Pear Deck alternative and websites similar to Pear Deck for video quizzes your LMS can import

Is Nearpod or Pear Deck better?

Pear Deck is better if you already build lessons in Google Slides or PowerPoint Online and want to add questions to those decks without moving them. Its free plan has no participant cap, and Premium costs $149 a year. Nearpod is better if you want a ready lesson library of more than 8,500 lessons, games like Time to Climb and interactive videos that pause for questions, but its free Silver plan stops at 40 students in one lesson and Gold costs $159 a year.

Both connect to an LMS only on a school or district plan, and neither exports the questions as a quiz file. 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.

How much is Pear Deck Premium for one teacher?

Pear Deck lists Teacher Premium at $149 a year, marked as the price with an educator discount. The pricing page shows no monthly price and does not print the undiscounted figure. Premium is tied to the email address you bought it with, and switching back to Free cancels it while keeping every deck you made.

Premium is mostly a dashboard upgrade: student names on responses, Drawing and Draggable slides, Reflect and Review after the session and written feedback. It does not add an LMS integration; Canvas and Schoology come with a district plan. The full breakdown, including Pear Assessment at $125 a year, is in our Pear Deck pricing article.

Can you export Pear Deck questions to Canvas?

Not as quiz items. After a session ends, Pear Deck exports Text, Multiple Choice and Number responses to a Google Sheet, and you need to sign in with Google to use it. Drawing answers do not export at all and Draggable answers export as coordinates. The help articles describe no export of the questions as a QTI package, so they cannot go into a Canvas item bank without retyping.

The Canvas integration turns a Pear Deck session into an assignment and is available only on a school or district subscription. According to Pear Deck's own help article, you assign points in the Canvas Gradebook by hand and the integration does not connect to SpeedGrader.

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.

What websites are similar to Pear Deck and work with an LMS question bank?

Very few of the interactive lesson tools do, because their business is keeping students inside their own player. Pear Deck, Nearpod, ClassPoint and Edpuzzle all connect to an LMS as an app at best. 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 question bank format your LMS reads before you pick a tool. Canvas reads QTI only, so a tool that outputs a Google Sheet, a Google Form or a PDF still leaves you retyping.

When should you stay on Pear Deck?

Stay on Pear Deck if your teaching runs on slide decks you present live, if you rely on drawing and draggable responses to see how students think, or if your district already pays for a license with the Canvas or Schoology integration. A quiz generator does not replace any of that.

Add VidQuiz when a recorded lesson also needs a graded test in the LMS. 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.