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# Start Live Practice

> You can start a Live Practice in My Library > click on a Practice Set's name > Start Live Practice.

## Start Live Practice

You can start a Live Practice in **My Library** > click on a Practice Set's name > **Start Live Practice**. Practices foster fun and collaboration among students via interactive and gamified learning. Students spin the big board to earn XP and celebrate their wins together.

Live Practice is a gamified learning feature that engages students in critical thinking and collaboration. Each practice has a round of questions selected by you that students answer with their teammates. When students answer the questions correctly, they earn rewards and care packages. If they're in groups, the groups earn bragging rights at the end of the practice.

From a teacher's perspective, the keys to successful learning rounds consist of collaboration, feedback, and game flow. Start Live Practice from a Practice Set in My Library or Explore.

## Prepare Practice

1. Click **My Library** or **Explore**. If **My Library**, click the name of a Practice Set > **Start Live Practice**. If **Explore**, click the name of the set > **Use** > **Start Live Practice**.
2. Click **The Big Board** or **Quick Play**.
3. For **Select a Class**, click on your classroom in the drop-down menu.
4. Select **Allow Guest Students** if some attendees are not in the class you chose.
5. Set a time limit for students to answer questions under **Time Per Question**.
6. Under **Additional Options**, optionally select: **Randomize Question Order** Skipped to **Skip Selected Questions** Click **Skip Question** to remove each question from the practice.
7. Click **Start Live Practice**.

Notes:

* If students aren't in the classroom selected for the practice, they won't have permission to join unless they join as guests.
* Once the practice starts, students must remain in it until it ends to receive credit.
* If practicing from Explore, we add the Practice Set to My Library.

## Start Practice

Please note that this section uses The Big Board for demonstration.

1. On the Join the Game screen, click **Copy Join Link** to share it with students or instruct students to visit practice.peardeck.com and click **Join Class** under **Home**.
2. Click **Countdown** and give students a time limit to join the session.
3. Click **Show Class Roster** to review attendees. Green indicates attendance. Gray indicates absence.
4. Click **Start Now**.
5. Click **Shuffle Teams** to change groups (optional).
6. Click **Let's Play**.
7. Review the rules and click **Start the Game**.

## Run Practice

The key to running a successful practice is fostering a fun environment and managing the game flow. Part of the experience is the Pear Practice soundtrack, which includes unique tracks crafted by the Pear Practice team. Hype the class by raising the volume from the hamburger menu > **Adjust Volume**.

We recommend engaging the class by sharing helpful hints and discussing the practice items. You can click on the prompt to enlarge it and the speaker button to read the prompt aloud.

Teams can also communicate internally by reacting with native stickers by clicking on the question mark-exclamation point button and then a sticker. Their sticker shows in the lower-left corner of the screen to their teammates.

If your class needs additional time to work together toward solutions, add 30 seconds at a time by clicking on the timer at the top of the screen. The maximum time limit is 5 minutes when teachers manually add time.

If the class needs less than the allotted time, close the practice item by clicking **End Early**.

After the practice item round ends, review the correct answer with the class and click **Place Tokens** to move on to the Big Board.

When placing tokens, the students click and hold the token to move it onto the board. Their goal is to place the token on an empty spot on the board to increase their chances of earning XP.

If they need help with placing tokens, click **Place and Move On**. You may also help students with spinning the wheel by clicking **Stop Spin**.

Following the token placement, you'll check in with the scoreboard to see which team has the most points. This incentivizes students to collaborate more en route to solutions and leapfrog the board's leader when final scores are posted at the game's end, where they level up, earn XP, and receive a bus ticket to spend on the Season Map.

For more information about Live Practice, please read Big Board Basics and Structure.