{"id":8938,"date":"2025-08-12T13:48:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T17:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nearpod.com\/blog\/?p=8938"},"modified":"2025-08-12T13:49:24","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T17:49:24","slug":"6-genius-ideas-student-paced-nearpod-lesson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nearpod.com\/blog\/6-genius-ideas-student-paced-nearpod-lesson\/","title":{"rendered":"6 Genius ways to use Student-Paced Nearpod lessons"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Recently, I’ve been using a lot of Student-Paced Nearpod lessons in my classroom. Just like with a Live lesson, students can join by entering a 5-letter code, but rather than the teacher leading, students pace themselves through the lesson. Teachers can use this feature to simplify differentiation, facilitate choice, or send Nearpod lessons home as homework or newsletters. Take a look at how to maximize Student-Paced lessons and bring these ideas to your classroom!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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How to use Student-Paced mode on Nearpod<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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  1. Choose an interactive lesson from the Nearpod lesson library or create your own. They’ll all be saved under “My Lessons.”<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. Hover your mouse over the lesson cover. Click on “Student-Paced.” This will launch the lesson and create a code. (TIP: Once you create a code, you can no longer edit the lesson, so make sure your lesson is ready. If edits need to be made afterward, you will lose the first code and must create a new one.)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. Add an expiration date for the new code generated if needed.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  4. Click on the new code and select “Share” to view sharing options. <\/li>\n\n\n\n
  5. If you don’t want students to skip ahead through the lesson without completing the activities, toggle on “Require student responses and prevent skipping.”<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  6. Share the code with students, and have them type it on Nearpod. You can also share the link, embed the lesson, or use your learning management system (LMS) to give them access.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  7. Follow students along in real-time by clicking on “View Progress.”<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    6 Genius ways to use Student-Paced Nearpod lessons<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

    1. Duplicate to differentiate<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

    Differentiation can be intimidating, but the hard part shouldn’t be delivering differentiated content to your students. To easily administer differentiated instruction or practice, you can leverage Nearpod\u2019s Student-Paced mode to<\/span> enhance your <\/span>classroom differentiation.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Offering several adaptions of a lesson is #TeacherGoals, for example, baseline, remediation, and enrichment lessons. Nearpod has 22,000+ pre-made standards-aligned customizable lessons. Use the filter in the lesson library to search lessons by subject, resource, grade, and standards. The best part is: once you download your Nearpod lesson, you can edit it!<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Nearpod offers the option to \u2018<\/span>Duplicate<\/span><\/i>\u2019 each lesson. Consider duplicating<\/span><\/strong> and adapting your lessons to meet the remediation and enrichment needs of your students.<\/span><\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Launch multiple versions of your lesson with different Student-Paced codes to host student conferences or work in small groups<\/a>.<\/span> To explain directions or provide more context about the content, watch a video using Front of Class mode and then have students split into groups.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    2. Reports to identify prior knowledge<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n
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    A difficult concept of differentiation is identifying the variety of student levels based on prior knowledge. An added layer of difficulty is completing this on time. Consider giving a<\/span> Student-Paced pre-assessment lesson<\/span><\/a> at the start of your lesson, then access reports immediately to identify areas where students need remediation or enriched content.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Nearpod’s Post-Session Reports allow<\/span> you to access student data from the lesson. You can also use the Teacher Dashboard during the lesson to see responses in real time<\/a>. Now, you’ve eliminated the need to take papers home to grade that night and assign differentiated lessons the next day.<\/span> With Nearpod’s easy-to-read reports, you can immediately group students into the appropriate Student-Paced lesson & centers.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    3. Skill and Drill Centers<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n
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    Create a Nearpod Student-Paced lesson built off Skill and Drill practices.<\/span> Skill and Drill is very similar to memorization, but it involves repetition of specific skills, such as addition and subtraction or spelling. To be meaningful to learners, the skills should become the building blocks for more meaningful learning. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Set up Student-Paced Nearpod centers. Create a competition with your students, engage them, and reward them.<\/span> If your student can learn, master skills, <\/span>and<\/span><\/i> have fun.<\/span> You\u2019re off to a great start!<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Consider kicking this off with a Nearpod Time to Climb Student-Paced activity. Nearpod has premade interactive activities<\/a> for Matching Pairs, Draw It, Drag and Drop, and more! Reduce lesson planning time and use these activities in your centers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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