Pear Deck is a Google Slides add-on designed to enhance interactive presentations by allowing students to engage via their devices while following along. Founded in 2014 and merging with GoGuardian in 2020, Pear Deck offers various templates, custom questions, and audio features to facilitate immersive learning experiences. The pricing includes a free option and subscriptions that begin at $149.99 per year for individual users, with instructions for account setup and installation provided.

1. For Google Slides
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2. A Google Slides add-on is a software extension or plugin that
integrates with Google Slides, which is a web-based presentation tool
offered by Google.
These add-ons extend the functionality of Google Slides by providing
additional features, tools, and capabilities that enhance the
presentation creation and editing experience.
Introduction

3. What is Pear Deck?
● By allowing students to participate, Pear Deck elevates
slide-based presentations to a new level of interaction and
engagement.
● The objective is to provide a digital tool for instructors to utilize
in order to produce and deliver information to the class on the
large screen.
● Students may, however, follow along on their mobile devices
and engage when requested, making the presentation
significantly more immersive for the class.
● This is all applicable within Google Slides, so teachers whom
are already using Google Classrooms are allowed to use it.
source: https://www.techlearning.com/how-to/what-is-pear-deck-and-how-does-it-work

4. History
● 2014 – Pear Deck was founded in Iowa City, Iowa
● 2015 – It was selected as the winner of the “Rise of
Rest” competition by Steve Case.
● 2016 – Pear Deck expanded its sales team to
Kansan City.
● 2020 – It merged with GoGuardian
source: https://www.techlearning.com/how-to/what-is-pear-deck-and-how-does-it-work

5. Feature of Pear Deck
● There are countless of templates that Pear Decks
provides for a fun and interactive presentation for
teachers.
● You can create custom questions in the slides where
Pear Deck provides several templates for the students
to answer.
● You can add audio to any slide, might it be music or
recording of yourself.
● Students can join your session from any device with a
web browser.
source: https://www.techlearning.com/how-to/what-is-pear-deck-and-how-does-it-work

6. Pricing
● There are several pricing for the
subscription of Pear Deck.
● One is free for those who wants to
try the feature out.
● The next is $149.99 a year for
individuals hat wants to have
more access to features that are
listed in the following, and the last
one for school and groups that
wants to avail the feature, not just
in one classroom setting, but
several.
source: https://www.peardeck.com/pricing

7. Creating Pear Deck Account:
● Go to www.peardeck.com.
● Click on Teacher Login.
● When prompted, log in with a Microsoft Office 365 or Google Account and
answer few questions.
source: https://app.peardeck.com/student/tzwvvgzba

8. Installing Pear Deck Add-on to Google Slides
● Open the Pear Deck Add-on or
Add-in through the menu bar.
● You can add interactive slides
for your class or just add custom
questions.
● Once done, you can click
“Present Lesson” to start the
interactive lesson.
source: https://app.peardeck.com/student/tzwvvgzba

9. Pear Deck Sidebar
source: https://app.peardeck.com/student/tzwvvgzba
● The button to start your
lesson.
● To view the Template
Library.
● Interactive question types
that you can add in your
slides.
● So you can audio to your
slides.

10. There are different interactive slides you could
add within your slides for a more interactive
presentation.
source: https://app.peardeck.com/student/tzwvvgzba

11. Interactive Slide: Drawing Slide
This is an interactive slide where everybody can draw on the slide presented.
source: https://app.peardeck.com/student/tzwvvgzba

12. Interactive Slide: Text Slide
Students can also interact using answer short texts using text slide.
source: https://app.peardeck.com/student/tzwvvgzba

13. Interactive Slide: Multiple Choices Slide
It is a slide with that presents multiple choices where students will pick one as an
answer.
source: https://app.peardeck.com/student/tzwvvgzba

14. Interactive Slide: Draggables
A slide feature original to Pear Deck, where the students can drag an icon to answer.
source: https://app.peardeck.com/student/tzwvvgzba

15. Self-Guide to knowing more about Pear Deck
source: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1lHHMSvWNHoVsjmkcmMssbgnDW66Plhn

16. Citations:
Edwards, L. (2022, October 21). What is Pear Deck and how does it work? tips and tricks. TechLearningMagazine. Retrieved April 28,
2023, from https://www.techlearning.com/how-to/what-is-pear-deck-and-how-does-it-work
Pear Deck Account. Pear Deck. (n.d.). Retrieved April 28, 2023, from https://app.peardeck.com/student/tzwvvgzba
Pear Deck Tutorial. Pear Deck. (n.d.). Retrieved April 28, 2023, from https://app.peardeck.com/student/tzwvvgzba%E2%80%8B
Team, S. (2019, July 3). Activegrade founders create new education startup Pear Deck. Silicon Prairie News.
https://siliconprairienews.com/2014/03/activegrade-founders-create-new-education-startup-pear-deck/

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