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Run a full GoGuardian Pear Deck presentation from within Microsoft Teams. Open your Pear Deck for PowerPoint Online file in a Teams tab, start a session, and the private Dashboard View opens automatically. You get real-time student responses by name while the anonymous Projector View displays on the classroom screen. Your school or organization must have a Microsoft Office 365 Teams account and the Pear Deck App for Teams installed before you begin.

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Start Your Presentation

  1. Sign in to your Office 365 account.
  2. Go to Apps and click Teams.
  3. With the Teams screen open, click the new tab button.
  4. In the Teams apps menu, select Pear Deck.
  5. Click Select a File from OneDrive to choose the PowerPoint Online file you want to present.
  6. In the file picker, select the file you want to present with Pear Deck.
  7. Once the file has loaded, click Save to launch your presentation.
  8. Your presentation starts and the Dashboard opens in a new tab. Use the Dashboard to run the presentation and review student responses in real time. See Use the Teacher Dashboard to learn what you can do. Responses from this session are saved automatically in your Sessions menu.
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Help Students Join

How students join depends on whether they are already in your Teams environment. Both paths work. Students already in your Teams environment Students who are in your Teams environment do not need a Join Code. They navigate to Teams, click the presentation tab, and click Sign in to Pear Deck to join. Teams, log into session, red arrow Students outside your Teams environment Students outside Teams can still join, but they need a Microsoft Office 365 account. To get them in:
  • Click Open Projector View. This opens the Projector View in a new tab.
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  • The Projector View always displays student responses anonymously. This is the view to show on your classroom screen. See Present a Pear Deck for more detail.
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  • Students go to joinpd.com, enter the Session Join Code shown in your Projector View, and sign in with their Microsoft Office 365 accounts.
Ppt, projector view, join instructions Regardless of how students join, their slides sync to yours and they can respond to any Interactive Questions you have added.

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Run Your Presentation

The Dashboard and Projector Views stay in sync automatically. Use the Navigation Bar in the Dashboard to move through slides. The Projector View and student views follow. See Present a Pear Deck to learn what you can do with the Navigation Controls. Teams, dashboard with navigation bar, red arrow

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Resources

Use the Teacher Dashboard

Control your session and review student responses by name from the private Dashboard View.

Present a Pear Deck

Learn how to use the Navigation Controls and Projector View during a live session.
Last modified on July 14, 2026