Nearpod has a number of new features (currently in Beta) available for you to use.
They are:
1 – Presenters can now switch to student view rather than logging in as a student participant.
When you launch a live session you will now see that there is a new icon top right of the screen that switch the current screen into a student view.
![](https://blogs.brighton.ac.uk/elearningteam/files/2017/11/studentpreviewNearpod-1zgva2l.png)
![teach and student views](https://blogs.brighton.ac.uk/elearningteam/files/2017/11/teachstudentview-28xrn0u.png)
2 – New types of slide – You can now add 3D objects and PhET Simulations to your lessons
Find out more about PhET
3 – New Slide builder features – You can now custom build your slides and add background images and animated gifs to your slides
![New Slide Features](https://blogs.brighton.ac.uk/elearningteam/files/2017/11/slidefeatures-2ftqxjb.png)
4 – Slides can now easily be converted into Draw It exercises
Thanks Marion, very useful. We use Nearpod in our year 4 GP teaching so will pass this on. I have just educated myself on PhET simulations!