Notifications keeps you up to date on what's happening in your school, classes and activities.
Open your notifications
Click Notifications (the bell) at the top of the left sidebar. A red badge shows how many notifications you haven't seen yet, or 9+ when there are more than nine.
The panel opens beside the sidebar and lists:
- Unread: notifications that arrived since you last opened the panel, highlighted.
- Past week: everything else from the last seven days.
Opening the panel marks all your notifications as read and clears the badge. Notifications older than a week drop off the list. If nothing has happened, you'll see There are no notifications within the past week.
Click a notification with a link to go straight to what it's about, such as the class, activity, chat or submission.
What you're notified about
What you receive depends on what you own or belong to. Some Flint announcements are also targeted to your school role. Similar events are grouped, for example "Maya and 3 more people joined Biology 101."
When you're invited or something is shared with you
- Someone invites you to a school or a class.
- Someone shares an activity or a chat with you.
- An activity is pinned to one of your classes or to your school's library.
For schools, classes and activities you own
- People join your school or class.
- A new class is created in your school.
- A new activity is created in your class or school. Drafts don't count.
- Someone starts a chat or session in your school, class or activity.
- Students submit work for a file-upload activity.
Announcements in your classes
- Someone posts an announcement in one of your classes, or chooses Notify the class about this change when updating one. Click the notification to open the announcement.
- Scheduled announcements notify the class when they post, not when scheduled. In an unpublished class, notifications go only to people with Can edit on the class.
From the Flint team
- Our team replied to your help conversation: a Flint teammate answered you in Help. Click it to open that conversation.
- An update on your feedback: the Flint team has news about feedback you gave Sparky. When the update says a requested feature has shipped and is available to you, the unread notification sparkles.
- Flint announcements and product updates: these may be sent to everyone or only selected school roles. If an announcement has a link, click it to read more.
Banners at the top of the page
Flint sometimes shows an announcement as a purple banner across the top of the app instead of in Notifications. A banner has a short title, message or both, and may include a link to read more. Different school roles can see different banners, and a banner disappears when it expires or the Flint team takes it down.
If a banner has an X, click it to dismiss that banner. It stays dismissed for you on every device. Banners without an X stay until they're removed.
Good to know
- There's no setting to turn individual notifications on or off, and no way to dismiss one from the Notifications panel.
- Alerts about flagged student messages are sent by email, not in this panel. Choose which moderation categories email you in your school or class settings. See Moderation in Flint.
- Notifications aren't sent for due dates, grades or @mentions.