Floop
Floop is a browser-based tool that eases the process of providing students with digital, interactive feedback on their paper-based assignments and it’s available on all platforms. With Floop, students can submit their assignments by snapping a photo of their worksheet or document and uploading it online. Teachers and classmates can post comments and mark-up a student’s document digitally. Students can see and respond to feedback instantly or ask questions privately in order to enhance their learning.
Learning Activities
- Math
Students can submit math worksheets, sketchnotes related to a math topic, or even paper-based infographics featuring data about a topic of interest, and provide feedback on their peers’ submissions.
- Science
Students can submit diagrams or images of science experiments or pages from their science journals. Students can also leave certain aspects of their diagram blank and have their classmates fill in the blank through the comments feature.
- English/Language Arts
Students can submit hand-drawn movie posters for a book, annotated maps that visualize the movement of a character in a story, or a photos of a hand-made art project representing a scene from a book.
- History/Social Studies
Students can submit drawings that represent an important historic event/figure, maps that visualize a series of events of a historical point in time, and sketches of scenes from certain a historical figure’s life.
- Other
Teachers can post a study guide as an assignment to the whole class. Students can print out and annotate the study guide, snap a photo, and send it back to the teacher to provide clarification and feedback.
How to Use Floop
Go to: https://www.floopedu.com.
Click “Sign Up” to create an account.
Click on “Dashboard.”
Click on “Create New Class.”
Fill out class name, class section, and note if there are students under 13 in your class.
You will be given an access code to allow students to enroll in your class.
For students who are 13 years or older, give the access code assigned to your class to your students and let them create an account with your specific access code.
For students under the age of 13, you will need to get consent from the school or district before allowing them to sign up for an account.
When you click on the tabs for each class, you can see the assignments, the students who are enrolled, and a setting tab on the left. The settings tab will allow you to change the name and/or section of the class, along with the option to delete the class.
To create an assignment, click on the “+” button in the upper left next to the assignments tab.
Assignment: Choose the classes and due date. Give the assignment a name and a description (optional).
The dashboard shows the assignments posted in each class, the details of the assignments, all the submissions, the peer reviews, and the feedback is given/received. There is the option in the upper right to either edit or delete the assignment.
You can add assignments as needed throughout the academic school year.