Nearpod is a tool that allows you to upload pre-existing presentations you have and then make them interactive, start from scratch and create an interactive presentation or draw on the many available ready made templates.

Teachers can embed multiple-choice quizzes and polls, Draw Its (students write directly on a slide), collaboration boards, and open-ended questions provide plenty of variety to liven up presentations. You can insert your own videos and images as well, however on the free version you have a storage limit up to 100mb (not a lot when you are dealing with videos).

You will need to purchase the next stage version for improved storage ($120 per year for 1GB as at 04/2021) Teachers launch the presentation and monitor progress either from the website or through the app. Using the Nearpod app on their devices, students input a code and their names to access content and submit responses.

With Nearpod, teachers interact with students and view student responses in real time, enabling students to take ownership of their learning rather than passively viewing a teacher-directed whole-class presentation.

Teachers can control the timing or launch homework sessions in which students move through at their own pace. When using this live it is easy to see who is engaging with the presentation and when all is finished Nearpod creates a nice data center for you with all your class responses etc which could be used as a tool for future differentiation.