1. Open the Google Slides presentation that you would like to add Pear Deck elements to. Or, you can start a blank presentation from scratch!

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2. Now open Pear Deck. Click Add-ons.

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3. Hover over Pear Deck for Google Slides Add-On

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4. Hover over Open Pear Deck Add-On and Click

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5. Click on the slide you would like to add a Pear Deck interactive element to. 

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6. You can see that this slide asks students to draw their response to the question. On the Pear Deck menu, Click Draw.

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7. A pop-up appears that shows you what it will look like from both the student device, as well as the projected class slide that everyone can see.

Click Update slide.

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8. This next slide asks students to WRITE their response to the posed question. For a write-in question with text, Click Text from the Pear Deck menu.

Tip: You can also have students enter a numerical answer by Clicking Number.

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9. This next slide asks students to DRAG two icons into the section of the slide that represents their answer.

Click Draggable from the Pear Deck menu to create this format of question.

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10. Choose your icon type, and color from the Choose Draggable Items drop-down menu (this is the icon that students will drag onto the slide)

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11. When you're satisfied with your icon color & style, you can change the size that will appear as from the Draggable Item Size menu. 

If you have many students dragging icons, you probably want to make them relatively small.

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12. If you want students to add more than one icon (for example, one icon for something they feel positively about, and one for something they have a question about), Click Add another

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13. Click Update slide when you are satisfied with your icons, and how large, or small they will appear on the slide

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14. To have your students answer a Multiple Choice question on your slide, Click Choice from the Pear Deck menu

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15. Enter your multiple choice options. Click Add another if you want more than three answer choices.

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16. Click Update slide when you are satisfied with all of your answer choices

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17. The last question type is one that asks students to browse a website, which is linked to on your slide.

To add this type of interactive element, Click Website.

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18. Click Next

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19. Paste the Web Address you would like students to browse into the Enter Web Address box

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20. When you've added questions to all of the slides you want students to interact with, you're ready to start (or share), your Pear Deck presentation!

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Interactive tutorial

** Best experienced in Full Screen (click the icon in the top right corner before you begin) **