Tech Tools to Engage Your Audience: FlipGrid
FlipGrid is a fabulous
learning tool to allow folks to respond to prompts, for peers to respond to
each other's video responses, and for educators to give feedback.
Step 1: Sign Up
Click [here] to sign up with FlipGrid. It's in the top right-hand corner
and looks like this:
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Step 2: Create a Grid
Once you've made it to your
'homepage' you need to make a 'Grid'. Grids are ways to group-specific
topics/people who will be responding. You can think of separate grids are like
separate classes or separate content areas.
Step 2a: Create a Grid
Click on the 'Add New Grid'
button (pictured below)
-Decide what you'd like to
title it (think of class name, group name, etc. )
- Then decide how people will
be invited into this Grid.
- Share the link found below
this (pictured below), with those you'd like to join the Grid.
* If you keep it public it
might be wise to create a password otherwise anyone will have access to
entering and working in the Grid.
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Step 3: Create a Topic
Topics are a specific
prompt/question you want your audience/students to respond to.
Step 3a: Create a topic
Click on the 'Add New Topic'
(as pictured below)
- Think of a title and prompt for your students to respond to
- Change the maximum amount of
time a student can take to respond
*If you don't want students to
see each other's responses, click on the 'video moderation'
- If you'd like your students
to refer to a certain article, video, piece of work make sure to attach it here
(pictured below)!
- Set a time in which the
topic will open and then 'close' and be considered 'frozen' (view-only).
- Video Features allow you to
determine how students will respond, if they can attach other documents, allow
for students to respond to each other, and if they can like each other's
responses.
*Student-to-Student Replies is
a great feature that allows for students to give feedback, add on to other's
responses, etc.
- The Feedback feature allows
the educator/facilitator to give feedback based on a pre-created rubric made by
FlipGrid or you can create your own!
- Then click 'create'!
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Step 4: Share the Topic
- Click on the blue button 'share topic' (pictured below)
- Decide on the multiple ways you'd like to share this specific
topic with your participants! Remember, if they already are apart of the
Grid, they'll have access to this topic. However, this link will send them
directly to this topic.
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Step 5: Moderate Student Work + Give Feedback
- Once students have started
recording moderate their work by clicking on each of their responses to do a
plethora of interacting and giving feedback!
- You can respond with a video
by clicking on either icon pictured below
- You can highlight is as an
exemplar by clicking on the star (pictured below)
- You can show you 'liked' it
by clicking on the 'heart'
- You can grade it, based on
the rubric you chose
- You can also give written feedback.
- Click 'active' if you'd like
it to remain 'active' or be 'hidden'. Clicking the 'share' button allows you to
share the link to that student's work. 
- If you click on 'actions'
(pictured below) there is plentitude in what you could do
*Check out this FlipGrid [here], to get an idea of how it all works!
** Need extra support? Click [here].