1- Create a Flipgrid Group for your class
- Email and school domain: only those with approved emails can join
- Google Classroom: Import Google Classroom roster and allow students to easily access your Group using their Google Classroom account.
- Username: Assign students specific usernames and use these usernames to invite them to join the Group.
2- Share your Group with students
3- Create Topics
Recording video responses using Flipgrid Camera
- Upload clip: students can upload clips to add to their Flipgrid recordings.
- Mic only: Students can record their responses using only audio.
- Mirror video: “Flip the camera – this is helpful for showing books and text that appear backwards.”
- Record screen: This feature works only on Edge and Chrome and allows students to share their screen. This is especially helpful when sharing presentations and digital content.
- Filters: Apply various fun filters to the camera such as rainbow, pixel, black and white and many more.
- Text: Annotate your recording with text .
- Board: Showcase your ideas using different boards including a whiteboard, chalkboard, graph paper and more.
- Stickers and GIFs: Use Flipgrid’s library to add emojis and GIFs to recorded videos.
- Backdrops: “With backdrops, you have more control over what you would like to share, and you can focus the viewer’s attention on what you’re saying and doing, not what is happening behind you!”
- Music: Students can add music tracks directly from within the Flipgrid app.
Mixtapes
Discovery library
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Featured collections is a section where you can find Topics aggregated by theme. For instance, there are collections on indigenous heritage month, coding and computer science, digital citizenship, mental health awareness, social and emotional learning, and many more.