A partnership for unleashing creativity
Canva + Pear Deck
Loved by teachers in classrooms around the world, Canva makes it easy to unleash creativity and create lessons, learning materials, and activities in minutes. Canva for Education’s Template Team has created a series of ready-to-use, editable templates designed specifically with Pear Deck in mind! To use these slides, simply edit as desired for your lesson, drop directly into Google Slides or PowerPoint Online, add Pear Deck interactive elements, and present!
Canva is an online design and publishing tool with a mission to empower everyone in the world to design anything and publish anywhere. Canva for Education is free for K-12 teachers and provides premium features such as millions of images, fonts, graphics, videos, animations, and templates, plus a dedicated classroom workspace to invite students and educators to share, review, and manage work.
Pear Deck allows educators to build effective and engaging instructional content — right from Google Slides. This powerful learning tool makes it easy for teachers to build interactive slides with custom questions, formative assessments, embedded audio, and more.
Canva is an online design and publishing tool with a mission to empower everyone in the world to design anything and publish anywhere. Canva for Education is free for K-12 teachers and provides premium features such as millions of images, fonts, graphics, videos, animations, and templates, plus a dedicated classroom workspace to invite students and educators to share, review, and manage work.
Pear Deck allows educators to build effective and engaging instructional content — right from Google Slides. This powerful learning tool makes it easy for teachers to build interactive slides with custom questions, formative assessments, embedded audio, and more.
New to Pear Deck? Get started in three easy steps.
Once you have the Pear Deck Add-on for Google Slides or Add-in for Microsoft PowerPoint Online installed, simply follow the directions below!
Click on one of the Decks below to get a preview of the Deck and make a copy for Google Slides or Microsoft PowerPoint Online.
Once the presentation is open in Google Slides or PowerPoint Online, open the Pear Deck Add-on through the Add-ons menu in Google Slides or the Add-ins menu in Microsoft PowerPoint. You can edit the existing questions or add your own custom questions from the slide library. You can also use it exactly as it is!
Click the ‘Start Lesson’ button to start your interactive lesson!
How to edit Canva Slides for Pear Deck
(Make sure to install the Pear Deck for Google Slides Add-on or PowerPoint Online Add-in first!)
If you’d like to edit the Canva slides instead of using the premade Pear Deck versions, you can do that one of two ways. For slides that look exactly how you envision them, use method 1 (the PNG method). This will preserve the design just the way it looked in Canva, but won’t be editable later. For greater flexibility in your decks, use method 2 (the PowerPoint method). Some fonts or other elements may change during the conversion, but you’ll be able to edit text and other elements in your Pear Deck lesson later.
EXPORTING AS PNG
- Log in to your Canva account and search for “Pear Deck” templates.
- Once you’ve selected a presentation template, you can edit using Canva’s elements, text, photos and other graphics.
- Once you’re happy with your presentation slides, download each slide as a PNG.
- Upload each PNG file into Google Slides or PowerPoint Online.
- Using the Pear Deck sidebar from within Google Slides or PowerPoint Online, add one of six interactive Pear Deck elements to each slide.
Once you’re ready, click the Start Lesson button to start your interactive lesson as an Instructor-Paced or Student-Paced activity!
EXPORTING AS POWERPOINT
- Login to your Canva account and search for “Pear Deck” templates.
- Once you’ve selected a presentation template, you can edit using Canva’s elements, text, photos and other graphics.
- Once you’re happy with your presentation slides, click on the three-dot menu in the top right corner, then See All under the Share section. Select Microsoft PowerPoint to save your slides as a PPTX file.
- Upload the file into Google Slides or PowerPoint Online. Note: Some features and fonts may display differently than they appeared in Canva.
- Using the Pear Deck sidebar from within Google Slides or PowerPoint Online, add one of six interactive Pear Deck elements to each slide.
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