Once the activity is set up with a rubric, the student and activity will interact, and the tutor will grade the student based on the rubric you set. You can always go back and see the student's responses later.
Chat activities function as conversation partners for specific learning tasks, as opposed to essay activities, which allow students to get real-time guidance and feedback from the AI activity when writing a long-form essay.
To create an activity:
Click the "Create" button on the group page.
Add in the activity's objectives.
Under "Objectives", write a a few sentences about who the students are (e.g. 11th grade students) and the writing topic or prompt, what you would like to assess them on. This may require attaching additional materials (click on the paperclip icon to attach materials).
Select "Chat Activity" on the "Activity Type" page.
"Chat Tutor" is usually selected by default. Flint will automatically generate tutor ideas based on the content you inputted in the previous step.
Adjust the chat name and description.
The description defines the goals the students will have when working with the activity.
Adjust the activity behavior.
The activity's role, initial prompt, and rules or guidelines to follow will be created automatically. Feel free to adjust them as you like.
Tip💡: Be specific. Give the activity specific guidelines on what you encourage it to do (e.g. guide the student on providing historically accurate information) and what you want it to not do (e.g. do not provide direct answer to the student).
Tip💡: Test out the preview. In the center of the screen, you can see the preview panel. Try typing into the chat window and you can chat with the activity to test its behavior.
Use the "Revise" feature
If the activity isn't behaving as expected, use the "Revise" feature. See this article for more information.
(Optional) Check out the "Language Settings"
There are options to select the primary language, a secondary language (if applicable, see more here), your input and output method (speaking, text, or both), and your speaking rate (if applicable).
If you wish to make an assignment:
(Optional) Decide whether to use "Auto-grading", where the tutor grades the session with the student automatically.
If you would like to use, feel free to use the rubric generated or provide your own. Flint tutors can handle a wide range of inputs, and can usually understand if you copy and paste a rubric from your PDF or Word document into the box.
(Optional) Set assignment settings, such as the group, duration, and deadline, among others.
Share the assignment.
You can invite members directly using the search box. If your visibility is set to "Unlisted" or "Public", you can also share a link to the tutor. And lastly, if the visibility is set to "Public", all members of the group can see the tutor.
