Flipgrid

Flipgrid provides a simple way for teachers and students to continue classroom conversations by assigning questions as homework assignments. Pose questions that spark thoughtful video responses. Students are then able to plan out and record short video responses to prompts from the teacher. The 'grid' is a way to collect a range of student responses on a single topic.

Getting Started with Flipgrid, Educator Edition

Additional Flipgrid Introductions Video:

Getting Started with Flipgrid (Training Session)

Getting Stated with Flipgrid for Remote Learning and Beyond

Getting Started with Flipgrid, Student Edition

The basics of editing Grids, editing Topics, and watching student videos.

Joe and Kristen Merrill share the fundamental feature of AppSmashing on Flipgrid: importing a video!

Provide written, video, and rubric feedback; Kristen and Joe show you how to create and share!

Do's & Dont's of Flipgrid

• Do follow school policies around using the application an sharing with other schools

• Do clean up the student content when you no longer need it or if you leave your school mid -year.

• Do comply with any student requests to take down Flipgrid content.

• Do let students know that the tool is for educational purposes only.

• Don’t share student information outside the classroom or the school.

• Don’t use Flipgrid to request students to buy things (for example, don’t encourage them to use Amazon to buy a book or download a paid app).

Response Format

Once a teacher creates a class grid, they can post a discussion question for the class. Students then respond with short, recorded responses (90 second limit). Students can add:

a title
one linked file
stickers to their videos

Student Interaction

The grid functions as a message board where students can watch their peers' video responses as they appear in a shared display. Flipgrid emphasizes social features, with student-to-student replies and custom reactions, similar to Instagram and Snapchat.

Sharing Videos with Families

Teachers can share student videos with families through a private link. Family members can view the teacher's topic prompt, watch their student’s response, and download the video. There's even an option to invite family members to participate in Grids, the discussion-style questions.

Support

Provides extensive teacher tools, from instructional videos to full walk-throughs of how to use the site for a variety of subject areas (including STEAM and physical education). Teachers can also use Flipgrid's Topic Discovery Library and filter by subject and age to search thousands of Topic templates shared by other educators.

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