How to use Flipgrid to send out a personalized video to your students/families.

If you are interested in sharing a video with your students/families, a great site to use for this would be Flipgrid. 

You can create a video anywhere from 15 seconds to 10 minutes and while you can use Flipgrid with your class to respond, you do not have to.

A few quick tips.

• Log in to Flipgrid 
• Go through the steps of creating your Grid
• name it whatever works for you
• You will now need to create your topic
• Name the topic what you would like
• Look to the right and select anywhere from 15 seconds to 10 minutes
• Type in whatever you need for the prompt (in the example below I just used hi because no-one but you will see the information in the Grid or topic)
• Make sure to then select create topic
• A pop up will occur letting you know that your topic has been created.
• You can close that pop-up and scroll down and look for record a response.
• Choose the green +
• Record your response
• click the arrow when previewing the video
• take a selfie
• rename your name (if applicable)
• Select Submit video and then complete
• You will now see the ability to send the video (look for a rocket - see below)

• Choose the rocket, copy the URL, I recommend openning an Incognito Window and pasting it in there (this shows what the video would look like for someone like a family member).
• You are now ready to share the video where you would like to.
• Of course there are so many uses for Flipgrid, but this is a great way to start! 


Embedded below is a 2 minute and 5 second YouTube tutorial.




Take care,
Brad