Pear Deck Learning

Pear Decks are all created in Google Slides or PowerPoint Online, so teachers can combine the editing power of Google Slides or PowerPoint Online with the interactive engagement power of Pear Deck!

1. Create Slides: You'll create all of your Pear Deck lessons/presentations in Google Slides or PowerPoint Online.

2. In Google Slides, open the Pear Deck sidebar by clicking Extensions > Pear Deck for Google Slides Add-on> Open Pear Deck Add-on.

    

3. In PowerPoint Online, on the Home tab, click the three dots on the right side of the ribbon, and click the Pear Deck icon to open the sidebar on the right side of your screen.
4. Visit The Five Interactive Question Types - Pear Deck to learn ways students can interact with your presentation. 

Flashcard Factory is a game-based platform that helps students create digital flashcards to learn vocabulary. Just start with a list of terms and let student groups create illustrations and example sentences.  Review and select a final set of digital flashcards as a class. 

• Step-by-step How-to on this page: Getting Started with the Flashcard Factory.
• Best Practices Article: Getting the Most Out of Flashcard Factory.
• Watch an 8-min video: How to Use Flashcard Factory in Pear Deck.

How teachers give student feedback in Pear Deck

Pear Deck

Instant Pear Decks is an AI content generation tool that allows teachers to create engaging lessons based on content in seconds. Fully customizable, this tool saves teachers valuable time. 

1. Go to the Pear Deck teacher dashboard (launch from Webdesk, or go to app.peardeck.com)
2. Click Create 
3. Select Instant Pear Decks

 

• A Smarter Path to Supporting Teachers: Pear Start and Instant Lesson Packages (Blog)
• How Pear Start works, 
• Getting Started, 
• Pear Start DLT class recording (37 min, 2025)

Pear Practice

Getting Started 

Pear Deck's team of educators have created an array of ready-made Formative Assessment Slide Templates built to help your students warm up for the day, think more deeply about any subject, develop critical thinking skills, reflect on the lesson, and much more. They're all fully editable, free and available in the Pear Deck Sidebar Template Library. There is also an array of standards-aligned decks available in our Content Orchard.

From https://support.goguardian.com/s/article/How-to-Create-a-New-Pear-Deck-Lesson-1629747054481

Microsoft’s Immersive Reader improves accessibility, engagement, and comprehension for all students. Benefits include:

• Increasing fluency for multilingual learners
• Helping build confidence for emerging readers learning to read at higher levels
• Offering text decoding solutions for students with learning disabilities such as dyslexia 
• Providing translation of words or the entire text

Enable the integration in Pear Deck teacher settings

• To use Immersive Reader, simply go to your Pear Deck settings page (Pear Deck Home > My Account > Settings). Go to the Immersive Reader setting and turn it on. This setting applies to all future Sessions until you turn it off.
• Once enabled, students will have access to supports such as line focus, translation, and picture dictionary.

How students access and use Immersive Reader

• 5 Tips for Getting Started with Immersive Reader

1. Access PowerPoint online via the Webdesk Microsoft 365 Copilot tile.
2. Open any presentation. Add your desired prompt, question, image, etc. for students to view on the main body of the slide.
3. Click on Pear Deck option at the top right in the ribbon. 
    
    
4. In the Pear Deck Sidebar, go to Ask Students a Question section and insert an Interactive Response

You can also go to the Template Library and download ready-made Slide Templates, then upload them for your own use. See this click sheet for step-by-step directions. or view this 2-min How To video.

From https://support.goguardian.com/s/article/How-to-Create-a-New-Pear-Deck-Lesson-1629747054481

To apply a Pear Deck to your existing or new Google Slide deck:

1. Click on 🍐Pear Deck in the menu bar at the top next to Extensions.

2. If you do not see Pear Deck, open the Pear Deck add-on from the Extensions menu. (It has already been added for PISD staff).

3. Add interactive slides from the library or create your own custom questions. 
4. Click the "Present Lesson" button to start your interactive lesson.

Step-by-Step instructions: How to use Pear Deck in GoGuardian

1. The first time you click the Pear Deck tab from a GoGuardian session, you must link your account.

2. Once your account is linked, you will be able to open a file from Google Drive. 

1. Go to your Canvas course and click Assignments.

2. Click + Assignment.

3. Fill in your assignment title, instructions, and points.

4. Scroll down to Submission Type and select External Tool from the dropdown menu.

5. Click Find, select Pear Deck from the list, and click Select.

6. Click Save (or Save & Publish).

7. A prompt will appear inside Canvas asking you to log into Google/Microsoft and select your slide deck.

8. When prompted to choose your Lesson Mode, select Student-Paced Mode.

Pro Tip: Launch a new Pear Deck session for each class period! If you use the exact same Pear Deck session code across multiple classes, all your students' responses will dump into one massive dashboard. Creating a separate session (or Canvas assignment) per class keeps your student responses organized, makes grading a breeze, and prevents you from having to scroll through 100+ submissions in a single file

Student Experience: Students simply open the Assignment in Canvas, and the interactive slides render directly on their screen—no join codes or external logins required.

Create beautiful and interactive presentation slides with the Canva and PearDeck app smash. Read the blogpost!

Use your iPad to control your Pear Deck presentation from anywhere in the room!

1) Launch the presentation on your laptop computer:

1. Open a slide presentation with embedded Pear Deck interactive features (you can also open a regular slide deck, and embed Pear Deck questions one on the fly!). 
2. Click the Pear Deck add-on icon, then click the "Present Lesson" button to start your interactive lesson.

2) Navigate Pear Deck on your iPad:

1. Launch Pear Deck tile from Webdesk or go to http://peardeck.com/dash (be sure you are signed in with PISD credentials) in Safari or Chrome browser.
2. A pop-up appears with Open Session in Progress. Select Open Dashboard.
4. If you don't receive the pop-up, click on Session History and click on the active session.  A similar pop-up will appear.

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6. Now you can control the slide deck from the Pear Deck teacher dashboard on your iPad untethered. Add interactivity, show responses, and view notes with ease from anywhere in your classroom!
7. Add the Pear Deck Dashboard to your iPad Home Screen! Open app.peardeck.com, click the share button (up arrow) at the top right. Scroll down and select the Add to Home Screen option, name the tile and save. Now you can launch the teacher dashboard from the tile on your ipad!

"Pear Deck Certified Coaches are an elite group of educators who have been trained in the best practices of Pear Deck’s student engagement platform to tailor lessons ensuring powerful learning moments for every student, every day. This training goes beyond basic features and functionality, and dives deep into the five pedagogical domains that inform Pear Deck’s Teaching Truths." - PearDeck.com 

Learn how: https://www.peardeck.com/blog/how-to-become-a-pear-deck-learning-certified-coach

🍐 Visit Pear Deck Resources & Community

🎓 Become a Certified Pear Deck Coach

📝Blog: Exit Tickets and other Benefits of Using Pear Deck in the Classroom

🔍For Pear Deck FAQs: https://support.goguardian.com/s/pear-deck-topics

⚡Flashcard Factory TCEA Blog: https://blog.tcea.org/tag/pear-deck/

Pear Deck YouTube Tutorials for Teachers

Pear Deck YouTube Tutorials for Students

For technical support, please contact your CTA or the Help Desk - tsos@pisd.edu, ext. 28767.

For instructional support, please contact the Digital Learning Team.  

For Pear Deck support  - https://support.goguardian.com/s/pear-deck-topics