What are terms in Flint?
Terms in Flint can be a semester, quarter, or other academic term. Terms allow you to organize people and classes to align with your school's academic calendar. This makes it easier for admins to set up new classes as they change from one academic term to another (e.g. Fall semester to Spring semester).
The active term is what students and teachers will see by default when they log into Flint. Visible terms will still be visible to teachers and students, but they will have to navigate to a visible term after logging in if they wish to view it. Invisible terms are only visible to admins, and teachers and students will not be able to navigate to an invisible term.
As an admin, you can easily set up the new term's classes and organize students and teachers into those classes using our integrations with rostering tools. Flint has partnered with Edlink to integrate with SIS and LMS like Veracross, Blackbaud, Canvas, and more.
Follow the steps below to create a new term, import people and classes from your SIS or LMS, and set the new term as active.
Note: when you create a new term, previous admins will not be carried over with their "Owner" status. They will need to be reassigned as an "Owner" once the new term is created.
- Navigate to "School settings"
- Go to "Terms"
- Scroll down to "Add term"
- Fill in the term name, start date, and end date. Start and end date can be left empty, but there must be a name.
🚨 Note: the new term that you've created is a complete blank slate. No data (users, classes, tutors, etc.) is carried over into the new term.
You will now be prompted to import your students and courses from your rostering tool.
Select "Add SIS or LMS" to link your rostering system or select an existing integration
The SIS and LMS tab will open automatically. Here, you can import students from an existing integration or create a new integration. If you still need to set up the integration for your school, you can refer to this guide on creating a new integration with an SIS or LMS source.
How to do it -
- Navigate to "School settings"
- Click on "SIS and LMS"
- Click on your integration
- Confirm your data pipeline and click next
- Review the amount of users are correct and click next
- Review the amount of classes are correct and click next
- OPTIONAL : ONLY check off the box if you want to remove users that aren't a part of this integration
- Click "Import" and you're done!
Review People
Go to the "People" tab within "School Settings" to make sure individuals have been assigned the proper roles. If you do need to make any edits, adjust and then click "Update". For more details on changing roles, check out this guide.
- Navigate to "School Settings"
- Go to "People" and review unassigned people
- Assign them a role
Activate Term
Click "Mark as Active" in the top right corner to officially make this term the visible term and hide the old term from students and teachers. Their school will reflect the new classes and any former activities that they want to use again can be imported into the new term.
- Ensure you're in a inactive term (you will see a gray banner at the top of your screen)
- Click "Mark as active" to activate
Here are some resources for more specific help with using terms: