AI activities in Flint

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

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

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

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

Pitch an activity at the right grade, year or proficiency level so Sparky writes in language your students understand.

Set when students can start a lesson, assessment or file submission, and when work is due.

Plan a lesson with Sparky in a chat, then click its activity card to carry the idea into a new activity.

Choose how Sparky sounds and how fast it speaks in any activity where Sparky talks to students.

Let students speak to Sparky, and have Sparky speak back, using the two communication settings in an activity.

Use folders to group a class's activities into units, so lesson plans and materials stay tidy.

Put a time limit on a whole session, on each response, or both — and see what happens when the clock runs out.

Stop Sparky grading sessions in an activity, and see what you and your students still get instead.

Connect your Google account once, then pull Docs, Slides, Sheets, PDFs and images straight out of Drive into any Flint chat or activity.

Set how much detail Sparky puts into each reply in an activity, from concise to thorough.

Bring activities from another school or an earlier term into your current one, and copy a single activity into several classes.

Take an activity you published back out of your school, district, or public library.

Pull Word, PowerPoint, Excel, PDF and image files out of your school or personal OneDrive into any Flint chat or activity.

Preview a chat activity with a simulated student or your own replies, or try an assessment's questions as a student in the builder.

How to create your first activity, and what to tell Sparky so it behaves the way you would in the classroom.

Review student work by activity type: lesson analytics and live alerts, assessment results, or file-upload submissions.

Attach files, links, images, spreadsheets, code and photos to a chat or activity — what Sparky can read and how much fits.

Chat with Sparky outside an activity to plan lessons, build materials, and get quick answers.

Build rubrics for Lesson with Sparky or File Upload, then review grades and feedback; export conversation grades as CSV.

Lesson with Sparky activities can use any of more than 800 language and region options — the full list, and how to set one.