Flip!


Video response app with all kinds of possibilities!

Flip brings text-based discussions to the next level! Students and teachers can create videos about a specific topic. It allows learners of all ages to find their voices.

Using Flip, students can build and strengthen their learning communities as they discuss their ideas and experiences with their peers. Teachers can pose questions called "topics," and receive video responses from students that appear in a tiled grid. Teachers can monitor and chose which video responses can be viewed by other students.

How to use Flip...Teachers:

  1. Go to: https://auth.flipgrid.com/signin
  2. Click Continue with Google
  3. Choose your School Email address
  4. Enter in your Birthday and Country (United States is at the top), then click Next

  5. From here, you can create a video - webcam only, screen only, or both by clicking on Camera in the top right or you can make a group for class by clicking on +Group. 

  6. When you click on +Group, you need to give the group a name and you can change the theme. This is also a good time to identify who can join the group and how you are going to add members. Luckily, Flip plays nicely with Google Classroom.
  7. Once you click save, you will be brought to your group. Now you can start adding in topics. A generic topic will be added for you, but you can delete that by click on the three dots (...) to the right of the topic and select Delete Topic.
  8. When you add in a topic you will want to give it a good title and description. If this is a project, then this is a good area to include the project requirements. You can also add in topic media. Either a video that you created, a YouTube or Vimeo (stick with YouTube videos), a picture, a bitmoji, or another attachment. This is also where you set the recording time (anywhere from 15 seconds to 10 minutes).
  9. Before you click Post Topic, go to the settings page (gear at the top right). Here is where you can set some parameters such as allowing comments on the videos (they can be video, text, or both) and the start and stop time for the topics. In the Response section, you can allow attachments, likes on the videos, display view count, allow downloads and sharing. Under the Camera section, you can choose different features for the students to be able to add (or not) to the videos.
  10. Once the topic is saved you will be given the option to either post the link or click on Google Classroom icon and share to your Google Classroom.