nearpod Overview By: Shelley Smith Castlemont Elementary 2014

1. 1.0 nearpod Overview By: Shelley Smith Castlemont Elementary 2014 nearpod Overview 101

2. Ways to Create a nearpod Author/create slides on the nearpod web site. nearpod Overview 101

3. Ways to Create a nearpod Create a PowerPoint. nearpod Overview 101

4. nearpod vs. PowerPoint: Authoring nearpod Overview 101

5. nearpod: Add Content nearpod Overview 101

6. nearpod: Add Web Content nearpod Overview 101

7. nearpod: Add Activity nearpod Overview 101

8. nearpod: Uploading a PowerPoint Drag and drop the file you want to upload onto the nearpod screen! nearpod Overview 101

9. nearpod: Uploading a PowerPoint A status screen will show you the progress of your upload. Click “OK” at the bottom when the button displays. OK nearpod Overview 101

10. nearpod: Uploading a PowerPoint Always preview what you upload BEFORE you “add” activities in case you need to edit the PowerPoint. nearpod Overview 101

11. nearpod: Uploading a PowerPoint After you upload your PowerPoint to nearpod, you should preview the slides. nearpod can distort your text and you will find especially for math that it moves things. 1,079 435 + In many instances, nearpod has shifted numbers so then the numbers look misaligned. Here they don’t look that way, but always play it safe and give it a look. nearpod Overview 101

12. nearpod: Adding Activities Once your slides have passed your quality control standards, you can add “activities”. nearpod Overview 101

13. nearpod: Adding Activities You can add an image to any of the activities! nearpod Overview 101

14. nearpod: Slide Order Prior to publishing, you can change the order of slides by highlighting the slide and dragging it to the place you want it to be. nearpod Overview 101

15. nearpod: Publishing Your Slides When you are done adding your activities, click the PUBLISH button. nearpod Overview 101

16. nearpod: Launching a Lesson If you launch from your laptop, highlight the nearpod you wish to show, from the “More” menu select “Live Session.” nearpod Overview 101

17. nearpod: Laptop/Computer nearpod Web site For computers or laptops, students will need to login to nearpod.com. Tell the class the PIN to enter and also write it on the board. nearpod Overview 101

18. nearpod: ipadnearpod app Student View If students are using ipads, they need to launch the nearpod app. Tell the class the PIN to enter and also write it on the board. nearpod Overview 101

19. nearpod: Teacher View with Pin PINS are not case-sensitive. nearpod Overview 101

20. nearpod: Teacher View of Student Signin nearpod Overview 101

21. nearpod: Teacher View of Interactive Slide nearpod Overview 101

22. nearpod: Teacher View – Slide Sorter nearpod Overview 101

23. nearpod: Teacher View: Slide Sorter/Drag & Drop nearpod Overview 101

24. nearpod: How Students Exit a Session nearpod Overview 101

25. nearpod: Reports After you complete a nearpod lesson, you can go back and look at reports under the “My Reports” button. nearpod Overview 101

26. nearpod: Reports If you have multiple classes, it stamps the sessions with a date and time. nearpod Overview 101

27. nearpod: Reports nearpod Overview 101

28. nearpod: Reports nearpod Overview 101

29. nearpod: Tips, page 1 of 4 If you can’t finish a session in one day, you can pick up where you left off. Launch the nearpod again and use the slide sorter to go to the next slide! With the paid version, you can email an absent student the nearpod and they can do a self-paced lesson on their own. If you add a video, have everyone mute their ipads/laptops and allow sound from your ipad/laptop. OR, give everyone a set of headphones. nearpod Overview 101

30. nearpod: Tips, page 2 of 4 Once you make a template that doesn’t need “tweaking”, you should just do a “save as” and use the same size fonts. If the file is too big for nearpod, go to “File---Reduce File Size”. It should help. Pick a short file name or you will have a hard time identifying a specific nearpod, e.g., “eny_mod2_1” nearpod Overview 101

31. nearpod: Tips, page 3 of 4 To avoid, recreating the same drawings, do a “save as” on the previous file and delete the slides you don’t need. It’s a time saver! Student sign-in: For partners, they can each put in two initials (first initial of first name and first initial of last name). They don’t need to enter a student ID. Number the pages of your PowerPoint. Use a Footer. nearpod Overview 101

32. nearpod: Tips, page 4 of 4 If you are writing down equations, vertically like 345 + 87, I suggest you do a separate text box for each digit and line up the numbers that way. It will possibly save you a lot of editing in the future. During a session after an interactive slide like “draw it” or “open ended”, you can share student responses with everyone once they submit their response. Tap on the image and “share”. If you are sharing nearpods with colleagues and they aren’t receiving them, check: spam.campbellusd.org. Login with your Campbell User ID and password. You may need to “whitelist” nearpod emails. Google Chrome seems to have less issues than Safari. nearpod Overview 101

33. 1.0 nearpod Overview By: Shelley Smith Castlemont Elementary 2014 nearpod Overview 101