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Top Hat
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Nearpod
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Price: 1 semester = $26
1 year = $36
4 years = $75
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Price: Silver Package = free
Gold Package =
$120/year per teacher
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Features: Free access to textbooks, free assignments, upload slides
easily, add interactive questions, launch polls, mark attendance, BYOD to
sync to app in class
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Features: Polls, slide shows, interactive quizzes, virtual field
trips, assign homework, add last minute activities
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Notes: $10 for tests, fees are for students, professors are free
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Notes: Fees are for the teachers to pay
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Top Hat and Nearpod are both educational apps that are great
to use in the classroom. Top Hat seems to appeal more towards a college or
university class. Nearpod is geared towards elementary or secondary grades.
Top Hat has an interesting feature that allows the professor
of a classroom to take a view of the class and the app will automatically take
roll. The app also allows the students to use the discussion feature as the
professor is going over notes. Students can also use the discussion feature
anonymously, and the professor can sync your device with the lecture so that
you can move along with the lecture as it is being taught. All tests and
assignments can be integrated throughout the app. Another great feature is that
textbooks are uploaded for free (with the exception of the app price), so that
a student can access this material any time.
Nearpod allows a teacher to have access to thousands of
lesson plans. This app is an interactive classroom tool that engages students
with lessons. Teachers can create presentations, quizzes, polls, videos,
images, drawing boards and web content.
Both apps seem fairly similar. However, they are geared
toward different audiences.
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