Teaching Tools: Nearpod

This page contains the most relevant guides for using Nearpod when teaching students.

Requesting Access to Nearpod

Before you can use Nearpod, you must have an account created for you. To request a nearpod account, please contact TLC.

Guides

Creating Lessons in NearPod

• How to Create a Nearpod Lesson

• How to Create a Nearpod lesson in Google Slides

  • Additional guides about creating lessons in NearPod

Teaching With NearPod

• Flipping Your Class with Nearpod

• Teaching in Live Participation mode with Nearpod

• Sharing Student-Paced lessons and videos with Nearpod

• Teaching in Front of Class mode with Nearpod

• How to add an activity "On the Fly" while teaching during a Live Nearpod lesson

• How to access post-session student responses with Nearpod reports

  • Additional Guides about teaching with NearPod

NearPod and Canvas

• Add a Nearpod lesson to an assignment (you do not need to add the LTI to your course; Nearpod is already active in all Canvas courses)

• View Nearpod reports in SpeedGrader

Student Note-taking in Nearpod

• How students can take notes with Nearpod

Video Tutorials

Student Whiteboards

Nearpod allows you to give each student their own whiteboard and view each student as they write on their whiteboard. The following videos explains this useful tool and shows examples of how it can be used in math classes.