Nearpod

Nearpod is an instructional delivery platform for education that synchronizes teacher-led presentations across student devices to facilitate active learning. It addresses inconsistent student engagement and a lack of real-time comprehension data by embedding interactive elements like polls, quizzes, and virtual field trips directly into lessons. The system integrates into established classroom environments through a dedicated Google Slides add-on and supports school-wide deployment with LMS, LTI, and rostering capabilities. To reduce preparation time, its AI Create function generates standards-aligned questions and activities, supplementing a pre-existing library of over 22,000 lessons and videos. The platform is built for K-12 teachers, curriculum designers, and school administrators. In a typical daily workflow, an educator uses Nearpod to add formative assessments to an existing slide deck, then launches the session with a code for students to join on their own devices. As students interact, the teacher’s dashboard displays live responses, allowing for in-the-moment feedback and instructional adjustments. Post-session reports provide granular data for long-term planning, while administrators use shared libraries and reporting dashboards to manage resources and monitor instructional metrics across their schools.