Wonderful When it Works

How I Use It

I used it in a remote environment in order to engage students with the content. The instant feedback was helpful because I could see who understood the content and who did not. Unfortunately, the technology component is not quite up to par. It is quite time-consuming to create lessons, and, while Nearpod has a library with beneficial lessons, they do need to be modified to suit one's specific classroom. I typically put together lessons for my four different classes a week in advance. It has been extremely disappointing to pull up the lesson during class time to find that Nearpod is experiencing an outage or slowdown of some sort. In three weeks, this has happened to me four times. I hope Nearpod improves in this regard because it has a lot of potential and my students did enjoy it on the few occasions that it worked properly.