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Uploading content to Flint

How to and how much and what type of content you can upload for Flint to learn from.

Sohan Choudhury avatar
Written by Sohan Choudhury
Updated over a month ago

Why should I upload content to Flint?

When creating an activity in Flint, you can supplement the AI's knowledge with additional materials. Flint will lean towards using the knowledge provided rather than its vast wealth of training data. Giving Flint content you have vetted and trust can help make sure it will explain concepts accurately and in a similar manner to how you would.

You can provide Flint with readings, quizzes, worksheets, presentations, student work, syllabi, rubrics, etc., to analyze and learn from, guiding its interaction with you and your students.

It's important to note, though, that knowledge of uploaded content stays within the activity or chat it has been uploaded to. If you open a new chat or activity, Flint won't have knowledge about previously uploaded content and you’ll need to share any relevant explanations and content with Flint again.

What content can I upload to Flint?

You can attach various information as:

  1. Files (PDF, Word, PowerPoint, CSV, etc.)

  2. Web links*

  3. Images

  4. Equations

  5. Code snippets

  6. Whiteboard drawings

  7. Rich text

  8. Google Drive files**

  9. OneDrive files**

*Make sure any links you provide are publicly accessible without any account setup needed. For example, the link to an article behind a paywall would likely not be accessible by Flint. If you’re ever unsure if Flint can read something, you can just ask for a summary of the content and see if its output is accurate.

**For a guide on how to integrate your Google Drive with Flint, see here.

**For a guide on how to integrate your OneDrive with Flint, see here.

How much content can I upload to Flint?

The size limit on each individual piece of uploaded content is about 100 pages double-spaced. You can upload around 16 large files/websites of this size into a singular activity. If your files are smaller, you'll be able to upload more than 16. Each upload cannot exceed the 100-page limit.

The size limit is a natural limitation of how much content state-of-the-art AI models today can accurately remember, and we're constantly updating Flint to increase this limit.

As you're building out your activity, you might want to add documents, photos, links, code, or math equations to enhance or update your activity. There are two ways you can attach additional items to your activity in your activity settings. You can either use "Build with Sparky" or "Build manually" to do so.

How To: Attach documents, photos, links, code and math equations to your activity

How to use Build with Sparky to do it -

  1. Navigate to the activity you want to add to

  2. Go to "Activity settings" at the top

  3. Use the (+), paperclip, or camera to attach what you need

How to use Build manually to do it -

  1. Navigate to the activity you want to add to

  2. Go to "Activity settings" at the top

  3. Click on "Build Manually"

  4. Go to "Behavior"

  5. Scroll down to "Guideline for Sparky" section and use the (+), paperclip, or camera to attach what you need

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