Nearpod

Nearpod Inc.

About this app

Nearpod is an award-winning instructional software that engages students with interactive learning experiences. With Nearpod, students have the ability to participate in lessons that contain virtual reality, 3D objects, PhET simulations and so much more. Interactive software features empower student voice through activities like open ended questions, polls, quizzes, collaborative boards and more! Students will learn while having fun.

How Nearpod works:

1. Students join synchronous learning experiences led by their teachers or learn at their own pace.

2. Learning experiences are created by teachers or selected from a catalogue of over 6,500 experiences found in the Nearpod lesson library.

3. Students contribute instantaneous feedback through assessment features such as quizzes, open-ended questions, polls, drawing tools, and more.

4. Students are introduced to content through dynamic multimedia that includes VR Field trips, 3D objects, PhET simulations, BBC videos, Microsoft Sways and more.

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Ratings and reviews

Terrible for me as a teacher! There is no log-in option. I cannot access anything Nearpod related from my phone. The app will only allow you to input a code, and if you try to open Nearpod on a browser, it tells you to get a bigger screen or use the app. Except...the app doesn't work either! Very frustrating for me as a teacher. Please work on this!

Nearpod is a very interactive platform for students to show their work and what they know. There's also collaboration boards with sticky notes where you can give likes to your classmates which I feel is a pretty cool experience since it's something kids can relate to with social media nowadays. The reason I give it to stars is because it can be hard to manage. like when I am drawing with my computer mouse and let go for a second, this weird bar of tools keeps popping up. It's annoying. 😐

Super Sucks for Teachers (not English Teacher, obviously 😐) This app is only to participate as a student. You can't do any creation/editing as a teacher. But, that would be fine if I could access Nearpod on my cell for editing, but, alas, I can't. Even with browser on "desktop mode" you get a pop-up "login with a bigger screen to create your own!" (which I read in annoying toxic- positivity- cadenced-voice of someone who says things like, "Looks like someone has a case of the Mondays" 🙄)