What is it?
A school is a an environment within Flint that contains classes, activities, chats, terms, and more. A school typically has one Flint school to contain all the teachers, students, courses, and more at that school. As a teacher or student you are a part of your school.
Why is it important?
As a teacher, you might've created activities in a free/personal school that you want to move over to your school or activities from a previous term to your current term. Whatever it may be, you have the ability to move or duplicate your activities over to your desired, school, term, or class.
There are many situations where you may want to move your activities from one school to another. Maybe your school is new to Flint and you've been using Flint in your free personal school. Now you want the activities you created in your personal school to be transferred to your new school. Follow the directions below to do so!
- Navigate to "My Activities" on the left of your screen and go to "Import Activities" at the top of the next page.
- Select the school and term that you're importing the activities from.
- Choose the location of the activities you want to import (e.g. "Home" or a specific class).
- Select the activities you want to import by checking the boxes next to them. You can select more than one or select all by checking the box at the top.
- Once you've chosen your activities, click "Next".
- Choose to "Move" the activities (not duplicate) to the new school.
- Review the list of activities to be moved.
- Click "Move [number] activities" to confirm.
- Click "Done" to complete the process.
There are different situations where you might want to move an activity to a specific class. Maybe you've created activities in your school without assigning them to any of your classes yet. You're ready to do so now and want to move your activities into specific classes. Follow the steps below to do so!
- Navigate to the class you want to move the activities to on the left of your screen.
- At the top of your screen, click on the three dots to "Import Activities"
- Select the school and term that you're importing the activities from.
- Choose the location of the activities you want to import (e.g. "Home" or a specific class).
- Select the activities you want to import by checking the boxes next to them. You can select more than one or select all by checking the box at the top.
- Once you've chosen your activities, click "Next".
- Choose to "Move" the activities (not duplicate) to the new school.
- Review the list of activities to be moved.
- Click "Move [number] activities" to confirm.
- Click "Done" to complete the process.
Oftentimes on Flint, your school will create an updated term in your school to ensure that the rostering is correct. This means that you will be placed in the new term, and your old activities will remain in the previous term until you move them. If you want to move your activities from your new previous term to your new term, follow the steps below to do so!
- Ensure you are in your current term. You can confirm this by clicking on your school name at the top left of your screen.
- If you're moving activities from your previous term to your current term and not within a specific class, follow steps for "School to School" above.
- If you're moving activities from your previous term to a class within your current term, follow steps for "School to Class" above.
You really like one of your activities and want to duplicate it to multiple classes. You can do so by following the steps below!
- Navigate to your activity
- Click "Duplicate Activity" at the top of your screen
- Choose where you want to duplicate your activity to