Flipgrid
Amplify student voice!
What is Flipgrid?
Success Criteria
- Log on to Flipgrid?
- Create a Grid & a Topic?
- Share your Grid or Topic?
- Show students how to access your Grid or Topic?
- View student videos & respond to them?
- Delete videos?
Bellwork
- Watch the following video to familiarize yourself with Flipgrid
- Visit https://www.flipgrid.com/ & click Sign up Today!
- Click Sign up with Microsoft and use your RCS account to log in--you get FREE access to all pro features with your RCS account!
Create a Grid
- Click the New Grid button
- Select your community type
- I recommend School Email Domain so students can log in with their RCS email
- You could also choose student ID, but you'll need to import all of your students from the spreadsheet in teacher apps
- Name your grid--you may want a grid for each class period
- Customize your flipcode, if you'd like
- Select or upload a grid picture to personalize your space
- Click Next
- Enter the school email domains: student.rcschools.net and rcschools.net
- Click Launch my Grid!
- Duplicate your grid for each class by clicking the Actions button beside the grid name and selecting Duplicate Grid
- Edit your grid at any time by clicking on the Actions button beside the grid and selecting Edit Grid
- Add a co-teacher to any grid by clicking on the Actions button beside the grid and selecting Add CoPilots
Click HERE to read about the difference between a grid & a topic
Create a Topic
- Click on a grid title to open it
- You will see that Flipgrid automatically creates an Ideas & Class Intros topic for you--delete these if you'd like
- Click the New Topic button
- Enter a title for your topic
- Select the response time (maximum video response length)
- Enter the topic description or questions you want your students to answer in their video
- Choose whether or not you want to moderate videos before they are posted to the grid (I would recommend NOT doing this)
- Choose whether you'd like your topic to be active, frozen, or inactive & select launch & freeze dates
- Customize your topic by adding resources--video can be used in lots of creative ways!
- Add attachments so students can see rubrics, prompts, external websites, etc.
- Customize the topic features to allow students to add reactions, reply to videos, add stickers, etc.
- Add feedback, if you choose
- Click Update Topic to save
- Duplicate your topic for each class by clicking the Actions button beside the grid name and selecting Duplicate Topic
- Edit your topic at any time by clicking on the Actions button beside the topic and selecting Edit Topic
Share your Grid or Topic
To share a grid:
- Click the blue Share Grid button
- Choose to share a flipcode, link, or QR code OR embed the grid in your webpage
- You can also share via Remind
- Paste the link on your webpage, Team, Edmodo, OneNote--wherever your students will go to access info
- Share the flipcode on your class powerpoint, write it on the board, etc.
- Choose whichever is easiest for you and your students!
To share a topic:
- Open the grid where the topic lies
- Scroll to the topic you want to share
- Click the blue Share button beside the topic
- Choose to share a flipcode, link, or QR code OR embed the grid in your webpage
- You can also share via Remind
- Paste the link on your webpage, Team, Edmodo, OneNote--wherever your students will go to access info
- Share the flipcode on your class powerpoint, write it on the board, etc.
- Choose ONE method of sharing--whichever is easiest for you and your students!
Students create videos
- Students will access the grid or topic from your shared link, QR code, etc.
OR
- Students can visit www.flipgrid.com and enter the flipcode
- If students are using a mobile device, they MUST have the mobile app to use Flipgrid
- They will then be prompted to enter their student email or student ID, depending on how you set up the grid/topic
- Once they enter this info, they may be prompted to type their name
- Once they access the grid or topic, they can watch other student videos
- When they are ready to record, they open the topic and click the green circle
- They will be able to record by pressing the record button
- When the finish, they should click the Next button to watch the video
- If they aren't satisfied with the video, they should click the Redo button and record again or click the Add More button to add more to the end of their video
- Students may add an attachment and title to the video on the review screen
- When they finish their video, they should click the Next button
- They will be prompted to take a selfie
- Once they take a selfie, they can add stickers and emojis, if you enabled those features
- When they finish, they should click the Submit button
- Once submitted, the video will instantly appear on the grid
- After submitting, students may view other videos and respond, if you've activated that option
- Make sure students turn the volume all the way up before they record and that they speak loudly and clearly
- Recommend that students record in a quiet space with good lighting for the best video quality
- Students who don't wish to show their face in a video could record their paper or other objects instead
View, Respond to, and Delete videos
- View and edit all of your grids and topics
- View, respond to, and delete all videos
- Share the student view of a grid or topic so you can play videos on your projector
To view student videos:
- Open the grid where the topic lies
- Scroll to the topic you want to view and click on the title to open it
- Click on any student name to view their video
- Use the star to mark which videos you've viewed
To respond to student videos after viewing:
- Leave written feedback in the Comments area beside the video
- Click the Add Private Video Feedback button to record a video that is only viewable by the student
- Click on the green Reply button at the bottom of the video to record a video that is viewable by everyone in the class and follow the next steps
- Click the red Record button
- Record your response
- Click the green Next button and follow the steps
- Make sure to click Submit when you're finished!
- Click on the Edit tab (not the edit topic tab, but the edit tab that exists inside the teacher view of a student video)
- Leave a written Vibe for all students to see
To Delete student videos:
- Make sure you're in admin.flipgrid.com and NOT the student view of the videos
- Click on the Actions button beside any student video
- Select Delete Response
Make it exciting!
Disco Library-want to steal topics and ideas from other teachers in your content area? Take a look at the Disco Library for ideas!
Gridpals-want to be hooked up with a partner class to share ideas or to communicate on topics? Fill out the gridpals request and Flipgrid will do the matching!MixTapes-add your BEST student responses to show greatest hits from any topic! This is a great way to show student progress across a year or to organize videos sequentially to tell a story.
Vibes-leave a public response on student video so everyone on the grid can see!
Collaborate with other teachers-add co-pilots so you can collaborate with teachers in your PLC, other schools, other states, other countries...it's easy and FUN!
Appsmash-combine other apps with Flipgrid for maximum effect! Ex. Have students create chatterpix videos and upload them to a grid or have students create powerpoint screen recordings of their presentations and upload them to a grid--the possibilities are endless!
Spark Response-use a student video as a topic to spark responses from other students
Upload video from other people
Add Flipgrid to Teams-Add a Flipgrid tab to your Microsoft Teams so your grid is always embedded!