Nearpod

Introduction

Nearpod is an environment that allows teachers to create presentations, interactive activities and assessments organized in lessons. A number of formats are supported (e.g. text, power points, PDFs, pictures, videos, including some form of virtual reality (VR) lessons. Each of these can be inserted into a slide. Lessons exported to students run as mobile applications. There is also a web version which does not seem to run smoothly on all platforms, i.e. We tried running it under Firefox 66/Ubuntu 16 and the JS console did show some errors.

Student activities can be tracked, e.g. the teacher can see activity completion.

A teacher can preview a lesson under either teacher or student view.

Authoring

A lesson is composed by a set of slides, i.e. a principle that can be found in Powerpoint or Articulate decks.

Nearpod (test) lesson showing different types of slides (May 2019)

Each slide can include either or all of

• Contents, concluding slides that can be edited online, Nearpod 3D, PHET simulations, Nearpod field trips, BBC videos, Sway applications, Slideshows, videos, Audio, PDF, and Life twitter streams.
• Web contents: display web pages (URL required)
• Activities includes open ended questions, matching pairs, quiz, drawing, collaboration boards, Polls, Fill in the blanks, memory test,

Nearpod (test) slide creation, "Add Content" selected (April 2019)