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1. Navigate to flipgrid.com.

2. Click thesign Educator Sign-up button in the upper right-hand corner.

3. Under the educators tab, click Sign Up with Google. 

4. Choose your Boise State Google account. This will automate signing into the platform.

5. Fill out the required demographic information. This is for Flipgrid's purposes only.

Creating a Grida Group

1. You will be redirected to a landing page. Choose + New Grid Create a Group. 

2. The sharing options are up to the user, but we would suggest School Email Domain to both preserve privacy and prevent complications.

3. If you choose School Email Domain, add both the boisestate.edu and u.boisestate.edu domains.

4. Give your grid a name.

5. If you wish, customize the URL of your grid and its personalized photo. Neither are required to be customized.

Creating Topics

1. By default, Flipgrid will create an Introductions topic where students can post intro videos. You can choose to use this for your course, or delete it.

2. If you wish to create a new topic, click + New Topics. 

3. You will be guided through required and optional fields, where you can add a title and description, customize the response time limit, display date, moderation, add a starter video, and moreGive the group a name and choose Public or Private.

4. Edit the Join Code if desired.

5. Under Add Students, choose Student Email.

6. Type @boisestate.edu, @u.boisestate.edu into the email field.

7. Click Next.

8. If you have Topics you would like to duplicate (e.g. from prior classes), you can do that now. Otherwise, click Skip for Now.

9. Copy the Join Code and paste it somewhere to be shared with your students – e.g. in Blackboard, Canvas, or an email.

10. Click Go to Group to visit the group, check settings, create topics, get the join code, and more.

Creating Topics

1. While on the page for a group, click Add a Topic.

2. Give your topic a Title and Prompt.

3. Select the allowed recording time (between 15 seconds and 10 minutes).

4. Check the language for Closed Captions.

5. There are additional options to customize if desired such as moderation, media, feedback, and more. Select More Options for advanced configuration options.

6. When you have customized to your liking, click Create Topic. 

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1. You can share the link to the Topic directly with your students if desired, or they can simply use the link for the Group and navigate to the Topic from there.

Sharing the Group

To share the grid with students, you can either copy the URL or embed the grid in your Blackboard course site. 

1. To share the code, simply copy the Flipgrid code/URL , navigate to the Group page and click on Share.

2. Under Share this Group, Copy the Join Code link (flipgrid.com followed by a 6-7 character string) and paste to email .

3. Paste this link to Blackboard, email, or anywhere else a student can find it.

OR

1. To embed it the group in your course, navigate to the Group page and click on Share, then the Copy Embed Code symbol at the bottom of the pop-up.

2. Scroll over the embed code symbol (< / > ) to click on Copy Embed Code.

   1. To continue embedding, open a Blackboard content item, switch to HTML view, then paste the item.

   Once linked or embedded, students can then reply to your initial topic/video, and also reply to other students' videos in a threaded video discussion.

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