Pear Deck Power-Up

Ensures that videos, animations, and GIFs embedded in your Pear Deck slides play at full resolution—exactly the way they should!
What is Pear Deck Power-Up?
Pear Deck Power-Up is a Chrome extension perfect for educators. This tool ensures videos, animations, and GIFs embedded in your Pear Deck presentations play at their highest resolution. Simply install the Power-Up on your device, and it will enhance the visual display in both the projector and student devices when you present with Pear Deck.

Extension stats

Users: N/A
Version: 2024.09.30.01029-aea20a32722441e20f07c44558467b3bed3beafd (Last updated: 2024-10-08)
Creation date: 2020-06-08
Risk impact: High risk impact
Risk likelihood: Moderate risk likelihood
Manifest version: 3
Permissions:
  • activeTab
  • tabs
  • storage
  • nativeMessaging
Host permissions:
  • https://*.pdstaging.com/*
  • https://*.peardeck.com/*
  • https://*.googleusercontent.com/*
  • https://docs.google.com/*
Size: 1.31M

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Extension summary

Using Videos, Animations, and GIFs in your Pear Deck? Get ready to power up!

The Power-up is a free Google Chrome extension. Installing it ensures that videos, animations, and GIFs embedded in your Pear Deck slides play at full resolution—exactly the way they should!

To use, simply install the Power-up from the Chrome Web Store on the device you use in class. Now when you present with Pear Deck, the Power-up magically enables the display of your videos, animations, and GIFs on the projector and student devices.

For more information about Pear Deck, visit www.peardeck.com.

User reviews

These summaries are automatically generated weekly using AI based on recent user reviews. Chrome Web Store does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.
Pros
  • Easy to install
  • Adding extra elements to slides
  • Useful when it works
  • Gifs working
Cons
  • Not working as promised
  • Difficult to activate and deactivate
  • Animations and videos not working
  • Cannot pause slides
  • Not compatible with existing sessions
Most mentioned
  • Incompatibility with animations
  • Issue with GIF and video functionality
  • Problems with existing sessions
  • Installation process
  • Lack of pausing feature
Recent reviews
Effectively useless unless you follow a very restrictive golden path.
by Ben Frisch, 2024-10-09

I love Pear Deck, but the Power Up extension is a complete bust. This is such an important feature, I don't know why it's taking them so long to sort this out. I only open from Google Slides and animations still don't work, so that comment below is pointless.
by Jeri Hurd, 2024-10-07

It doesn't work if you're reopening a Pear Deck, which is less than ideal. I don't always get through a full presentation in one day, and I like to reopen the Pear Deck instead of starting a new one (in order to keep student responses all in one place).
by David Adams, 2024-09-12
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Extension safety

Risk impact

Pear Deck Power-Up is risky to use as it requires a number of sensitive permissions that can potentially harm your browser and steal your data. Exercise caution when installing this extension. Review carefully before installing. We recommend that you only install Pear Deck Power-Up if you trust the publisher.

Risk likelihood

Pear Deck Power-Up is probably trust-worthy. Prefer other publishers if available. Exercise caution when installing this extension.

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