Flipgrid is an engaging social learning tool that allows students to video record responses and share them to a class discussion board, or grid. Flipgrid provides exciting opportunities to build a classroom community with teacher prompts, student posts, responses, and other safe and positive social media elements. Flipgrid integration in Passport means students can practice speaking, hold discussions, and reflect on their learning anytime, anywhere. Students also benefit from seeing other learners who may look and sound like them as well as those who are different from them. Building student confidence, giving each student a voice, and providing a space for students to listen is our main goal with Flipgrid activities in Passport.
1. To locate your Flipgrid in Passport: Click on the Resources page in a teacher or student account and click Flipgrid.
2. This will show the grid of all topic responses for a class. A grid is automatically created for each of your courses in Passport. Students automatically have a Flipgrid account once they are registered in Passport. There is no need to access Flipgrid outside of Passport.
3. If you want to assign a Flipgrid Activity to your students, you must first find and create that activity through the Assignment Library or from your Assign Cart. Mirrors and Windows contains Flipgrip questions at the beginning and ending of each textbook selection.
4. When you assign an activity, it will automatically create the topic in the class grid in Flipgrid. In Passport, the Flipgrid assignment icon is a white arrow "play button" on a lime green background.
5. Once a Flipgrid Activity has been created and assigned, any changes or edits must be made in Flipgrid from your Resources tab.
After their teacher assigns a Flipgrid activity, students will be able to record videos ranging from 15 seconds to 10 minutes. Flipgrid features allow students to capture widescreen videos, pause while recording, add more after reviewing, trim to perfect their video, and erase and begin again an unlimited number of times. When finished, students take a picture to be displayed along with their response and are able to add fun stickers and emojis. Passport creates a grid community for your classroom so students can reply to each other’s videos.
Flipgrid provides critical discussion opportunities and interaction for all learners in a low-pressure, familiar environment. Students who may not be confident speaking in class have an opportunity to shine by recording where and when they are comfortable. Students can go to the grid in Passport and watch videos that others have submitted before submitting their own. Students can respond to teacher prompts within their Passport accounts from laptops, Chromebooks, or Surface devices. Students who want to work from their iPhone, iPad, or Android device install the Flipgrid app and continue to access prompts from their Passport account.
Flipgrid allows teachers to see how all of their students are progressing at any given moment, not just the few they can call on in class or listen to during an activity. Flipgrid also has great features for teachers:
Record video prompts or include specialized resources, links, attachments, and photos in topics
Use video moderation and access controls
Disco Library: share or discover topic templates from the Flipgrid community to use in your own grids
MixTapes: build a playlist to showcase student work
#GridPals: make connections with other educators to allow students to collaborate—even go global!
Shorts: share short video snippets
For more information on Flipgrid capabilities visit www.flipgrid.com .
Assign Flipgrid activities in Passport to spark students’ conversation and interaction while they practice their interpersonal and presentational speaking skills.
Provide feedback and scores to students to help them improve and give them credit for their practice, discussion, and reflection.
We recommend using Flipgrid for formative assessment that focuses on content and developing skills or for capturing student creativity through projects.
Some uses of Flipgrid for English students include responding to Mirrors and Windows discussion questions, reflecting on literature and other students' responses, providing opinions or reactions to material, summarizing articles or videos, conducting surveys or interviews, recording conversations, performing role-plays, delivering speeches, creating chain stories, or anything at all that gets students speaking!
