Pear Deck

 Pear Deck is an add-on for Google Slides that keeps students involved as a teacher teaches a lesson through Google Slides. Many of its features are free, but additional ones come at a cost. To get started, the presentation code will be displayed on the teacher's screen, and the students will enter that code from their own device. Throughout the presentation, teachers can add questions for students. They can use multiple different question types: free-response, numerical, multiple choice, dragging, etc. Answers are automatically anonymous, so there's no worry about classmates knowing if it was you who got the question wrong. If the teacher does want to know whose response is whose, then students would have to type their name somewhere on their response, if the question type allows that. Pear Deck works with distance learning, too! All teachers have to do is share their screen with a program such as Zoom, and students will be able to see the class code and the teacher's screen as if they were in a classroom. Last, there is a student-paced feature that enables students to work on their own. Teachers can also add audio clips to slides, so this is especially beneficial for student-paced lessons.