Nearpod
About Nearpod
Nearpod is a cloud-based student engagement platform that helps teachers, schools, and higher education institutions engage and assess students using interactive virtual lessons and collaborative discussions. Administrators can manually import lessons in various formats and customize them with polls, boards, quizzes, and matching pairs activities or use available lessons in the database to improve the learning experience.
With the social learning module, instructors can conduct gamified lessons to improve competition and peer interactions. Nearpod integrates with Google applications and other several learning management systems such as Classroom, Slides, Drive, Canvas, itsLearning, Blackboard, and more. Teachers can also organize live or self-paced sessions, facilitate student participation through code verification, synchronize and control the content across devices, and evaluate students' responses during or after sessions through reports.
Nearpod includes a library, which lets schools and districts store lessons in a centralized repository, organize them in folders or sub-folders, and enable an option for teachers to add lessons. The application allows students to actively participate in sessions, take notes using a web browser on iOS devices or desktop, and navigate to Google Drive or OneDrive to download auto-saved copies.
Key benefits of Nearpod
• Teachers can use Nearpod to create interactive lessons in order to engage students. Utilize tools such as videos, gamified activities, live participation, and more to enhance engagement.
• Utilize existing resources from other systems and make them interactive by uploading files from PowerPoint, Google Slides, YouTube, and more.
• Integrate Nearpos with third party learning management systems including Canvas, Blackboard, Google Classroom, Schoology, and more.
• Schools and districts can benefit from Nearpod's features for school-based, home-based, and hybrid learning including online learning, student insights, pre-built lessons, and more.
• Measure students' understanding and progress with real-time checks and assessments. Teachers can gather insights during and after lessons to gauge how well each individual understood the lesson content.
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- Industry: Education Management
- Company size: 201–500 Employees
- Used for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10
Self-Paced and Interactive Presentations
Reviewed on 21/11/2018
Overall, it has done what I needed and allows me to control a presentation or push out some fun...
Overall, it has done what I needed and allows me to control a presentation or push out some fun interactive elements to help keep students on their toes and assess quickly and efficiently.
Pros
Love the ability to create presentations or upload presentations I have previously created into NearPod and insert more interactive elements within them. There is a variety of question types and features. One really useful note is that you can control the presentation on your end, but have students or those attending your session view a different screen. This feature is great when designing virtual guided tours. I also appreciate that NearPod has integrated itself with Schoology LMS. Big bonus.
Cons
Honestly I don't have too much. The one gripe I have is that this is a great tool to enhance interaction and engagement, but relies on teacher-led instruction at the forefront. With a push toward self-directed/personalized learning, this may be a drawback. But this is a good tool to get you started with tech integration, or move toward VR as an element to your classroom.
- Industry: Education Management
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Weekly for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 7.0 /10
Nearpod in the classroom
Reviewed on 03/05/2019
Overall, the interactive nature of Nearpod makes lessons engaging and fun for the pupils. The...
Overall, the interactive nature of Nearpod makes lessons engaging and fun for the pupils. The teacher is able to receive and give instant feedback to their students.
Pros
Nearpod is a very useful alternative to PowerPoint presentations that keep your students active in the lesson. Nearpod uses a basic PowerPoint presentation which is displayed on the pupils devices but gives you the option to add questions or make students draw on a diagram making it interactive. The teacher has a dashboard whereby you can view all your pupils responses and then single out responses to display for further discussion.
Cons
Making a presentation from scratch on the Nearpod site can be time consuming but if you already have a PowerPoint presentation that you can upload and then add to it, it is much better. Unfortunately, any animations in your original PowerPoint will be lost.
- Industry: E-Learning
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used for 1-5 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 6.0 /10
Get the subscription if you use it
Reviewed on 25/04/2021
I used Nearpod during virtual learning and, while it was helpful and so easy to set up presentations...
I used Nearpod during virtual learning and, while it was helpful and so easy to set up presentations, I wasn’t able to do as much as I would have like due to lack of storage.
Pros
- It is easy to create engaging presentations for students
- Easy to navigate
- Provides resources to insert in presentations
Cons
- The free service doesn’t give you much storage to work with
- There’s not much flexibility in arranging the presentation exactly how you want it.
- Industry: Education Management
- Company size: 501–1,000 Employees
- Used Weekly for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10
Liven Up Your Presentations
Reviewed on 27/05/2021
Nearpod makes information engaging for students and adults alike. It makes delivering content much...
Nearpod makes information engaging for students and adults alike. It makes delivering content much more efficient and rewarding for the participants.
Pros
As an educator, anything that makes lessons more engaging is a win. Nearpod makes a presentation interactive and engaging. Presentations can have interactive activities, videos with questions, and several other ways to keep students engaged. Nearpod presentations can be done live or self-paced. The self-paced feature was vital to moving to remote learning. My classes run much smoother now thanks to Nearpod.
Cons
The quiz section is slightly lacking. It would be helpful if there were more options for the types of questions for the quizzes. Currently, there are activities for fill in the blank, matching, and multiple choice. An option more conducive to vocabulary would be very useful.
- Industry: Education Management
- Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
- Used Weekly for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Great For Virtual Learning
Reviewed on 10/02/2021
This is great for virtual learning. Students can see all notes and have quick check for understandin...
This is great for virtual learning. Students can see all notes and have quick check for understandings and the teacher can easily give immediate feedback. The incorporation of questions during the videos makes it nice to keep students actively engaged.
Pros
-Great for immediate student feedback
-Teacher view lets you easily see data and student progress
-Teacher view show names on answers and textbox while student view does not
-Convert Google Slides to Nearpod
-Add in questions during video clip
-Nearpod Administrator can impersonate all users and see their nearpods and their data
Cons
-Sometimes slow to load for students, especially videos
-Cannot draw
Nearpod FAQs
Below are some frequently asked questions for Nearpod.Q. What type of pricing plans does Nearpod offer?
Nearpod offers the following pricing plans:
- Starting from: US$159.00/year
- Pricing model: Free Version, Subscription
- Free Trial: Available
Nearpod pricing starts at $120/year (only $10/month) and scales with number of session size and features. Features expand across Silver, Gold, Platinum, School & Districts and Higher Education plans. Pricing details are outlined below: Silver - Free (Basic features) • Session Size: Up to 40 • Storage Space: Up to 50 MB • Lesson Size: Up to 20 MB Gold - $120/year (only $10/month) • Session Size: Up to 50 • Storage Space: Up to 3 GB • Lesson Size: Up to 40 MB Platinum - $349/year (only $29/month) • Session Size: Up to 75 • Storage Space: Up to 5 GB • Lesson Size: Up to 50 MB School & Districts and Higher Education - Please contact Nearpod directly for pricing information.
Q. Who are the typical users of Nearpod?
Nearpod has the following typical customers:
2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000
Q. What languages does Nearpod support?
Nearpod supports the following languages:
English
Q. Does Nearpod support mobile devices?
Nearpod supports the following devices:
Android (Mobile), iPhone (Mobile), iPad (Mobile)
Q. What other apps does Nearpod integrate with?
Nearpod integrates with the following applications:
Blackboard Learn, Box, CANVAS, Dropbox Business, Google Classroom, Google Drive, Microsoft 365, Microsoft Teams, OneDrive, Schoology, itslearning
Q. What level of support does Nearpod offer?
Nearpod offers the following support options:
Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Knowledge Base, Phone Support, Chat
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