NEARPOD

 Introduction

-  Nearpod is a web platform that allows teachers to create interactive presentations in class or remotely. With this platform, you can engage students through quizzes, surveys, and gamified activities to keep their attention throughout the class. Nearpod allows you to conduct a class in a fun way to motivate and increase participation. Students participate with their devices, computers, tablets, etc. using an access code. The teacher has all the information of the activities carried out by the students in real time, the platform also allows to obtain reports of the session later. Nearpod is a cloud-based student engagement platform that helps teachers, schools, and higher education institutions engage and assess students through interactive virtual lessons and collaborative discussions. Admins can manually import lessons in various formats and customize them with polls, dashboards, quizzes, and matching activities. They can also use the lessons available in the database to enhance the learning experience.

Additionally with the social learning module, Nearpod is a tool for remote classes, through a panel of gamified activities that allow students to participate in real time that offers functionality for asking questions, polls and games to an audience. Instructors can deliver gamified lessons to improve competition and peer interactions. Nearpod integrates with Google apps and other learning management systems like Classroom, Slides, Drive, Canvas, itsLearning, Blackboard, and more. Instructors can also host live or self-paced sessions, facilitate student engagement with code verification, sync and control content across devices, and assess student responses during or after sessions with reports. Nearpod includes a library that schools and districts can use to store lessons in a central repository, organize them into folders or subfolders, and allow teachers to add lessons. 

Advantages

We believe that there are a number of key reasons why we should use Nearpod:

Flexibility: It adjusts to the type of instruction of each teacher. It adjusts to the need of the task you want to perform. Students can consult it from anywhere. It is compatible with any device that has internet access.

Versatility:You have the ability to add elements to interact with students. You can add "quizzes" (multiple choice), open questions, finds, activities to draw or upload photographs, fill in the blanks, etc. In addition, content can be added from a pdf, youtube video, audio file, web page, and you can include it from your device, from Google Drive, Dropbox or Box.

Comfort: It allows you to easily evaluate the answers of the students, since they are sent automatically by email or consult them from your account. In addition, the generated reports can be exported in pdf or excel format, which will make it easier to transcribe the grades.

Content: Nearpod has a large number of presentations of all subjects ready to be used in your class.

Price: It has a free version, which has restrictions only on storage and the use of some interactive elements. In addition, you have the opportunity to get a “Gold” account, which is free for six months if you get five friends to sign up for Nearpod recommended by you. If there are many teachers using Nearpod in the same school, you can request a “School account