
Pear Deck
Pear Deck helps educators create and deliver interactive lessons through the Pear Deck Learning platform.
What Pear Deck is
Pear Deck helps educators create and deliver interactive lessons through the Pear Deck Learning platform. Lessons can include questions, collaborative activities, live polls, and quizzes, with real-time feedback on student understanding. Teachers can use ready-to-teach materials and templates or create instant lesson packages containing customizable lessons, practice sets, and tests differentiated for multiple student groups. Content Orchard provides more than 1,000 certified math and ELA lessons for grades 2–12, plus standards-aligned content, templates, and activities. Listed integrations include Google Slides, Google Classroom, PowerPoint, Microsoft Teams, Canvas, and Schoology. Sign-on works with Google or Microsoft, and Google Classroom can roster students and assign lessons. The Teacher Free plan costs nothing and includes interactive lessons, Student-Paced mode, anonymous joining, templates, and classroom tools. Teacher Premium costs $149 a year with an educator discount and adds a dashboard, drawing and draggable responses, Reflect & Review, and teacher feedback.
Good
- Supports real-time student feedback
- Includes live polls and quizzes
- Offers differentiated lesson packages
- Provides over 1,000 certified lessons
- Integrates with major classroom platforms
Watch out
- Some features require Google Apps for Education
- Teacher Premium costs $149 a year
Who it suits
Pear Deck suits educators, schools, and districts running interactive classroom lessons. Its school and district offering includes administrator dashboards and usage data.
Verdict
Pear Deck combines lesson creation, classroom interaction, and feedback with broad education-platform integrations. Review plan differences and Google-only feature limits when selecting an edition.
Plans and prices
From Pear Deck's own pricing page, checked 9 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Teacher Free | Free | Interactive lessons and questions · Student-Paced mode · ready-to-teach lessons and templates · anonymous student joining · Google and Microsoft classroom tools |
| Teacher Premium | $149 a year | Teacher Free features · Teacher Dashboard · Drawing and Draggable responses · Reflect & Review · Teacher Feedback · $149*/year (*with educator discount) |
| Schools & Districts | Priced on request | Teacher Premium features · District Library · certified math and ELA lessons for grades 3–12 · onboarding and implementation support · Canvas and Schoology LMS integrations · Custom |
The facts
Each one read from Pear Deck's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Account access
- Pear Deck supports sign-on with Google or Microsoft, and its pricing page says Google Classroom can be used to roster students and assign lessons.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Audience
- Pear Deck is presented for educators, schools, and districts, with school and district features including administrator dashboards and usage data.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Certification
- Pear Deck Learning products are 1EdTech TrustEd Apps certified.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Content library
- Content Orchard includes more than 1,000 certified math and ELA lessons for grades 2–12, standards-aligned content, templates, and activities.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Data safeguards
- The company says it uses TLS encryption in transit and restricts access to personal student information on a need-to-know basis.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Engagement
- The product supports collaborative classroom activities and real-time feedback on student understanding.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Integrations
- The product page lists Google Slides, Google Classroom, PowerPoint, Microsoft Teams, Canvas, and Schoology integrations.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Lesson generation
- Instant lesson packages can include customizable lessons, practice sets, and tests differentiated for multiple student groups.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Privacy
- Pear Deck Learning says it is FERPA compliant and does not sell, trade, or rent student personal information.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Product
- Pear Deck helps teachers create and deliver interactive lessons on any topic as part of the Pear Deck Learning platform.checked 9 Oct 2026
- School data control
- Schools and districts own and control their personal student information and can request its deletion at any time.checked 9 Oct 2026
Money
- Plan limit
- Flashcard Factory and Audio to Slides are available only on Google Apps for Education.checked 9 Oct 2026
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