Flint allows teachers to use AI for themselves and with students:

With both chats and activities, you can input custom guidelines and materials. Using Flint enables:

Teacher Augmentation 🧑‍🏫

Leverage Flint as a teaching assistant who can help you brainstorm, create, and refine your own teaching materials, feedback, and more.

Productive Student AI Use 🧑‍🎓

Safely bring AI into your teaching as an answer-seeker, not answer-giver. See all student interactions with the AI.

Personalized learning 🧠

Create AI activities to guide your students through learning objectives for any subject, in any language, at any time.

Immediate feedback ⚡️

Give students immediate feedback on their work that's written by AI but designed and tested by you.

You can access Flint by visiting app.flintk12.com and signing into your school's workspace with your school email.

You'll be brought to your Homepage where you can start new chats and activities.

Your students can log in at the same link above using their school email address. You can also send them a link to a specific group or activity that you make.

Before diving in, it's helpful to understand how Flint is organized:

Chats with Flint allow you to use the latest AI models to supercharge your own work. Some of what these chats can do include:

Any conversations and materials you upload within Flint are securely kept within your school's Flint workspace.

You can view all the chats you've had with Flint in the "My chats" tab in the sidebar.

AI activities on Flint are customized by you, for your students to interact with. They can be given specific teaching guidelines and materials to follow and can assess your students or give them extra help. Check out our use cases page to see more about how activities could look for different subjects.

Explore the School or Public Library. Here, you will find activities that have been created by fellow teachers within your school or across the globe! By exploring the library, you are able to...

Groups are one of the most powerful tools in Flint. They centralize your class, reduce repetitive prompting, and provide insights into student progress.

Explain what topic you want the activity to cover with students and any details about how you want them to interact with the AI. Flint will ask follow-up questions to gather all the right context to create an activity for you.

You can also upload custom teaching materials to further guide the AI. More details about when custom content is important and what can be uploaded here.

If you need inspiration for what kinds of activities can be created, check out the published activities shared by other teachers or use cases curated and explained by the Flint team.

You can manually try out the activity in the preview on the right or play a grade-level preview to see an example conversation that the activity and student could have.

After previewing how the activity will respond and evaluate students, you might want revisions to the activity behavior. You can type in the change you want and Flint will rewrite all relevant settings for you.

With every activity, there is the option to manually review and edit the settings. You can view and change them in the "Build manually" tab.

When you upload materials to Flint, the AI will prioritize drawing information from the materials provided, but still contextualize and draw from its large language model (LLM) training data to fill any reasoning or knowledge gaps as it interacts with students.

Flint will view the content you upload as the primary source of truth before using information from its training, thereby minimizing hallucinations and guiding students in a way more similar to how you would teach the topic.

Thus, uploading materials is extra important for any activities involving:

Regarding what materials you can upload:

The limit on content that can be uploaded is 100 pages double-spaced. You can upload around 16 large files/websites of this size. Each upload cannot exceed the 100 page limit.

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.

When you create a group, you become an owner of that group. As an owner, you can customize the visibility settings, see group analytics, and invite new students.

To create a new group, just click the "Add" button next to the Groups list and then click "Create in workspace" to make a top-level group. You can also create groups within groups by choosing a specific group to add the new group in rather than the workspace.

You can ask Flint to analyze student sessions across different activities within a group. Just go to the group's page, click the three dots in the top bar, and go to "View analytics".

Here you can see overall statistics and snippets from student sessions and ask Flint to analyze anything from an individual student's performance over time to where students improved from one activity to another to what skills or topics students consistently struggle with.

There are two options for sharing an activity:

To duplicate: You can click on the three dots at the top of an activity page to duplicate your activity. After duplicating, you can share your activity with other teachers. or assign it to a different group.

If you want your colleague to be able to edit the activity and view all submissions, make sure you add them as an owner in the "Share activity" panel.

You can publish activities to the wider Flint community and browse activities published by other teachers.

The Flint Public Library consists of activities published by the Flint team and teachers at other schools worldwide that are using Flint. These activities are all free for you to use and remix!

Gradebook is a centralized source that provides you with all of your students' grades within a group. It's a powerful tool that allows you to get a quick overview of your students' grades and makes record keeping easy.

Gradebook helps teachers track student progress, inform instructional practices, and find trends throughout their classrooms. It'll save teachers time on grading without needing to go into individual activities to see their student's progress.

It'll also help teachers individualize student learning by allowing them to target specific skills. Whether it's additional scaffolding or enriching activities, you can your Gradebook to support all of your learners!

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