Teach a Remote Lesson

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Start Your Presentation

1. Start a new Pear Deck presentation or reopen a previous one from your Sessions menu. You can launch a new presentation from three places:
   • Pear Deck Home: click the deck you want to present. When the deck modal opens, click Start Presenting.
   • Pear Deck for PowerPoint Online Add-in: click the present option from the add-in panel.
   • Pear Deck for Google Slides Add-on: click Present Lesson from the add-on sidebar.
2. Start a video call using a third-party service such as Zoom or Google Meet. Turn on your microphone and camera.
3. Share your screen. Select the screen showing the Pear Deck Projector View.
4. Ask students to join the call. Email the call link to them or post it in your learning management platform (such as Canvas, Google Classroom, or Schoology).
5. Have students go to joinpd.com in a separate window and enter the 6-letter Join Code from your Projector View. You can also copy and paste the Join Link directly where students can access it. Use the link if the session is more than a week old. Before the session, adjust the settings to allow students to sign in with an email address or anonymously. For most classes, require an email sign-in so you can see who submitted each response. See How Students Join a Pear Deck Session for details.
6. Lead students through the slides and show their responses using the navigation controls on your Projector View.
7. Ask students to arrange their windows so they can see both the video call and the Pear Deck Student View. Students see your Projector View on the shared screen and respond to slides in their Student View.

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Special Features That Enhance Remote Learning

• Teacher Dashboard: see student names in the private Teacher Dashboard with Pear Deck Premium.
• Takeaways: at the end of your session, use Takeaways to extend the lesson and give students feedback (requires a Google account and a Premium plan). Takeaways are shared Google Docs containing images of your slides with space for comments and continued writing. You can also export student responses to a spreadsheet at the end of the session (with Google).
• Student-Paced Mode: use Student-Paced Mode to let students work independently through your slides without a video call. Students get navigation controls at the bottom of their screens to move through the presentation and respond to interactive questions.
  • For Student-Paced lessons, consider adding a new audio recording or uploading one (10 MB or less) directly onto your slides. See Add Audio Recordings to Your Slides for instructions.
• Website slides: insert a URL from a third-party service (such as Edpuzzle, YouTube, or SoundCloud) into a website slide. In a Student-Paced lesson, students can play audio or video on one slide and answer an interactive question on the next. This is the best option for Pear Deck for PowerPoint Online users.
• Google Slides audio during Instructor-Paced lessons: play an audio clip on the Projector View (not the Student View) using Google Slides audio:
  • Open your Google Slides presentation.
  • Go to Insert > Audio.
  • Add a pre-recorded audio clip.
  • Install the free Power-Up Chrome extension before you present. This lets you play audio, video, GIFs, and animations on your slide in the Projector View during the session.
  • Present using the Pear Deck for Google Slides Add-on.

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