How do students use pear decks?

Turn on Email Login so Students Join with an Email Address

1. Go to Pear Deck Home.
2. Click on your person icon.
3. Click My Account.
4. Click Settings.
5. Go to the Require Student Logins section. Click ON. Then, choose the account type you want students to use to join your Sessions.

What is Pear Deck used for?

Pear Deck is an interactive presentation tool used to actively engage students in individual and social learning. Teachers create presentations using their Google Drive account.

What is Pear Deck and how do you use it?

Pear Deck is a Google Slides add-on designed to help teachers create engaging slide show-style content for the classroom and for remote learning. Since this is Google-integrated, it allows teachers to create or edit presentations right there from within their own Google account.

How do I power up my Pear Deck?

To use, simply install the Power-up from the Chrome Web Store on the device you use in class. Now when you present with Pear Deck, the Power-up magically enables the display of your videos, animations, and GIFs on the projector and student devices. For more information about Pear Deck, visit

How do I show student responses in Pear Deck?

Show responses anonymously on the Projector View

1. Start a new Pear Deck Lesson, or reopen a previous one from your Sessions menu. If you start a new lesson, choose Instructor Paced automatically open the Projector View.
2. Hover over the bottom of the slide. The Navigation bar appears.
3. Click the Show Responses button.

How do I invite students to my Pear Deck?

Invite Students from the Teacher Dashboard

1. Start your Pear Deck Lesson.
2. Open the Dashboard View.
3. In the Dashboard, click on the blue Roster button, located in the top right corner of the screen.
4. In the Roster, click Invite Your Classroom.
5. Choose the Google Classroom section you want to invite.

How do you write on a Pear Deck slide?

Open the Pear Deck for Google Slides Add-on or PowerPoint Online Add-in. In the sidebar, scroll down to the Ask Students a Question section. Click on the Text option. That’s it!

Can you use Pear Deck with PowerPoint?

With the Pear Deck for PowerPoint Online Add-in, teachers can add the magic of formative assessments and interactive slides directly to PowerPoint Online presentations. It’s free and teachers can make an unlimited number of presentations with it (learn about Premium plans).

Do slide animations work with Pear Deck?

By adding animation builds to your Slides, you can bring points in one at a time, as you’re ready to discuss them. And with the Pear Deck Power-up, your animations will work just the way they do in Slides. Then, in Slides, click Insert > Animation, and animate objects on your Slides to your heart’s content.

How to access Pear Deck?

Open the Pear Deck for Google Slides Add-on or the Pear Deck for PowerPoint Add-in. Click on the menu button. Go to Require Student Logins. Turn it on (green). When you present your lesson, students will enter the Session Join Code at joinpd.com or click the Session Join Link, and they will then be required

How to use Pear Deck?

Gather students on a video call with Skype,Zoom,Google Meet or Microsoft Teams.

What is a Pear Deck?

Pear Deck is an educational technology company offering a web-based application to K-12 schools and teachers.

What is Google Pear Deck?

Pear Deck is a new kind of presentation software (think PowerPoint, Keynote, or Prezi ) that’s built as a Google Drive application. The new idea is that audience members can login to the presentation in realtime from basically any device.