Congratulations! If you're reading this guide, you're likely an administrator at a school that has recently partnered with Flint. We're excited to be working with you! In this guide, you'll find all the technical and training information that you'll need to get your school set up.
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Step 1: Integrate your SIS/LMS with Flint for automatic rostering
When a member of the Flint team sets up access to the platform for your school, they will add you, the school administrator, as an admin on Flint. Additionally, your school's email domain (e.g. @orchardacademy.org) will be whitelisted in your school's Flint workspace. This means that any user with a school email address will be able to head to app.flintk12.com and join your school's workspace.
However, we highly recommend importing teachers, students, and classes into Flint via your SIS/LMS.
Follow this guide, or forward it to the member of your tech team that manages your school's rostering platform:
By importing rosters, you can significantly reduce the work needed for teachers to use Flint with their students, as their classes will be automatically set up for them. Flint supports systems like Veracross, Blackbaud, Canvas, and more.
Step 2: Provide training for teachers
All training materials for Flint are free and publicly accessible. That includes our getting started guide for teachers and this comprehensive PD deck.
All paid licenses to Flint include on-demand, specialized PD at no additional cost. We’ve done everything from school-wide PD for > 300 teachers, to division-specific trainings, and we would be happy to chat about how to best roll out Flint to your school. If your school would like support rolling Flint out to teachers, feel free to reach out to our Head of Teacher Experience, Lulu Gao, at [email protected].
Resources with more examples of how Flint can be useful for teaching include:
Use cases pages
Pre-built templates (made by educators!)
For continued learning, teachers can check out our Campfire Sessions calendar. Designed to give educators space to share and discuss various use cases for Flint, these themed, interactive webinars are a great place to connect with others and be inspired.
Step 3: Review admin help guides
The Flint Help Center includes a dedicated section for administrators, which can be viewed here.
Here are three guides that may be helpful to reference in particular: