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Google Classroom Integration lets you invite your Google Classroom classes directly from the Projector View or the Teacher Dashboard of any Pear Deck Session. You can also automatically post your Takeaways™ to your Classroom feed at the end of the Session. This feature is available to Premium users who sign in to Pear Deck with a Google account.

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Enable Google Classroom

Before you can invite students from Google Classroom or post Takeaways there, confirm that Google Classroom Integration is enabled in your Account Settings. Once you enable it, Google Classroom Integration tools appear automatically in your Pear Deck Sessions.
  1. Go to your Pear Deck Home.
  2. Click your person icon.
  3. Go to the Settings tab.
  4. Turn Google Classroom On.
Pear Deck Launchpad with red arrows pointing to the Account Profile icon and to the My Account list item in the… Settings Page with red arrow pointing to the Google Classroom on/off toggle button

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Invite Students from the Teacher Dashboard

With Google Classroom Integration enabled, you can invite students to join your Session from the Teacher Dashboard.
  1. Start your Pear Deck Session.
  2. Open the Teacher Dashboard.
  3. In the Dashboard, click the blue Roster button 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.
As students join, their names light up in the roster. Cropped view of the teacher dashboard showing a red arrow pointing to the blue session roster button, which… window showing Google Classroom section choices with check boxes beside each and a blue button entitled invite this… Class roster window showing a list of invited students. Students who have joined are indicated by the word joined in…

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Invite Students from the Projector View

You can also invite students directly from the Join Instructions screen in the Projector View of your Session.
  1. Start presenting your Session.
  2. In the Join Instructions screen, click Invite Class.
Selecting Invite Class lets you pick a Google Classroom section to invite. To see the real-time Session roster, open the Teacher Dashboard. Projector view displaying a join code and and the option to invite class circled in red

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What Students See

When students go to the Pear Deck join URL (joinpd.com), they see a list of any presentations they have been invited to recently. They can click Join to enter the Session. If your Google Classroom roster is out of date or some students are not on it, students can still go to joinpd.com and enter the 6-letter Session Join Code. Student view of a Pear Deck join page showing a session they have been invited to join. Blue join button is…

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Publish Takeaways to Google Classroom

When Google Classroom Integration is enabled, you have the option to share the Takeaways link to your Google Classroom after you publish Takeaways.
  1. At the end of your Session, open the Publish Takeaways window.
  2. Click Classroom to share the link. The link is posted to Announcements.
When a student clicks the Takeaways share link, Pear Deck automatically identifies who is signed in with Google and gives that student access to their own Takeaway Doc only. The teacher can access all Docs from the Session. For more on Takeaways, see Use Takeaways to Extend Your Lesson. Share takeaways window showing a takeaways link to share with students and a share button entitled classroom.

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Resources

Teacher Dashboard

Navigate the Dashboard View to manage your Session roster and student responses in real time.

Use Takeaways to Extend Your Lesson

Publish and share personalized Takeaway Docs with students after a Session.
Last modified on July 14, 2026