Nearpod alternative and websites like Nearpod for video quizzes that land in your LMS question bank

Can you export Nearpod questions to Canvas?

Not as quiz items. Nearpod's help articles describe downloading reports as PDF or CSV and printing a lesson as a PDF. They do not describe exporting the questions as a QTI package, so the questions cannot go into a Canvas item bank or be randomized into a Canvas quiz without retyping.

The Canvas integration itself is LTI 1.3 and is part of the school and district plan. According to the Renaissance support article for Canvas, the teacher opens the Nearpod Student Activity Report inside SpeedGrader and enters the grade by hand, and a Nearpod link placed in a module or an assignment description has no gradebook connection at all.

VidQuiz writes a QTI 1.2 zip on any paid plan. Canvas reads it through Import Course Content for Classic Quizzes and through Import Content in New Quizzes and item banks, and it grades the multiple choice items itself.

How much does Nearpod cost per year?

Nearpod Silver is free, Gold is $159 a year and Platinum is $397 a year. Schools and districts get a quote. Individual plans are charged once a year, are nonrefundable for partly used periods, and are paid by card from a signed-in teacher account; Nearpod does not process purchase orders for individual licenses, though it gives you an invoice so you can claim the cost back.

What changes between tiers is mostly scale. Students in one lesson go from 40 to 75 to 90, storage from 300 MB to 1 GB to 5 GB, and Gold adds Drag and Drop, running several sessions at once and full access to the AI Create Question Generator. The full breakdown is in our Nearpod pricing article.

Is Nearpod or Edpuzzle better?

Nearpod is better when the whole lesson is interactive: slides, polls, drawing, games and videos in one session a teacher can run live. Edpuzzle is better when the video is the lesson and you want to know who watched it, because it tracks viewing and can stop students skipping ahead.

Neither one gives you a question file. Both keep the questions in their own player and connect to an LMS as an app. If the end point is a graded quiz in a Canvas, Moodle or Blackboard question bank, that job belongs to a quiz generator, not to either of them.

Which websites like Nearpod work with Canvas question banks?

Very few of the interactive lesson tools do, because their business is keeping students inside their own player. Tools that write a quiz file are the ones that land in a question bank: VidQuiz exports a QTI 1.2 zip for Canvas and Brightspace, a GIFT file for Moodle and a tab-delimited file for Blackboard Ultra and Original.

Check which of the three question bank formats your LMS reads before you pick a tool. Canvas reads QTI only, so a tool that outputs Google Forms or a PDF will still leave you retyping.

When should you stay on Nearpod?

Stay on Nearpod if your class runs on live, device-based lessons, if you rely on its 8,500 ready-made lessons, or if your district already pays for a school license with the LMS integration and student accounts. A quiz generator does not replace any of that.

Add VidQuiz when the same video lesson also needs a graded test in the LMS, or when a class is bigger than your Nearpod plan allows. A 30-minute lecture becomes a reviewed multiple choice quiz file in a few minutes, and the questions stay yours if your school changes platforms.