Instructions
Signing Up
- Navigate to flipgrid.com.
- Click the sign-up button in the upper right-hand corner.
- Under the educators tab, click Sign Up with Google.
- Choose your Boise State Google account. This will automate signing into the platform.
- Fill out the required demographic information. This is for Flipgrid's purposes only.
Creating a Grid
- You will be redirected to a landing page. Choose + New Grid.
- The sharing options are up to the user, but we would suggest School Email Domain to both preserve privacy and prevent complications.
- If you choose School Email Domain, add both the boisestate.edu and u.boisestate.edu domains.
- Give your grid a name.
- If you wish, customize the URL of your grid and its personalized photo. Neither are required to be customized.
Creating Topics
- 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.
- If you wish to create a new topic, click + New Topics.
- 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 more.
- When you have customized to your liking, click Create Topic.
Having Students Reply
- To share the grid with students, you can either copy the URL or embed it in your Blackboard course.
- To share the code, simply copy the Flipgrid code/URL (flipgrid.com followed by a 6-7 character string).
- To embed it in your course, click on Share, then the Copy Embed Code symbol at the bottom of the pop-up.
- To continue embedding, open a Blackboard content item, switch to HTML view, then paste the item.
- Once linked, 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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