Pear Deck turns Google Slides & PowerPoint into interactive K-12 lessons with real-time student responses, practice, and standards-based assessment.
Pear Deck Learning (owned by GoGuardian) is a K-12 education platform built around interactive, teacher-led instruction. Its core product, Pear Deck, turns existing Google Slides or PowerPoint presentations into interactive lessons: teachers add questions, drawing prompts, and draggable responses, and students respond in real time from their own devices while the teacher monitors answers on a live, named-response Teacher Dashboard. Pear Deck also includes student-paced mode so learners can move through content independently, along with accessibility features like Immersive Reader.
Beyond the core presentation tool, Pear Deck Learning bundles three related products: Pear Start (an AI-powered lesson-planning tool that generates standards-based lesson packages), Pear Practice (a gamified, collaborative practice tool with avatars and group assignments), and Pear Assessment (a standards-based assessment builder with automatic grading, rubric scoring, state-testing simulation, and district-level reporting). Together these cover the instructional cycle from lesson planning through practice and formal assessment.
The platform integrates with Google Classroom, Microsoft Teams, Canvas, Schoology, and ClassLink, and partners with content providers such as EverFi, PBS, NASA, and Common Sense Media's Be Internet Awesome program. Pear Deck reports that its lessons have engaged over 14.2 million students, and the company positions itself around individual teacher accounts as well as school- and district-wide licensing.