What's Flint all about? 🧐
Flint allows teachers like you to input custom learning objectives and materials to design different AI tutors to guide your students in learning new topics, practicing knowledge retrieval, developing AI literacy, and more. Using Flint enables:
Productive AI Use
Safely bring AI into your teaching as an answer-seeker, not answer-giver.
Teacher Augmentation
Create a team of 24/7 AI tutors to guide your students through learning objectives for any subject, in any language.
Personalized Learning
Give students immediate feedback on their work that's written by AI but designed and tested by you.
AI Oversight
See all student interactions with Flint's AI.
An Overview of Flint (Video) 🎥
In this guide, we'll walk through this checklist of getting started with Flint:
Logging into Flint
Creating a Group
Create a Tutor
Sharing your group/tutor with students
Reviewing student sessions
Logging into Flint 🧑💻
You can access Flint by visiting app.flintk12.com and signing up with your email. You'll be brought to the Flint Community page and can find your school's organization on the left side.
Your students can do the same, or you can send them a link to a specific group or tutor that you make.
Creating a Group
💡 A group can be for a course, department, extracurricular, etc.
When you create a group, you become an owner of that group. As an owner, you can customize the visibility settings and 24/7 tutor available to students for general inquiries.
Create a Tutor
💡 A Tutor is an individual learning activity or assignment that you can customize.
There are two types of tutors in Flint: chats and essays. Tutors can be assigned to a group, have their own visibility settings, and can be duplicated for use in other groups or by other teachers.
Tutors can act as assignments, 24/7 practice, review for assessments, and more. Check out our use cases page to see more about how tutors could look for different subjects.
Making Stellar AI Tutors in Flint ✨
Here is the process we suggest for creating and sharing highly effective and personalized tutors in Flint:
1. Be specific with your learning objective
1. Be specific with your learning objective
Though you can technically start a tutor with any simple learning objective, the more context you give Flint initially, the more catered the generated tutor settings will be.
There are 3 pieces of context that are good to provide within your objective:
Who the students are
What you want them to learn/demonstrate
How you want them to be evaluated
2. Upload relevant materials
2. Upload relevant materials
When you upload materials to Flint, the AI will prioritize drawing information from the materials provided, but still contextualize and draw from its GPT 4.0 training data to fill any reasoning or knowledge gaps as it interacts with students.
Thus, uploading materials is extra important for tutors involving:
An obscure topic for which the AI may not have training data
Adopting a specific point of view on a topic.
Covering a current event/emerging topic (because the AI only has data up until April 2023)
Regarding what materials you can upload:
Anything text-based works and images currently can't be read.
YouTube videos can be added, but Flint can only access the transcript and not interpret the visuals.
There is a context window that limits uploads to a maximum of 6000 words.
Generally, adding materials is always better than not because the materials you add can also implicitly hint to the AI about the reading level, knowledge level, and learning expectations you have for students. Think about it as if you were training a new teaching assistant to guide your students on a new topic. The TA may possess basic knowledge, but, with materials you provide, they can better guide students in the way you prefer.
3. Test and revise
3. Test and revise
With each tutor, we suggest testing thoroughly and revising as needed before sharing with students. You can manually try out the tutor in the preview or, for chat assignments, you can click on a grade-level preview to see an example conversation that the tutor and tutee could have. This can reveal the tutor's expectations of the students.
By previewing how the tutor will respond and evaluate students, you can make revisions to the settings. The easiest way to do this is using the revise feature. You can type in the change you want and Flint will rewrite all relevant settings for you.
4. Share with students
4. Share with students
Once you're done editing your tutor and click "Create", you'll be brought to a sharing panel to determine which group the tutor will belong to, the visibility of the tutor, and who it's directly shared with. You can also copy the link to share with students.
5. Share with colleagues/other groups
5. Share with colleagues/other groups
A tutor that you share with someone or that someone shares with you can be duplicated to a new group. You can use this duplicate feature to share your tutor with other teachers or assign it to a different group.
6. View sessions
6. View sessions
You can see all submitted and in-progress sessions students create on the page for the tutor. When you have 3+ sessions submitted for a tutor, you'll see tutor analytics describing the whole group's performance on the left.
Each session will save the full transcript as well as audio snippets if it's a spoken assignment. You can also see the feedback the student received after the session was submitted on the right.
Additional Resources
Below are some resources that may help you get to know Flint and how to use it better:
If you have any questions or feedback while on the platform, you can also reach out to our team using the built-in support chat.
