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!

Total ratings for Pear Deck Power-Up

2.84 (Rating count: 25)

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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

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Recent rating average: 1.60

All time rating average: 2.84

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57% (12)

Date	Author	Lang	Comment
2022-09-08	Ashlea		Everyone that can't get it to work needs to follow the directions on the PearDeck support site. You HAVE to launch the session from Google Slides and choose interactive mode. It does NOT work for existing sessions. Even if you create the session from google slides, then close it, and reopen it again from the peardeck.com session list, it will not work. That's the only reason why I don't give it 5 stars - it would be nice if it worked if I'm reopening a current session.
2022-03-29	Robert Ferrell		I have been using PearDeck for several years and have come up with myriad ways to get beyond its limitations with animations (hidden text for pacing by paragraph) and videos (auto-start, and click-to-start) in my presentations. This power up was supposed to make my existing presentations work with the formative questions and engagement strategies I love the app for. Unfortunately, exactly nothing different happened when I downloaded and installed it. My presentations lost all of the timing (like before) and none of the other normal Google Slides functionality was unlocked. Back to the drawing board...
2021-03-07	mary thomas		Didn't work as promoted. Very frustrating! I thought maybe it was because my video links were to Youtube so I uploaded videos to Google Drive. Same problem. Too bad, it was my first and last time using PearDeck. Too much time wasted.
2021-02-08	Angela H Keller		This does not work as promised. Two GIFs worked, but an embedded video is just a blank screen, and NONE of my Google Slides animations (text reveals and image reveals) worked at all. Like, not at all. The animated features (text, arrows, images, etc.) don't show up and the presentation just breezes right by them. For me, animations are an important part of a presentation to limit the amount of information being displayed at one time. To mimic animations in Pear Deck, it looks like I'll need to make multiple slides for each single slide in Google Slides. UGHHH.
2020-12-02	tdsf daasd		WONT WORK >:(
2020-10-07	Hillary Olivier		uploaded but animations not working
2020-10-06	Emma		does not work. animations still do not work.
2020-10-02	Briton T		When this was working it was wonderful! But, it hasn't been working since the school year started. Now, I've had to start thinking about other apps to fill the void.
2020-10-02	Briton Tarter	en	When this was working it was wonderful! But, it hasn't been working since the school year started. Now, I've had to start thinking about other apps to fill the void.
2020-09-03	Alyssa Salas		Y'all... If Pear Deck could just offer the same options for Powerpoint that they do for Google Slides, it would be so much easier.. Instead, I found myself signing up for a Free Trial on my personal account, since Draw/Drag isn't offered without premium, and my school account (that HAS bought the premium license) doesn't work on Google Slides, then transferring my slides from pwoerpoint to google slides, downloading this USELESS add-on, and being excited to finally present a BLACK SCREEN to my students. No, this power-up does NOT work. I cannot play videos, there are no animations, etc. I jumped through so many hoops, just to be let down. If I wanted static slides, I would have just stuck with PowerPoint. So sad. Do not waste your precious, PRECIOUS time.

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