Pear Deck Erfahrungen

Vorteile

Pear Deck has taken my instruction to a new level. By making presentations interactive and engaging my lessons are much more effective. My students enjoy the interactive elements and engage in the lesson much better.

Nachteile

I would like to see more types of interactivity in the future. Also, the web integration does not always work because of the way it is embedded.

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Pear Deck offers a different level of interactivity and engagement for students. The features work better with Google Slides by integrating directly in the slide not creating a new slide for the new content.

Vorteile

Ease of use
Student friendly
Super engaging

Nachteile

Price: The freemium is a great start, but in order to get the full experience, you need the paid version which is very expensive in my opinion.

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I'm a wheelchair user and this enabled me to see all of my students responses in real time. Extremely accessible.

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Grading students pear decks is a nightmare because of how it set up it takes too much time and the feedback platform also needs updated because the feedback you leave can only be in text formate and when you star it for completion they don't see it.

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I have been using Pear Deck for several years now and truly enjoy how interactive my slide decks are. The students and clients I work with are able to engage more and get real time feedback too.

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Pear Deck used to be free and now it is not which is pretty common these days but the product is great.

Vorteile

As a teacher it is nice to be able to connect with students in class in a remote way. Students can add there thoughts, opinions, and ideas to a class discussion without necessarily needing to speak. Gives even the shyest student a voice.

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Not completely user friendly. Takes a few times to figure out how to use and implement.

Vorteile

I love PearDeck, I was able to see student learning at the moment. Students were able to write, type, draw, and select multiple-choice answers.

Nachteile

Sometimes the Pear Deck add-on was not working. This made it a little challenging to begin a session.

Vorteile

Pear Deck makes it easy to create interactive and organized lessons. Integrating multiple choice, open response, and other media options has never been easier.

Nachteile

Some of the digital options are limited. I think Pear Deck should update some of the features for subject specific content.

Vorteile

I love that I can use slides more effectively by making them more interactive. Google Slides are already so easy to use, and having a simple add-on that lets me ask questions and see the answers in real time makes Slides even more useful for learning. My favorite feature is the ability for students to answer questions by adding a drawing. I love seeing their creativity, and they have so much fun that they forget they're learning.

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I understand that they need to make money off of their product, but it is frustrating that they hide certain features behind a paywall. To have students be able to draw an answer, you must be a premium user. I think it would be more productive to have the tiers be more substantial. Drawing seems like such a small (but my favorite, most useful) feature to hide behind the paywall.

Vorteile

Pear Deck does what it is intended to do very well which is to make online learning interactive and fun. It make class presentation way more engaging and exciting. It tracks progress of students. It integrates very well with Google Classroom and Google Slides. And It also has a free trial version too.

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It would be good to get more basic features in the trail version of the app. I can't think of any particular complaints with the app.

Vorteile

Pear Deck has a lot of great resources that I can use to work with my students in an interactive platform.

Nachteile

It is hard to find the content I am looking for at times. I need to learn a bit more about it!

Vorteile

1. Differentiation and personalized learning: Pear Deck provides options for differentiated instruction and personalized learning experiences. i can adapt my presentations to cater to individual student needs by providing targeted questions, offering choice-based activities, or adjusting the pace of the presentation to accommodate different learning styles.2. Integration with Google Workspace: Pear Deck seamlessly integrates with Google Workspace (formerly G Suite), allowing me to create and access Pear Deck presentations directly within Google Slides. This integration simplifies the workflow for users who already use Google tools for education.3. Data and assessment insights: Pear Deck offers data and assessment features that allow teachers to track student progress, review responses, and gain insights into student comprehension. I can analyze student responses, identify areas of strength or weakness, and make informed instructional decisions based on the data collected.4. Accessibility and student engagement: Pear Deck provides accessibility features, such as language translation and text-to-speech functionality, that support diverse learners and ensure inclusivity in the classroom. The interactive nature of Pear Deck presentations helps to keep students engaged throughout the lesson.

Nachteile

1. Limited question types: I have expressed a desire for a greater variety of question types within Pear Deck. While the platform offers several question formats, I need additional options, such as matching or fill-in-the-blank questions, would be beneficial for my instructional needs.2. Pear Deck heavily relies on internet connectivity, and in areas with poor or unreliable internet connections users may face challenges when using the platform. This can disrupt the real-time interactive aspects of Pear Deck presentations.

Vorteile

Peardeck allows me to interact with my audience in a genuine and authentic way. Through Pear Deck, I can create a presentation and ask a collaborative question, poll the audience or have them complete an assignment. Their individual responses are collected and easily visable. I can offer real time fedback and know immediately their progress and thinking. It is easy to convert a prevvious presentation or Google slide into Pear Deck in a matter of minutes. Users can add the Pear Deck app and log on. I can have it as I live session or can save it to go back and review individual responses.

Nachteile

A drawback that I have encountered is that individuals must put their name when they respond. If not, the presenter will not know from whom the responses are coming from. I always have to remind my audience about this.

Vorteile

Pear Deck is a tool that gives superpowers to our Google Slides presentations.

Pear Deck's main forté is the number of templates and different formats in which you can present information so students can digest it. Even more important, students can demonstrate and apply what they know using the very same tool. The instant feedback the teacher has is invaluable.

One may think that these features are maybe difficult to apply or with a steep learning curve. None of that. Pear Deck is easy to implement over Google or Microsoft.

Nachteile

The only con I can see is the price if the service is not provided by the school. Maybe 25% less can be more attractive for individual teachers.

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I love that the slides push out to the students and take over their screens. I love that it can all be done and monitored. No one can move on before the user is ready for them too!

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I wish that the spreadsheets with data were editable. It’s all or nothing.

Vorteile

Allows people to make presentations interactive, provides opportunities for differentiation quickly and easily

Nachteile

Adding sound to slide only plays when the slides are running peardeck. It would be nice to have the audio recordings be available or saved so they can be used outside of a peardexk session

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East of use.

Vorteile

I could spend hours raving about Pear Deck! I use Pear Deck every single day in my seventh grade English Language Arts classroom. Pear Deck allows students to get started on work right away in class without needing verbal instructions from me. I use Pear Deck for daily bellringer work and interactive lessons. It takes simple Google Slides and allows students to draw, write, or interact with the lesson rather than hearing the information lecture-style. Pear Deck is easy to learn and easy to implement for occasional or daily use.

Nachteile

Pear Deck could be improved by making assignments easier to grade through connection with a LMS, such as Google Classroom.

Vorteile

I love the ease of use for both students and teachers while using Pear Deck.

Nachteile

Pear Deck is so wonderful but I wish it was Free for the premium features. I used the free version and was very pleased.

Vorteile

The color and how it presented is fun, warm and light to the eyes. Students and teacher like the features because it looks fun. It has templates for checking which is awesome. Teacher dashboard is really great and very easy to use for every class.

Nachteile

I hope I can combine 2 options in the same slide. Like drawing and quiz . I hope the when I do quiz like question, I can put in the key so that I can see real time who missed it and who got it.

Vorteile

I love that the software works directly with Google Slides and Google Classroom. Pear Deck is interactive. You can add slides with the drag and drop feature, a draw feature, open ended questions, true/false, etc.. It's got an existing library where you can get pre-made slides or you can create your own. So many features that make learning more fun.

Nachteile

There is a little bit of a learning curve. I started out with the pre-made slides and adjusted them. Then, when I got comfortable, I was able to create my own with no problem at all.

Vorteile

Pear deck is s great resource for keeping students' attention and for immediate feedback. This allowed me to help my students during synchronous time.

Nachteile

There is a feature where I can have my students go at their own pace, I wish that I could have all my students on the same deck where some can be student paced and others are still in instructor pace.

Vorteile

I love that this can be added to Google Slides to make them interactive. Students can do it while at home or in class, which is great, and easily connect from their iPads. I like that students enjoy it too. It has a lot of options. I also like how it turns maybe not-so-interesting lessons into interactive engaging ones. In addition, it allows me to do pre-assessments, during, and post-assessments well to check for student understanding. I also appreciate how it is very "on trend" and relevant.

Nachteile

There was a larger learning curve than I'd like for adding it on, how to deploy it, etc. One other bad thing is that if you have a large class, that many students writing on or interacting with one slide can be chaotic. Wondering if there are ways to improve this. It is also hard to tell who is writing what. You run into risk of kids writing or drawing things off task, which is never fun behavior management to deal with.

Vorteile

Pear Deck allows a teacher to see her students’ work in real-time and therefore make better instructional decisions. Pear Deck allows students to write on slides, answer multiple-choice questions, and drag up to five shapes.

Nachteile

This software could improve by allowing teachers to upload their own draggables and allow more than five draggables on a slide. Additionally, the customer service is very limited. I’ve had a student unable to access the slides for a couple of weeks now. Waiting to hear back from Pear Deck because my school’s technical support has not found a solution on their end. Additionally, I’ve google my student’s problem and haven’t found a solution. I am tech savvy.

Vorteile

This app ia great for engaging students in teacher directed or self paced learning. There are some fun features that allow kids to provide feedback and evidence of learning. Students learn differently and show us what they know differently. Pear Deck is one way assessments can be fun and engaging.

Nachteile

It is not easy to get animations on slide presentations to work. The company is quick to respond and try to help but the support doesnt always work. It would he nice if you could update a presentation without cancelling a lesson in progress and then restarting the lesson

Vorteile

I love the ability to keep all students on the same pace for a lesson, especially with students being in different locations during sickness and family trips throughout a school year. It keeps everyone on track and the interactivity on the slides helps them to stay engaged/focused as we go through a lesson.

Nachteile

I would like more options for interaction for math, specifically. It's hard to find engaging activities that keeps them able to interact with the lesson online, especially when students may not have touchscreen devices.

Vorteile

The thing I liked most about Pear Deck was interactive it was on the student side. They were able to write, draw, select from a multiple-choice list, and more. I believe this helped a lot with keeping students interested during distance learning. I also really appreciated that it was an add-on to Google Slides, rather than a separate program, because it allowed me to add Pear Deck to my existing slideshows.

Nachteile

There isn't much I don't like about Pear Deck, but there is one problem. When using the free version, there are only about 3 limited interactive tools at my disposal. I do understand that Pear Deck needs to make money somehow, but I would appreciate more interactive tools in the free version.