Faculty - Flipgrid: What is Flipgrid, Usage Suggestions, & Grading Limitations
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Faculty - What is Flipgrid, Usage Suggestions, & Grading Limitations
Flipgrid is the leading video discussion platform for millions of PreK to PhD educators, students, and families in 180+ countries. Create a Grid community for your classroom, school, PLC, #GridPals, families, and more!
Every student has a voice, so let’s amplify! Students record short, authentic videos and can reply to each other’s videos. Educators are 100% in control with video moderation, access controls, and much more.
How can it be used? Please see the suggestions below:
- Current & historical events
- Aha Moments
- Fluency & phonics
- Reflections
- Digital rehearsals and concerts
- Abstract Reasoning
- Final Project Showcase
- Virtual Art Show
- Persuasive writing and debates
- Peer Review
- Office Hours
- Socratic discussions
- Advisor check-ins
- Goal Setting
- Team Collaboration
- Showcases
- Course reviews
- Guest Speakers
- Introductions
- Expert Connections
- Study Groups
- Flipped Classroom
- Professional Collaboration
- Assignment Reviews
- Community Connections
If you are wishing to grade a Flipgrid discussion like you would a regular discussion board, you do have some limitations. Unlike Blackboard, Flipgrid does not collect all of a student's posts onto one screen for you to review and grade. Rather, you would have to manually search for and note where students' made a reply posts. If it is necessary and applicable in your classroom to grade both their initial post and replies, you could have each student post to a discussion board entitled "Flipgrid Replies" with the name(s) of the students they replied to during the Flipgrid discussion.
Don't forget to review the other Flipgrid knowledgebase resources to get started!