Nearpod

Nearpod offers nine formative assessment tools within its platform, which include quizzes, polls, open-ended questions, and a cooperative ‘Draw It’ board. Teachers can embed these directly within any lesson and check for learners’ understanding with no interruptions to instruction. The software displays responses immediately on the teacher's dashboard.

The software’s library contains more than 22,000 standards-aligned lessons, videos, and activities for every grade K-12 and academic subject, built with 70+ publishing partners. Rather than creating resources from scratch, teachers can search by standard or a specific topic and pull a completed resource into a lesson, then modify the questions.

Nearpod provides 3,300+ K-12 standards-aligned learning games that teachers can use to support classroom instruction. Options such as ‘Drag & Drop’, ‘Time to Climb’, ‘Draw It’, and ‘Matching Pairs’ allow educators to reinforce concepts through interactive activities. Teachers can also add these games to existing lessons or launch them as standalone exercises. Plus, the software’s real-time insights into student learning help educators check understanding during instruction.

The platform allows educators to turn video instruction into an educational experience by adding formative assessment questions. Teachers can use videos from Nearpod's library or upload their own content and add questions to check student understanding. Its library includes 10,200+ K-12 standards-oriented interactive videos from 35+ publishers. In addition, instructors can look up videos on the basis of standards, grade level, or subject and also tailor questions in the pre-made videos.

Nearpod enables educators to make existing or newly created slides-based lessons engaging through dynamic media. It offers 20+ interactive experiences such as quizzes, polls, open questions, virtual reality, and PhET simulations. Instructors can incorporate these components into their existing content and customize assessments to suit their needs.