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Admin Controls
πŸ”’ Creating Lockdown Browser

Optional guidance for school and district IT teams on locking devices down to Flint and blocking other AI tools.

Administrators
🧭 Purchasing Support Options for Flint

Comprehensive guide to funding Flint in educational institutions across public, private, and international sectors

Administrators
2026-2027 Back-to-School Guide

Everything you need to get Flint set up for the 2026-2027 school year, from creating the new term to emailing your teachers.

Overview of Flint
Access permissions in Flint

What Private, Anyone with the link, and Open to your school mean for a school, a class, or an activity.

AI activities in Flint
Activities: Everything You Can Do With Them

Duplicate, rename, share, pause, publish, collaborate on or delete an activity, and where each control lives.

Rostering and Integrations
Adding a Direct Link to Flint in Canvas

Add a Flint link to your Canvas course navigation with Canvas's Redirect Tool and open Flint in a new tab.

Administrators
Admin Essentials Checklist

Set up your school in Flint β€” add people, roster from your SIS or LMS, set up moderation, and give Sparky your school's context.

Admin Onboarding Checklist (preview)

Five steps to get your school ready for Flint before students arrive, with short videos and links to the full instructions.

Sessions in Flint
Archiving and deleting sessions

Archive a session or chat to tidy it away and get it back later, or delete it for good. Who can do each, and what each one means.

Rostering and Integrations
Assigning roles to students and teachers

How admins set and change the admin, teacher, and student roles that decide how Sparky treats each person.

Overview of Flint
Can I delete my chats in Flint?

School owners can permanently delete a chat. Others archive instead β€” how each option works, and how to request data removal.

Changing helpfulness of an activity in Flint

Decide how much Sparky gives away in an activity, by asking in the builder chat or by writing it into Guidelines for Sparky.

AI activities in Flint
Changing the behavior of an existing activity

Reopen an activity in the builder and change how Sparky behaves, either by chatting with Sparky or by editing the fields yourself.

Teachers
Classes, activities, and sessions in Flint

Key terms to know to navigate and understand Flint

Parents
Communicating with parents about AI

Details about Flint's student data privacy, educator oversight of AI use, and control over AI response accuracy.

Rostering and Integrations
Creating and managing terms as an admin in Flint

What terms are, how admins create one for a new semester or year, and how to make it the active term.

Classes in Flint
Detailed class analytics in Flint

See how your class is using Flint, how their work aligns to Bloom's and soft skills, and how they are doing against your standards.

Teachers
Document generation in Flint

Ask Sparky for a study guide, worksheet or lesson plan, edit and share it in Flint, or export it to PDF, Word or Google Docs.

AI activities in Flint
Enhancing Activity Prompts through Flint Chats

Talk an activity's instructions over with Sparky in an ordinary chat, then hand the improvements straight to the activity builder.

AI activities in Flint
Everything You Need to Know About Flint's Gradebook!

A guide on how to use our gradebook tool and where to access it.

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