>> Flipgrid: where social learning happens.
Hello, folks.
My name is Nick Zingo, and I am a faculty member
in the Department of Criminal Justice.
And the purpose of this video is to explain
in detail the proper protocol for integrating Flipgrid
into your Canvas learning management system.
First a little background.
Flipgrid is a video discussion platform
for social learning as it is built.
Its history is Microsoft recently acquired Flipgrid.
And fortunately, Microsoft has made Flipgrid free
for all schools and faculty members like ourselves.
In that we have access to all the advanced features
of Flipgrid and that is a good thing.
Flipgrid allows students to discuss and reply to topics
or your assignments with videoclips.
From wherever they're at as long
as they have [clears throat] excuse me.
As long as they have a digital device that has access
to the internet and a camera.
We know that today, everybody has access to a digital device.
Usually identified as a cell phone.
So the reason for this video is as you may know,
Flipgrid has several online manuals discussing how
to use it.
But those manuals while not inaccurate are not applicable
to the integration with Canvas.
Hence, the purpose of this video.
Now before we begin,
just a couple things I want you to take note of.
Alright? And this will make your life a lot easier.
For each course that you teach
that you're going to use Flipgrid in.
Remember each course gets its own grid.
Think of a grid as a course.
So let's say for example you're teaching let's say introduction
to psychology, biological anthropology, business law,
communications studies.
What is that?
Four courses?
That means four grids.
So simply think of a grid as a course.
The next thing I would like you to take note of is
that for each college that you teach at, you only need one set
of keys for that college.
A set of keys are comprised of a consumer key and a secret key
which will make more sense later if you're not aware
of that, of what that is.
And the next thing is remember that a grid
or grid details is different than topic details.
That is important as well.
A grid is the course or course details.
And the topic really is nothing more than the assignment
that you have assigned to your students.
So with that in mind, let us start.
And let's talk about signing up for Flipgrid.
If you haven't already, go to Flipgrid.com.
And you should see a page
that hopefully looks something like this.
And if you have not registered as a educator,
then in the upper-right corner where it says, "Sign up today,"
sign in, register as an educator.
Upon doing that, enter.
As an educator.
Log in. And you will see a page
that looks somewhat similar to this.
And in the right corner, you will see the name
that you have signed up under.
And you will see a down arrow here.
Click the down arrow, and you will see a series
of four options.
You want to select the second option which is integrations.
Upon picking integrations, you will see on the left side
of your screen, the blue box that's,
that says plus unigration.
Click that box.
You will now see Canvas,
create Canvas integration, identified by name.
For the purpose of this video, mine will be Moorpark College.
You can name it whatever you want, really.
Create, lower right corner, the blue square, if you will.
And here's your Canvas keys.
As you notice, second one down,
because I also teach at the CSUN.
Is Moorpark College, and you'll see this is your consumer key.
And on the right-side of the screen is the shared,
the shared secret key.
Or the key that actually is a series of dots.
Now Flipgrid has asked that when we copy this key,
that we do not highlight and then copy.
But rather that we use the copy feature
that they have provided to us.
And that is the blue square to the right
of this very lengthy number that looks
like a very long serial number.
So you copy that and we'll be back
for the shared secret key in a moment.
So let us now proceed to our dashboard.
And select the course that you would
like to integrate Flipgrid in.
I'm going to select Anatomy of a Murder.
Click that.
And let me pause here a moment.
Hopefully at this point,
you have not already experimented possibly with,
with Flipgrid and maybe got jammed up.
And that's why you're watching this video.
If you have, please see the other video I made
which is only a couple minutes long.
That talks about how to completely remove Flipgrid
from your course so that you can start over
or start clean, as it were, alright?
If you've done that, then we're good to go.
So let's navigate down on the left-hand side
of the menu options to settings.
Let us now go to apps.
As you can see the five tabs above here.
And then this will populate with the applications
that we are allowed to use in Canvas.
And you can either scroll
down to pick Flipgrid or filtered by name.
Start typing it, Flipgrid will pop up.
And on the left-hand side you will see the green
Flipgrid banner.
Click that.
Now click the blue square on the left-hand side of the screen.
Plus ad app, and you will see a place to put
that consumer key we discussed and a place
to put the secret key.
Or what they call a shared secret tea.
Now we've already copied the consumer key,
so let's do a paste.
Let's go back to Flipgrid which I have left open on the screen.
Oh, let's see.
Here it is.
Oh, let's close out this other, folks.
And let's see, shared secret key, Moorpark, copy.
Okay, add app, lower right corner.
Blue square.
Okay. Now, refresh your screen wherever your refresh button
might be, depending on whether you're using a PC or a Mac.
And you will see on the navigation menu
that Flipgrid is at the bottom.
And Flipgrid is also visible on the left-side
of the menu of Canvas.
Now Flipgrid, their developers have recommended
that we remove Flipgrid from the visible menu
so the students cannot access it.
And you either drag it or use the edit function
to the right and disable it.
Which does the same thing.
It simply moves it down here to hide it from the students.
The reason for that is is that if Flipgrid is
on the left-hand side over here.
As we know, anything that is not grayed
out is visible to the students.
The reason for that is
if a student should click Flipgrid here,
it will take them outside of Canvas
and into the Flipgrid application.
And yes, they will be able
to add videos outside of the application.
But the problem is they won't show
in Canvas in your assignment.
So hence the reason why we should drag it down here
to hide it from the students.
And then something I know I always forget is let's not,
or I should say let's remember to hit the blue Save button
on the left-hand side of the menu down below.
And then once again, refresh your screen.
Doublecheck that Flipgrid is no longer visible to the students.
Now let's go in and let's create that assignment.
So let's go to assignments.
Go over here to plus assignment.
Give your assignment a name for the purpose of this video.
I'm going to design my introductory assignment
for the student introducing themselves.
And for the time being, I'm simply going
to put the word content in the textbook to remind me to put
in the instructions at a later date.
And then instructions for example,
for this particular assignment will be for the student
to identify themselves,
introduce themselves to the class.
State their education and/or career goals.
And to tell us one thing about themselves
that nobody else may know that they're willing to share.
So I will put that in later.
Something we're all familiar
with obviously is assign points, if you so choose.
Select your assignment group
where you want those points to go.
Points or percentage, display grade as.
And then you want to select
as your submission type external tool.
Now when you do that, go over here to find.
And remember you've got two sliders here.
One on the outside, outer edge on a right-hand side.
You go where's Flipgrid and then you go to the inner slider
to look for Flipgrid and there it is.
And select.
Assign to whomever you're going to assign it to.
Select a due date
or availability dates if you so choose.
And of course, click save.
Now this is the key.
If you have done this correctly, when you click save,
this is what you will see immediately.
Give it a moment, give it a moment.
And there it is.
Okay. If you've done it successfully,
this will pop up on your screen.
Keep in mind at this point here you do not, you do not need
to edit assignment settings unless you want to go back in
and input your content.
Which I have to do later.
Or just your points, due dates, so on and so forth.
We want to create a course grid.
Now remember, what did I say about grids?
A grid equals your course.
Okay, this course is my Anatomy of a Murder course,
so I need to create my first course grid.
And you'll see my first course grid or topic as it says here.
Topic details, remember not to be confused with grid details.
Introduce your, introduce yourself
to the class using Flipgrid.
Now at this point, you may want to do what I'm
about to show you next.
Or you may want to do it later.
But we need to make this course, or excuse me,
we need to make these videos accessible.
Right? So you want to click my grids.
Scroll down, go see other courses
that you may have designed down here bellow.
You will see my Anatomy of a Murder course.
You want to navigate over to the pencil, the edit function.
And notice it says grid, grid details, not topic details.
You want to scroll down.
It's in sections, section one of four, two of four.
This says green because it's a Canvas course.
Section three of four.
You can have it notify you when students upload videos
or you could turn that off.
You can allow downloads of the videos.
And here's your accessibility option.
Captions. And that's where I was going with this.
And if you want to personalize it on the section four.
You can actually swap out this picture here
which is a Flipgrid photo,
and you can upload your own photo here.
And you can do that on your own, obviously.
Right? So obvious, also, don't forget to at this point.
These are some other photos that you can select if you don't.
If you want to pick one of theirs or if you want to go
into your computer and pick something else more applicable
to your course.
Like I did for my Anatomy of a Murder course.
I picked a, a photo that identified with the course.
From that famous movie, Anatomy of a Murder.
Okay, so now lower-right corner, blue square.
Update grid.
Okay, so here's your grid, right?
So now you want to go back to your course topic.
Scroll down, as you will see introduce yourself to the class.
Click that, and you'll see now the difference.
We went from grid details to topic details.
Now here's another series of options
that you should be choosing.
Scroll down.
Oops. Forgot, the pencil, edit.
Again, we're still on topic details.
See how easy it is to get confused on this?
Okay, so here we go.
Here's your title.
You can change it here if you'd like.
A topic tip, 64 characters max-- 64 characters maximum.
Of course, you've got to know how to type, too.
Okay. Anyway, here we go.
Now on the left-hand side
of the screen you will see something called video
response time.
This is one of those advanced features, right?
Now that we have advanced features, thanks to Microsoft.
There are accessible to us as instructors.
You can set the time for anywhere
from 15 seconds to five minutes.
Now, you might want to think carefully
about how much time you want to give your, your students
to respond or reply, depending upon the assignment.
Because think of it this way.
Let's say for example, you've got 55 students
in your class or more.
Let's say you give them five minutes each.
So do the math: 55 times five is roughly 275 minutes.
So just a tad under five hours.
You've got to ask yourself, do you know what,
do you want to watch five hours of student videos?
And that's just with one course.
And most of you of course teach a lot more than one course.
So you might want to set it for two minutes for the students.
Now let's pause here a moment.
Let's say you're going to upload your own video
with perhaps a video of instructions to your students
about the topic that you have chosen.
Well, when you set this initial time, you might want
to give yourself more time because it might take you more
than two minutes to explain whatever it is you need
to explain.
If you do that, set the timer
for what you believe will accommodate your explanation.
And then you will hit update topic.
Then you can come back, go in here, and readjust the time
to let's say two minutes for your students to keep that,
that time down for the student review you will have to do
when you watch these videos.
Now, you'll see another text box under the one
that we see when we're in Canvas.
Above here.
If you were to hit edit assignment settings.
And this is the content box provided by Flipgrid.
Now Flipgrid has provided us with a recommended phrase
to put here to describe to the students how to use Flipgrid.
I have that in a word document which I'm going
to leave on-screen for a moment for you all.
And this way I can simply copy and paste it as such.
Leave it on screen in case you want to pause
and take notes and write that down.
Okay? Paste that in.
Adjust it to make sure it's neat.
And it is.
And this is just a brief explanation to the students.
In addition to whatever directions
or instructions you put in the Canvas content box as well
as a video you might record also.
Okay? So scroll down.
We've still got some more options to select from.
If you want to preview the videos before they're posted,
you would have to set this to green or on.
Require email responses.
It's up to you.
I don't see a need for it, personally.
We know where the responses are coming
from when they upload them.
If you have this set to active.
As long as you have the course date activated, ready to go.
Then students will be able
to immediately start participating
in this assignment.
If for some reason you want to put a hold on it,
you can freeze it or declare it inactive.
Alright? Your time zone, this should be automatic
for Pacific Standard Time.
You should not have to worry about that.
Now down below is where if you want to record a video,
you can by clicking this option.
Here on the left-hand side.
And, and this is for you to set this,
this Canvas course as Flipgrid grid up.
Or you can upload an existing video.
Or let's say you want to add a video,
maybe a video you want them to examine.
Alright? Either from YouTube or Vimeo.
Or you can upload an image.
Add a giphy, or add an emoji.
Or is it emoji?
So I'm going to do an emoji because if I attempt
to record a video, I'm going to be recording a video of a video
of a video within Zoom, and that's not going
to work out real good, folks.
So let's do this.
Add an emoji.
Oh, looky here.
I teach criminal justice.
And here are the scales of justice.
Now I selected as you can see by the blue outline.
But again, lower right corner, you gotta select it.
Hey, and there it is.
Looks pretty good, doesn't it?
You need to attach a link or an attachment title.
Or excuse me, a link with a title.
And then if you or if you want to upload an attachment
for the students for their review,
you do that in this area here.
And then some more features down here.
Allow them to do, allow them to attach stickers and drawings.
The link stays public.
Student replies unless you want, unless you don't want them
to be able to reply to other students.
It's up to you.
Then can add their own titles to their videos and video views.
I leave video views so that I know how many times a video has
been viewed.
And then you update topic.
So there you go.
Now, remember when we talked about knowing the difference
or just recognizing the difference
between grid details and topic details?
Alright, this is where we want to make our course accessible.
Click my grids.
Scroll down.
Identify your grid or course.
Click that little pencil which is the edit function.
Notice it says grid details.
Captions. And actually we did this already, didn't we?
But that's okay.
So it's good to make sure your course is accessible,
isn't it, folks?
Okay, so you know what?
Pretty much we are good to go.
So let's back out of here.
Let's take a look at this and see what it looks
like from the instructor viewpoint.
Scroll down, introduce yourself.
Let's publish because we're going to take a look at it
from the student view.
Now, another thing I want you to take note of.
Here we have the instructor view.
And if you go to edit, assignment settings,
you will see of course the information that you're going
to put into the content box, if, if you choose to.
You don't have to.
Okay? Alright?
Save. Now remember we talked
about the phrase the Flipgrid has recommended that we use?
You know, use whatever you want, okay?
And notice it says here in the first sentence to participate
from your web browser, tap the green plus button below
to begin recording.
And if you go below, you go,
where the heck is the green plus button?
So here's where it is.
You cannot see it as the instructor
in the instructor view.
Don't ask me why.
That's just the way it's set up.
Alright? So let's take a look
from the student view what it looks like.
Go to settings.
Now in my particular computer,
my additional options are on the right side.
Student view, course stats, calendar.
We know that depending upon your screen,
depending upon your computer, these options may be down below.
So let's click student view.
Obviously we are in the purple outline, letting us know
that we are in the student view.
Let's take a look at that Flipgrid course we've designed.
Let's scroll down.
Introduce yourself to the class using Flipgrid.
Later I'll import this into a module of course.
To put it in border.
There's that content that I would put here.
The instructions.
Over here will be your emoji or your video.
And as you scroll down, look what I found.
If you click this, or I should say the students will see the
green plus.
They will click it, and up will pop the video window.
At which time they may record their video.
If they don't like it, they can delete it
and they could do another video.
And the video, remember, will be timed based
on the time limit you have given them.
And if you allow them to add things to their video
to enhance it for fun, you can do that as well.
As you saw from the previous instructions.
And then what happens is that in the instructor view,
these videos will line up one
after another from top to bottom.
Now, the student view, they will see each student,
each student's videos a grid.
So as the students start accumulating
or the student videos start accumulating.
They will start from the left to the right.
So you'll have like four videos here
and then four more down here.
And they simply click them to watch the videos.
Now, in your instructor view, as you watch the videos.
The videos will rotate from one video to the next automatically.
Which is pretty good.
So you don't have to go in and click each individual video.
You start with one, click it,
you'll actually see two small arrows
on either side of the video.
And you can go to the next video if you want to accelerate ahead.
Or let the videos load, play,
and then they rotate to the next one.
And that ladies and gentlemen,
is pretty much all there is to it.
So if you have any questions,
feel free to contact Tracie, of course.
Okay? Come on Tracie, you didn't think you were going to get away
with me not giving you a shout-out.
Okay? Or if you want to contact me, my email is N,
nzingo@vcccd.edu of course.
And Tracie's email which I'm sure you probably all have.
Because I know I keep her on speed dial personally.
Let's see, hers is tbosket@vcccd.edu.
That's TBosket.
So that's it, folks.
I hope you've learned a little something from, from this video.
And I hope you make your classes engaging and interactive.
There's a lot more you can do it.
Or I should say there's a lot more you can do
to your courses rather than just, you know,
doing an introduction.
You can provide assignments where they do video uploads.
The students can reply to the-- to one another.
There's a lot of different things you can do
with this type of video.
It's beneficial not only for the on-ground courses,
but especially obviously for the online course as well.
That makes them just a, they're just a little bit more
interactive than they are now.
As much as you can make an online course interactive.
So that's it.
Again, my name is Nick Zingo.
And thank you for listening and watching.
Bye-bye.