Limit access hours restricts students to using your Flint school during the times and days you choose. Teachers and admins keep their access at all hours.
Schools use it to keep students focused during the day, to discourage late-night work, and to make sure someone is around to help if a student needs it.
Staff school owners can set this up, including admins and a teacher designated as the active term's creator. Ownership is separate from the Teacher or Admin role label. Student owners of their own free school cannot open Access settings.
Set your access hours
Watch: Review an access-hours draft without enabling policy
The walkthrough prepares and discards an access-hours draft; it does not enable a school policy.
- Click Admin in the left sidebar.
- Click Settings, then Access.
- Set Timezone, which is always visible above the access-hours switch. Access hours and daily or weekly moderation alert summaries follow this school timezone.
- Turn on Limit access hours. The Start time, End time and Days of the week fields appear, followed by Different hours for some grades. Under Different hours for some grades, click Add to give students in the Grades you pick their own Start time, End time and Days of the week in place of the school's hours. Leave it empty to give every student the same hours.
- Set the Start time and End time — 8 AM to 5 PM, for example. An end time earlier than the start time makes an overnight window: 10 PM to 6 AM stays open until 6 AM the next morning. An overnight window counts as part of the day it starts.
- Under Days of the week, choose at least one day students are allowed in.
- Click Save in the top right.
With access hours on, Timezone, Start time, and End time must be filled in before saving. Do not leave Days of the week empty: an empty day list does not allow student access on any day.
What students see outside those hours
A student who opens Flint outside the window sees a closed screen instead of the app, with a Sign out button. The screen tells them when Flint is open, for example "Flint is only available to help you Monday to Friday, 8
AM to 5 PM." Nothing is deleted — their classes, activities and sessions are waiting for them when the window opens again.When the hours end during a session
If the hours end while a student is chatting with Sparky, in a chat or an activity session, the page switches to the same closed screen as soon as they keep typing. Flint does not save text typed after closing time. Everything Flint saved before closing time is kept.
Tell your students the hours before you turn this on, and remind them to finish and submit their work before closing time.
Turn it off
Go back to Admin › Settings › Access, turn Limit access hours off and click Save. Students can use Flint at any time again.