What is it?
There are three different account types at the school workspace level: admin, teacher, and student. Each account type can be a member or owner of a class, activity, or session. This guide explains what permissions and behavior you can expect from Flint depending on your role. For any admins, here's a follow-up guide on setting the roles of people in your workspace.
Admins vs teachers vs students within a workspace
The three types of users in a workspace have different visibility permissions and will be treated by Flint differently:
Admins
Admins
When admins use Flint, Flint will act like a helpful teaching assistant. Flint will be more open to helping write content, solve problems, etc. This behavior will be apparent in chats and activity creation with Flint.
Admins can see all activity within a workspace. They can search for any specific class, activity, or user to see their activity within Flint. They also have access to the workspace "Analytics" and "Settings and Members".
Admin have oversight over how people in the workspace are using Flint and can manage accounts, terms, workspace settings, and self-harm moderators. Within the workspace analytics, they can also see usage data (example below).
Teachers
Teachers
When teachers use Flint, Flint will also act like a helpful teaching assistant. Flint is great for helping to generate lesson plans, worksheets, activities, and more.
Teachers don't have the extensive, workspace-wide oversight that admins do. Typically, though, they are owners of their own class. See the sections about members and owners to read about how teachers can see activity and manage members within their classes.
Students
Students
When students use Flint, Flint will act like a teaching assistant or tutor interacting with a pupil. This means that Flint won't give answers straight away without explanation and won't write assignments for students. This behavior will be apparent in chats and activity creation with Flint.
Students typically won't be owners of any class or activities through SIS or LMS imports; however, they do have the ability to create their own class and activities, of which they would be the owners. Any of these classes and activities are always visible to administrators and sometimes visible to teachers (if created within a class owned by that teacher).
Members vs Owners for classes, activities, and sessions
What is it?
The two roles for classes, activities, and sessions in Flint are owners and members. A person can be a member of one class and an owner of another. These roles affect their permissions in classes and activities (see here for more on classes vs activities).
Ownership trickles down. This means owners of a class have the same permissions as owners of activities in that class. Owners of the activities have similar controls as the owners of the sessions within those activities.
In a class
In a class
The creator of a classis its first owner. If you're importing rosters to set up classes in Flint from an SIS or LMS, teachers will be set to owners of their class classes and students will be set to members. A class can have more than one owner, which is helpful for co-teaching courses.
Members of a class can:
Make sessions with activities shared with them.
Create activities and subclasses (of which they would become an owner of).
In addition to what members can do, owners of a class can:
Manage class settings.
Manage members.
See class and activity analytics.
See all activities within the class.
Owners of a class will have similar permissions as owners of activities made within the class. They can access the settings, analytics, and sessions of activities in the classes they own.
In an activity
In an activity
Members of an activity can:
Create unlimited sessions with the activity.
View their previous sessions with the activity.
Share the activity via the link if the activity is open or unlisted.
In addition to what members can do, owners of an activity can:
View and edit the activity settings.
View the activity analytics.
View all in-progress and submitted sessions, along with their session analytics.
Manage the visibility of the activity (open, unlisted, or private).
Duplicate the activity.
Crucially, this means students (typically members of activities), can see their own sessions, but not sessions of their peers. They also can't see or edit the settings of the activities.
In a session
In a session
The creator of the session is the only one who can participate in the conversation. Owners of the session—which would be the creator, activity owner(s), and class owner(s)—can see the transcript and print, duplicate, remove, share, and submit the session.