Use Pear Deck with Microsoft Teams

  • 4 minutes

With Pear Deck for Teams, you can create and launch a Pear Deck lesson in record time with no join code!

Create or open a PowerPoint file

First, make sure you have a Pear Deck lesson ready to go. You can add interactivity and formative assessments to an existing file or build a new lesson from scratch using the Add-in for PowerPoint Online. When you’re done and your file has auto-saved to OneDrive you’re ready to go.

Start your presentation

To start you presentation:

  1. Sign in to your Office 365 account
  2. Go to Apps and select Teams
  3. Add a tab from the menu and choose Pear Deck. 
  4. Select a file from OneDrive and open your presentation. Make sure that Post to the channel about this tab is selected so that your students know your Pear Deck is starting! 
  5. Select Save

Voilà! Your presentation has begun and your dashboard is open in a tab. You can use it to run the presentation and see students' responses in real time.

Teacher dashboard and projector view

Your Pear Deck teacher dashboard is automatically up and running in the tab you opened. The dashboard gives you the tools to control the pace of the lesson and gives you a private view of student responses. You can quickly see how many students have joined your session in the upper right corner and your presentation controls are located at the bottom of the screen.

The projector view is also running. If you want to see the projector view in a separate window, you can select Open Projector View and a new window will launch from your default web browser.

Students join from conversations

On the classroom side, your students will automatically see a prompt to join your Pear Deck session in their Teams conversations channel. Selecting the link opens a new tab for them — no time wasted navigating to an address or entering join codes! Just a fast, seamless experience for the whole class.