A Teachers Guide to Flipgrid

What is Flipgrid?

Flipgrid is a free, education-focused platform to create and share short videos. Users/teachers
create videos around topics, then upload those videos to a ‘Grid’ for sharing, feedback, and
topic-based ‘response videos.

Flipgrids Topics vs Grids

Topics are what they sound like they’d be: prompts or discussion questions.
Grids are like classrooms or learning communities.
The former is what the videos are about while the latter is where they’re shared and who
they’re shared to and with.

Using Topics in Flipgrid

From Flipgrid’s help section: “Topics can simply be text-based or include a resource such as
image, video, giphy, emoji, and attachment. Check out the Topic Discovery Library to find
ready-made topics and add to the Grid. All educators can add unlimited Topics to their
Grids. Sharing a Grid with someone will give them access to everything on the Grid.”

In Disco Library you can find thousands of topics made by teachers of varying grades that
you can use/share on your classroom grid. These are not necessarily all videos but pictures
with home challenges. This is an amazing resource!!!

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Using the Grids in Flipgrid

The primary structure of Flipgrid is the Grids themselves. Grids are like groups–you can create
one for a class, a school or district and ‘close’ them or make it open and ‘global.’ You can
create Grids via the following methods and community types:
1. School Email where students join the Grid using their Microsoft or Google school email
2. Student ID where you create a list of student IDs to join your Grid (not in the European
Union)
3. PLCs & Public where you share your Grid with the public or some other ‘closed circuit’
group.

What Are Flipgrid’s Others Features?

Acquired by Microsoft in June 2018, Flipgrid has a variety of features that make it a useful tool
for teaching and learning, including video downloads, video feedback options, stickers and
drawings for videos, custom assessment rubrics, video feedback, MixTapes, topic
invites, private share links, Vibes, and more–including:

1. A discovery library where educators share topics for a variety of grade levels and
content areas.
2. Video Format including back-to-school intros, book talks, reflections, expert Q&As,
showcase STEAM ideas and more. Students can use their natural voice to verbalize and
share the process of learning and reflection or simply what they believe they already
know and understand.
3. Privacy features that allow students reply to each other’s videos while educators are
in control with video moderation, access controls, and more.
4. Camera and editing options that allow students to capture widescreen videos, pause
while recording, add more after reviewing, and trim.
5. ‘Any platform access’ so students can share anywhere by using any Surface,
Chromebook, laptop, iPad, iPhone, or Android device. (There is also an app for
Windows 10.)

For more detailed information, check out the google doc link below for The Educators Guide
to Flipgrid.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BzZGEfOtEWqPcGUzcFd2RzRjYTQ/view

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 How To Set Up Fiipgrid on Teams

1. Open your classroom Teams site and look at the bar Click on the + button to
across the top of your page. add an app/tab for
Flipgrid.

This is what it will look like

once you have set it up.

2. Click on Flipgrid icon.

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 Click on Create an Account

Click on Microsoft Login

and login with your school
login username and
password.

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Create the
You can
name of
change
your Grid
your code
(classroom)
if you like
here.
here, but
through
Teams
they don’t
need this.
Chose
School
Email as
they will
already Enter
have this school
login domain
information after the @
for Teams. symbol as
shown
here.

Choose the features you want for your grid which is up to you. When initially setting up you
may want to keep in a Hidden state until you are ready to share with your class.

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Last step to set up your grid is to personalize which you can choose to upload an image or
use one of their images.

Once finished creating your grid you can add your first topic.

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 This is
where you
can set a
Create a time limit
title for for your
your topic. student’s
responses.

Either add Here you

challenge can add a
here or a variety of
short recap ways to
of video present
instructions. your topic.
In Flipgrid E.g. video,
this has the YouTube
option of video,
text-to- image,
speech for emoji, etc.
the students.

You can either press Create Topic

or press More Options to set
restrictions up or more features.

Once finished, open up Flipgrid in Teams and press the down arrow beside the Flipgrid tab
and then click on Settings.

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 Last Step!

You then have to add your

Flipgrid URL and press save.
This you can find under My
Grids in your Flipgrid account
and then pressing the Share
button with your topic.

ALL DONE! Happy Sharing!

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