What is Flip?

NOTE: For anyone familiar with or looking for information on Flipgrid, that product is now known as Flip.

From the vendor: “Flip is a free video discussion platform from Microsoft that helps educators see and hear from every student in class and foster fun and supportive social learning. In Flip, educators post discussion prompts and students respond with short videos, whether they are learning in class or at home.”

If you’d like to learn more about using Flip, you can check out their Getting Started Guide, sign up for a Flip-run webinar, or browse their help articles.

Configuring Flip for your Course

Part 1 – Add the Flip App to your Canvas Course

Note: We recommend using Mozilla Firefox to do this integration. Integrations with Google Chrome have occasionally been known to fail. If this happens, do NOT add another integration! Contact us at Educational Software Consulting to remove the broken integration and then reintegrate using Firefox.

1. Within Canvas, select one of your courses from the sidebar menu.
2. Select Settings from the navigation menu and then Apps from the tab.
3. Select Flip and click Add App.
   
4. Login to your Flip account and go to the integrations section.
   
5. Select the Add New Integration button and name your integration.
6. Copy your Flip key & secret into the Canvas fields.
   

Part 2 – Add Flip Assignments in Canvas

1. Within your Canvas course, select Assignments and click the blue + Assignments button.
2. Fill in the necessary fields you would normally want for a Canvas assignment, then scroll to the Submission Type box.
3. Under the Submission Type drop-down menu, select External Tool. Click Find and select your Flip configuration.
   
4. Click the Save button at the bottom of the page to finish creating your Canvas Assignment.
5. You will now see the Canvas Assignment you created and a new Flip Topic automatically generated.

**NOTE – You cannot integrate existing Flip Topics.

FAQs for Flip + Canvas

I want Flip to show in my course sidebar

To avoid issues with SpeedGrader, Flip is not defaulted to show in the course sidebar. To enable Flip in the sidebar, head to Settings and select Navigation. There you can drag Flip to be listed in the sidebar.

As the educator, I see “Course not connected”

Adding a Flip integration must be done individually by the course teacher. To add the integration, your role in the course must be designated as “Teacher.” Select the People tab on your course sidebar and confirm your role is marked as Teacher.

My students are struggling with finding the Flip assignment on mobile.

To participate on a mobile device, make sure students have the Flip app downloaded from the Android Play Store or iOS App Store, then follow these steps:

1. Tap the “Submission” tab within this Assignment
2. Tap “Launch External Tool”.
3. Tap the “Record a Response” button where you will be prompted to “Open in app.”

I want to add an existing Flip or Topic to Canvas. Why can’t I do this?

Canvas does not allow existing Groups or Topics to be integrated. Instead, each new assignment will automatically create a Topic which integrates to SpeedGrader. Add any details of the assignment to Canvas instead of Flip to make sure duplication works for future courses!