What is a FlipGrid?

FlipGrid is a free educational platform used to create and share short videos. Users create videos around topics, then upload those videos to a ‘Grid’ for sharing, feedback, and topic-based response videos. 

Why Use FlipGrid?

FlipGrid gives every student a voice, inspires creativity, encourages collaboration, fosters critical thinking, is interdisciplinary, and builds communication skills.

Creating a FlipGrid

Create a Grid

A Grid is the “home” for your class. Create one for each of your classes. You can create as many Grids as you want and within your Grid you can post unlimited discussion prompts called Topics. Share the Grid’s FlipCode or URL with your students so that they can join and see the discussion topics you have added. 

Create a Topic and add resources

Topics are the stimulus for conversation, such as a discussion question or prompt. Add Topics to your Grid any time you want to start a new discussion with your students. Within your Topic you can include anything you would like your students to reference, such as videos, links, GIFs, and emoji, prior to recording a video response. The Discovery Library has thousands of age- and subject-specific Topic prompts that you can add to your Grid. 

Share with students

Sharing of your completed Grid can be done via code or link shared to Google Classroom. Students join using their Trinity email. Once shared, begin collecting videos from your students on your Topic. 

Recording a Video

Once in a Grid, students click on the Green Plus symbol to record.

• Record a Video: Students can pause, draw on a whiteboard, or add stickers.
• Review or Edit the Video: Students can trim video and rearrange clips.
• Take a Selfie: Students can customize the image to add style, and then add their name and a title.
• Attach a File: Students can add a link to a Google Doc or web article.
• Custom Videos: Students can add their own custom videos created in iMovie, Adobe Spark, or other apps.

Providing Student Feedback

It is easy to provide students with feedback from you. Just click on a student's response in the Educator Dashboard to provide private feedback to that student.

Helping Camera-Shy Students

Record in Groups

Have students record with their classmates to make it fun and not all about one student. Encourage them to use props and costumes.

Flip the Camera

Have students record something else rather than talk about themselves. This is great for science experiments, narrating a process, foreign language vocabulary, etc.

Settings

Use the Moderator setting to make videos visible to only the instructor and not other students. Use audio-only responses until students are comfortable with the recording process.

Ways to Use in Your Classroom

• Debate a topic
• Show what you know
• Book review or book talk
• Reflect on a reading
• Exit ticket
• Reflect on a lesson or unit
• Solve a math problem
• Narrate a science experiment
• Practice a foreign language
• Goal setting and reflection
• End-of-semester reflections
• Practice a musical piece
• Demonstrate a skill
• Interpret a work of art
• Peer review

More Information

• See the attached in-depth PDF