Canvas Flipgrid Guide for ESL Instructors

Contents Section 1: Creating an Educator Account

Section 2: Setting up Flipgrid to Use with Canvas

Section 3: Making an Assignment

Section 4: Grading Assignments

Section 1: Creating an Educator Account

1. Go to flipgrid.com and select Educator signup. Sign up using an existing

Google or Microsoft account.

2. Note: Students do not need to create accounts for Flipgrid. Only teachers

need accounts. Students will access the Grid through Assignments in

Canvas.

3. From now on, you will log in to your account using “Educator Login.”

Section 2: Setting up Flipgrid to Use with

Canvas

1. Log in to Canvas and open the course you want to use Flipgrid with.

2. Go to settings. Click on Apps. Enter “Flipgrid” in the search box. Click on

the Flipgrid logo.

3. Click on “Add App.” A window will pop up asking you for a Consumer

Key and a Shared Secret. We’re going to copy these from Flipgrid in the

next steps.

4. Open a new tab or window in your browser, and go to

flipgrid.com and log in to your educator account.

5. In the top right corner of your screen, click on your name, and then

choose “Integrations.”

6. Click “Add New Integration” and enter the name of your class.

Note: This name is for your reference only.

Flipgrid will then generate a Consumer Key and a Shared Secret.

7. Copy the Consumer Key and Shared Secret into Canvas (see photo in

Step 3 of this section).

8. Click “Add App.” You should get a quick notification saying the app was

successfully added.

9. Refresh your Canvas page. You should now see Flipgrid in the menu on

the left.

10. Click on Flipgrid in the menu. You will see a message to connect

Flipgrid to Canvas. Click on “Create a Course Grid.” Canvas will generate

your Grid.

11. Click the Settings option in your course sidebar. Then select the

Navigation tab. Drag the Flipgrid item down to the Disabled Links area.

(This will force students to use Assignments to access Flipgrid, so their

responses show up in Speedgrader). Hit Save.

Great job! You’ve successfully connected Flipgrid to Canvas! Continue to

Section 4 to learn how to create your first assignment!

Section 3: Making an Assignment

1. Open up a new assignment in Canvas.

2. Fill in the Assignments settings as usual, including Assignment Name,

Points, Due Dates, etc. For Submission Type, select “External Tool.”

Then click “Find” and search for Flipgrid. Then click “Select.” Canvas

will enter the necessary URL for you. Make sure you check the box that

says, “Load This Tool In A New Tab.”

3. Save and Publish your assignment as normal. Then go back to your

educator account in Flipgrid to adjust the Topic settings over there.

4. From your educator account click on your class (Grid), and then click on

the assignment (Topic) you just created. From the Topic Details page,

click the pencil icon to edit.

5. You will be taken to a new page where you can customize the settings for

your assignment. Make sure to click on the “More Options” at the

bottom of the page to see all the available settings.

6. Make sure to click the red button that says “Create Topic” or “Update

Topic” after you finish with the Assignment Settings.

Assignment Settings

Topic Title: This is the assignment title that your students will see

Recording Time: Set a maximum time for your assignment (up to 5

minutes). There is no way to set a minimum recording time for your

students.

Prompt: You can use this space to give instructions for your assignment.

Focus: Add a picture, video, or other resource to your assignment. You

can only have one focus item per assignment.

Optional Settings:

Topic Tip: A short featured note to your students (Example: Smile,

Speak slowly, 30 seconds minimum, etc.)

Topic Attachments: Despite the name, you cannot attach files. If you

have a file hosted online (in Google Drive, for example), you can include

a link to the file here.

Topic Status

• Video Moderation: Enable this if you want your student videos to

remain private. If you don’t enable this setting, students will be

able to view each other’s videos immediately after they are posted.

If you enable video moderation, you will need to “activate” student

videos before other students can see them.

• Student-to-Student Replies: This allows students to send video

replies to each other’s responses.

• Status: Flipgrid Topics can have three statuses: Active, Frozen, and

Hidden.

o Active: The Topic is open, and students can submit

responses

o Frozen: The Topic is in a view-only mode. Students can see

videos that have already been submitted, but they cannot

make new submissions.

o Hidden: Only the teacher can see the Topic and its

responses.

• Launch and Freeze Dates: You can set your Topic to Freeze

automatically here. You could also push back the Launch date, so

that the Topic will remain Hidden until you are ready for students

to see it.

Video Features

• Video and Selfie Styles: Choose whether you would like students to be able to use their front-facing camera, rear-facing camera, or

both.

• Video Editing: When enabled, this allows students to trim the

beginning or end of their video. Most students won’t realize they

have this option, but tech-savvy students may appreciate it.

• Video title: When enabled, this allows students to add a title to

their video. Unless you want to require a title, it is recommended

that you disable this setting.

• Attachment Link: When enabled, this allows students to add a link

to an online file. Unless you want to require a file link, it is

recommended that you disable this setting.

• View Count: Display the number of views a video has received.

• Likes: Allow students to “like” other students’ videos.

• Sticky Notes: When enabled, this allows students to make notes

before they record, and view the notes on the screen while they are

recording. The notes are not visible in the finished video and are

not saved after the student finishes recording.

Feedback: Here you can choose between Flipgrid’s default rubric (Basic

Feedback) and your own custom rubric (Custom Feedback). If you plan

to grade in Speedgrader in Canvas, this may not use this feedback

feature at all.

Continue to the next page for more details.

To create your own rubric, click on Custom Feedback and then Add

Criteria. Fill in the Title, Description, and Minimum and Maximum

Scores. Here’s an example:

After you create a criteria, it will always be available to you in future

assignments. You can check the boxes next to your previous criteria to

select which ones will be used for this assignment.

Section 4: Grading Assignments

Using Canvas Speedgrader You can grade Flipgrid assignments in Speedgrader and the scores will be

automatically entered into your Gradebook.

You can also grade the assignments in Flipgrid through your Educator

account. This allows you to take advantage of a lot of the special features

Flipgrid offers, but you will have to manually transfer your scores into your

Canvas gradebook.

Using Flipgrid Grading Important: Using Flipgrid grading allows you to make use of the custom

rubrics, but you will need to manually enter the scores into your Canvas

gradebook.

1. From your educator account click on your class (Grid), and then click on

the assignment (Topic) you want to grade. From the Topic Details page,

click on a student submission.

2. Here’s what the grading view looks like:

1. Here you can assign values to each of your rubric criteria.

2. Here you can add comments for the student.

3. If you want to leave video feedback for the student, you can do that

here. This video will only be available to this student.

4. If you want to leave video feedback that the whole class can see, you

can do that here.

5. Click on edit to change the student’s display name or email address

(important if you plan to send feedback via email).

6. Here you will see that there are three ways for students to receive

your feedback.

• They can visit my.flipgrid.com if they have made an account.

This method is not recommended.

• You can copy a link to the feedback and send it to the student

(in Remind, for example).

• You can email the feedback to the student using the email

address shown on the Edit view (#5).

Note: It’s a little hard to see, but the orange arrow and circle are pointing to

a small white arrow. You can click on that arrow to easily move forward to

the next student.