Flipgrid Fever at Emporia State

Flipgrid is a platform that allows teachers and students to record and post “grids” of videos to discuss, share, and collaborate.

Things to know about Flipgrid+Canvas:

• Only students in your Canvas course have access to your shared grids.
• Flipgrid can be used as an assignment submission tool in Canvas. Make sure student submit their videos through the assignment submission tab. All videos and responses can be seen in the SpeedGrader and ready to be graded.

Go to flipgrid.com to create your account! 

1. Click “Educator Login” or “Sign up today” to sign up. Make sure you sign up as an educator/teacher.
2. Click your user account (at top right corner) one time, select “Integrations”.
3. Click “+ New Integration” to set up the connections with your Canvas account.
4. Create a name for the integration. For Example, Dr. Hornet’s Course. Then click “Create”
5. You will be provide a Consumer Key and a Shared Secret for your integration. Leave the webpage open, then go to the Canvas course that you want to integrate Flipgrid in.
6. In Canvas course, Go to “Settings” in the left hand navigation menu, then click “Apps”, search “Flipgrid”.
7. Click the Flipgrid logo, then click “+ Add App”. Copy and paste the Consumer Key and the Shared Secret from the webpage (Step 5) to the window. Then click “Add App”.
8. Find and Click “Flipgrid” in the left navigation menu, then click “Create a Course Grid”.
9. Now there are two ways to add New topics.
10. Click the “+New Topic”. So when student entered the Flipgrid page, they can see and response to the topic.
11. We can also add it as an assignment, so students can submit an assignment by record a video with Flipgird. Also, the submission will be automatically sent to Speedgrader for the instructor to grade.
12. For the “Submission Type” pull down menu, select “External Tool”. Then click “Find”.
13. Find and select “Flipgrid” in the list. Then save and publish the assignment.
14. Go back to all assignments, you will see that students can submit the Flipgrid videos.
15. Now Students can simply click the green plus button to record and submit their videos.

Integrating Flipgrid can really transform your ordinary discussions into extraordinary! Contact me for help!

~Anna

Anna is the Educational Technology Coordinator for Emporia State University. She can be reached at acatters@emporia.edu or by phone 620.341.5107.

Collaborative Websites

Looking for an engaging way to improve your class discussions?  Then check out these products:

Google Docs

Google Docs can be used to create an assignment in Canvas where students can edit and annotate a single document with multiple users at the same time.  Users can see who adds which comments and it automatically saves the progress.

Google Docs can also be used to supply a template by the instructor in Canvas.  The students then create their own document in their Google Drive, edit and revise it; then submit the new document back to Canvas which can be graded with SpeedGrader.

FlipGrid

FlipGrid is best used as an external tool in Canvas.  Students can create short video clips of themselves with their smartphones or laptop and watch their classmates videos.  They can add feedback to videos and have a more personal collaborative experience.

VoiceThread

VoiceThread allows for multiple ways to collaborate on a slide (photo or video).  Students can upload selfie videos or screencasts, or just add an audio comment or text annotation.  VoiceThread’s free version does not work with a Canvas external tool but can be embedded into an assignment or content page.

Check out our Zoom Professional Development on this topic on our website, www.emporia.edu/learningtechnologies, click the Events button.