where your presentations are stored. Click the New Presentation button to begin adding one slide at a time.

You can either start from scratch or upload a PDF, image or ZIP file. This first slide is simply a title.

Add an interactive feature for your next slide.

The slide feature allows you to upload a PDF or image file.

If your file has multiple images, each image will become its own slide, as long as the file does not exceed 10 Mb.

The slide show feature is for paid accounts only. You can upload image or zip files. Students have the ability to flip through the group of slides at their own pace.

The poll feature surveys your audience and reveal poll results in real time.

The Q&A feature allows you to pose a live question, assess students, and show answer results in real time.

The quiz feature provides a series of test questions for students to answer at their own pace and track their progress.

The video feature allows you to playback videos on student devices.

The draw feature allows students to draw on the slide. You can use an image for the background or leave it blank. You can select drawings to share with the class.

The browse the Internet feature is for paid accounts only. It allows students to browse the website that is shared.

Once you have added all the features you want, you can re-arrange the order of the slides then click the Done button. Your last slide must be a non-interactive slide, like the title slide.

Once back in My Library, you will see your presentation. When you click it, it will select that presentation and highlight blue. Click the up arrow icon to publish your presentation.

Once you have published your presentation, you will see a blue check mark in the top left corner. Now you are ready to launch your presentation on the Nearpod app.

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How to teach your students to use Nearpod

While many of our students are technology whizzes, most students need to be taught how to use education technology tools like Nearpod. Just like students need explicit instruction in the core content areas, students need to be clearly instructed on how to access the unique features that Nearpod has to offer. Using Nearpod is simple because it was designed with teachers and students in mind. However, to take advantage of a lesson and all of the accessibility options, kids need mini-lessons that teach Nearpod skills.

When teachers start using Nearpod, they are often thrilled with all of the accessibility features and the breadth of both content and activities. We all want to incorporate as much as possible to make our lessons dynamic, novel, and exciting while reaching every student through multiple modalities. But we can’t get ahead of ourselves and overcomplicate lessons for our learners. To ensure that our students are truly able to engage as independent learners, we need to provide step-by-step instructions on how to use Nearpod, just like we would for any other content-area-specific assignment.

Don’t have a Nearpod account? Sign up below for free to start using these tips!

How can I teach my students to use Nearpod?

1. use student view to explain procedures.

Each feature can be explained simply and clearly with both an oral explanation and a demonstration. For instance, when we want our students to add images to a Collaborate Board, we can explain the procedure while showing them through a student view. Project Nearpod on your screen and have students follow along. Make sure to have an engaging question ready! 

Here’s how to change to Student View from your Teacher View in just one click:

2. Teach students to use Immersive Reader independently

Immersive Reader is a fantastic accessibility feature that allows emerging readers to have text read to them and provides embedded translation and a picture dictionary for multilingual learners. It’s important to clearly indicate to students which icon and tab they need to click in order to access this rich technology

Students need plenty of time to practice their Nearpod skills. After direct instruction on how to use a Collaborate Board and Immersive Reader, students need multiple opportunities to engage with the activity independently. Co-teachers and paraprofessionals can become wonderful allies in this process. 

3. Use our pre-made Nearpod Orientation lessons

Creating Nearpod lessons about Nearpod might seem like a burden, but fortunately, the Nearpod team has done all the work for you. The Lesson Library has a variety of lessons designed to give both teachers and students help using Nearpod. These engaging lessons introduce both staff and students to how to use Nearpod and all its features properly.

4. Use our video tutorials (Tip: Upload to Nearpod to make it interactive)

Nearpod also offers video tutorials which are great for visual learners. Video tutorials are bite-sized video clips that show how to use Nearpod’s various features. They can be incorporated into your lessons or shared with students whenever necessary. You can also embed these videos as reference materials into an activity. Teachers can turn any video into a customized, interactive experience by uploading it to Nearpod and embedding questions that are relevant to the students right in front of them. You can find videos on Nearpod’s YouTube or Teacher Resources page.

Watch the tutorial below to see for yourself!

5. Making Nearpod a part of your class routine

Once students have been taught a new feature and have had time to practice, they’ll need plenty of repetition. Incorporating Nearpod into classroom routines is simple, easy, and rewarding.

Here are five easy ways to make Nearpod a habit:

• Incorporate VR as a lesson hook. Have students explore another city, park, or underwater environment that grounds the lesson in the real world. Allow students time to explore and see something new, activating background knowledge and building schema. 
• Use the Collaborate Board for your bell ringer. Ask an open-ended question and give students time to respond and react to their classmates. Start with a turn-and-talk to bring in face-to-face interaction! 
• Make a Poll or Draw It exit ticket . Use Polls or drawing assessments like Draw It to get a general sense of student understanding and see student thinking.
• Check-in on students. Explore social and emotional learning activities related to mindfulness and emotions. These are great activities for starting the day, right after lunch/recess, or when there’s an interruption in the daily routine (think fire drills!).
• Review units and lessons with educational games . Nearpod has an enormous library of pre-made, editable activities, but creating your own is fun and easy as well. Gamify Friday afternoon and Monday mornings with Time to Climb !

6. Student accounts

Student Accounts is an optional feature that you can enable for your school or district. Available as part of the  Premium Plus  license, student accounts provide valuable benefits to teachers and students at your school or district. With Student Accounts, students can enjoy seamless access to lessons, change devices, take breaks, or finish lessons later without losing their progress or submissions. Also, students can create and deliver their own Nearpod presentations. Learn more about Student Accounts here.

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We hope you’ll be using these resources with your students! Learning new tech tools takes time and practice, so Nearpod is here to support you and your students every step of the way.

Erika is an education consultant and a language acquisition expert. Having spent years abroad and around the US working with learners from all over the world, she is passionate about intercultural communication, multilingualism and instructional excellence.

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Crafting product presentations that connect emotionally

In 1984, Steve Jobs introduced the first Macintosh to the world. It sounds second nature now, but if you look at the video, you will see the foundations for the spectacle that Apple has accustomed us to witness every time the company introduces a new product — whether that is the iPod, the iPhone , or Apple Vision Pro.

The stage — which resembles more a Broadway show than a tech presentation — and the captivating music are set in a way that makes us want to see more, learn more, and, potentially, buy. There’s a reason for this — charts and figures alone rarely persuade on their own. Whatever information we perceive, we do so through the prism of emotions.

Therefore, when we are presenting a new product, it is key to have a story that appeals to that human, emotional aspect of people, which often drives our decision-making. In this article, I will share some tips to do so.

Tailoring a product presentation to create an emotional impact:

Founder of XPANCEO.

Establish rapport

It is an element of human nature that we are more inclined to trust those with whom we share some familiarity. In presentations , you can use this to your advantage.

From my experience, 50% of success comes with mastering your appearance. For example, if you are presenting to a fund manager, wear a plaid shirt and a fleece vest on top of it. If it is a startup founder, wear a hoodie with your logo on it. This creates empathy, as looking similar will create this impression of affinity.

Establishing common ground is important because deals are primarily about people, not so much about Excel spreadsheets and IRR calculations. Once you’ve taken care of appearance-related matters, emphasize building rapport by speaking clearly and exhibiting a calm and confident demeanor.

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Also, listen. Many people are good talkers, but not everyone is a good listener. The perfect meeting is when you listen for 30 minutes, and then, at the end, you agree in 3 minutes what the next steps will be.

Build bridges, not walls

Another recommendation is to avoid negative talk. Unleash the value of your product without undermining your competitors. Bashing colleagues, investors, clients, or even competitors kills rapport and generates mistrust. After all, if you’re criticizing others in their presence, who says you will not do the same about them when they’re not around?

Speaking about competitors, I recommend that you share information and knowledge with each other, as you are allies with a common goal of shaping the future together. Genuine conversations with them can yield better results than only communicating with clients.

Create an immersive experience

Your presentation needs to have substantially more images than words, and if you can create an MVP to give people something they can touch and feel, that’s ideal.

For example, IKEA developed a VR app that enables shoppers to visualize how a piece of furniture would look in their living spaces, and assess whether it is a good fit. This helps customers make better buying decisions.

Similarly, Marriott Hotels once created VRoom, an experience that, through a VR headset, allowed customers to digitally visit destinations around the world and experience the sights, smells, and sounds associated with the area. This also served as a way to promote other Marriott properties.

Dream big and demonstrate value

When Elon Musk or Mark Zuckerberg make a statement, it is bold. Ambitious goals are wonderful to pique people’s interest and make them ask, ‘When will it be ready? I want it so much!’

Opening up with such a statement shows your belief in your product. As a founder/leader, your genuine enthusiasm for what you’re building must be palpable. This conveys confidence to your team and external stakeholders. Once you make an assertion, though, you need to back up your odds of success, and provide as much validation as you can.

Keep in mind that audiences generally skim through long presentations and don’t read past the third slide. To engage effectively, use minimum words and maximum images, and explain things as you would to a seven-year-old. It is crucial to convey the product’s value right from the first slide, tailored to resonate with your audience’s needs and those of the specific industry or sphere they represent.

Then, your speech should center on how your product creates value and makes people’s lives better. Answer how you measure this value and utility, and highlight the human impact. If your solution helps people be pain-free for 3 days, say that. Sharing the numbers matters.

This includes traction — potential stakeholders, and particularly investors, love to see you’re moving towards your goal like a freight train, and also that you have a solid plan. I recommend you prepare a detailed roadmap with step-by-step success milestones. Make sure to explain what you expect to attain at each stage, and how these cumulative small actions lead to big changes — How can a small antenna change millions of lives.

Finally, add a slide with the team delivering the key message — If we don't do it, then who will? If there's anyone who can do it, this is us. The founders of some of the most revolutionary tech projects often include this slide right at the start of their presentations, underscoring their belief that they are uniquely positioned to succeed where others may falter.

What’s next?

After the meeting or presentation concludes, your goal is to agree on the next step — signing a contract, securing funding, or at least, meeting again at a certain time. The agreement needs to be specific.

For this, it is key to be clear on whether the person needs your solution or not. If they don’t, and you get a “no,” don’t take it personally. It is better to get a “no” right away than getting it one year later. Also, as a note. If someone asks you about a failure, this is because they know the negative aspect of your product. Answer honestly. Everything has potential downsides, so it is better to discuss them openly.

Last but not least, maintain a growth mindset and ask yourself how you can improve. Practice is the best way to hone your skills and prepare yourself better for the next opportunity.

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