Nearpod Reviews

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.

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.

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.

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.

- It is easy to create engaging presentations for students

- Easy to navigate

- Provides resources to insert in presentations

- 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.

- They have a pretty extensive library of preexisting activities featuring a variety of topics.
- Compatible with 1 to 1 classrooms through a variety of classroom programs (google classroom, canvas, etc.)
- Great for introducing new topics in the classroom
- Great for whole class instruction

- I wish it had a way of compiling student results for each question
- Not all information in the presentations is relevant to what the students may need to know. You can edit the activity though to fit your needs.
- Have not found it to be useful for individual student activities

What I liked most about this software is that it includes a variety of interactive features that include built-in assessments. It's beneficial for elementary school educators like me who desire to enhance their teaching and students' learning.

What I liked least about this software is that it loads slowly if there are many users viewing your lesson. Nearpod is also not available to access offline.

Nearpod improves on presentations by allowing you to integrate question types and project to the other users screens.

Nearpod could use some upgrades with their annotation tools in real time to allow a more effective live teaching tool.

I like the methodology used as teaching in the hand of technology, its audio and video tools, the facility to create interactive virtual classes with interaction of the student population adjusted to the programmatic content, the evaluation of the contents in optimal time, as well as the follow-up of the students.

The only limitation I see is the connection to the Internet, because the higher the level of technology, the greater the dependence on an optimal connection to the Internet. The rest are the benefits that I can comment on.

Nearpod is a teacher-friendly digital platform used in face-to-face, remote and hybrid learning contexts. Lessons offering interactive slides, games and collaborative activities encourage active learning and engagement for all students. Educators benefit from a variety of tools for alternative assessment.

There are still some glitches with the reports produced for the teacher. Products from some activities (e.g 'draw it' activities) are not easy enough to access.

Ease of use - digital upskilling is made easy by Nearpod training and tutorials.

Back end Control Panel could be better.

I can create self guided lessons with primary sources. There are multiple ways for the students to learn and remain engaged with the lesson and each other!

There is nothing that I don't like, but I hope Nearpod continues to add new features for students.

Time to Climb, On the Fly questions, collaborate board,

I do not have any complaints about the softward

That it has Google search integrated in it. That I can upload videos and pause them with questions. The fun interactive games and characters.

For English language learning, I find nothing negative.

The functionality of using Nearpod to share lessons is excellent. In today's classrooms where there are both face to face and virtual students, Nearpod has allowed teachers to reach all students at the same time. The teacher paced option allows teachers to control the pace. The student paced option is great for asynchronous work. The library of lessons has some great resources. My teachers love the ability to convert Google Slides into Nearpod lessons.

I would like to see a feature where students can work offline for those who may not have internet access at home. I hope that this in the works with the new integration that is coming with Google Classroom updates.

I like that there are lessons to use so I don't need to recreate but I can also upload my own lessons. My students like the time to climb games and I like that the time to climb is short and not take up a lot of time.

The access to the student work on self pace lessons. I noticed some improvement and more ease this last year.

My students look forward to their daily time 2 climb. They software makes it so easy to get instant feedback and quizzes. The draw it feature lets them fill in PDFs and do drawings. The timer that you can set it also awesome because it paces them during each activity.

The only real con I have with this is that it’s sooo expensive for the full version.

The software is very interactive, it also facilitates collaboration.

Limited amount of information that can be posted to a slide

The feature has an app, which is wonderful for students, teachers, and parents who want to observe and or assist their child. The activities range from all grade levels, are interactive, and allow for even group work. Lessons and other work can be imported into the software. The work can be changed to pdf as well which is nice.

My classroom is a self-contained classroom so the use of it is limited compared to gen ed. Many of my kids are nonverbal, and have a specific way they communicate, with specific visuals. I am sure, after more research and practice, I could figure a way to import the visuals they use .