What is it?
There are three different account types at the school level: admin, teacher, and student. Each account type can be a participant or owner of a class, activity, or session. This guide explains what permissions and behavior you can expect from Flint depending on your role. For any admins, here's a follow-up guide on setting the roles of people in your school.
Admins vs teachers vs students within a school
The three types of users in a school have different visibility permissions and will be treated by Flint differently:
When admins use Flint, Flint will act like a helpful teaching assistant. Flint will be more open to helping write content, solve problems, etc. This behavior will be apparent in chats and activity creation with Flint.
Admins can see all activity within a school. They can search for any specific class, activity, or user to see their activity within Flint. They also have access to the school "Analytics" and "Settings and Members".
Admin have oversight over how people in the school are using Flint and can manage accounts, terms, school settings, and self-harm moderators. Within the school analytics, they can also see usage data (example below).
When teachers use Flint, Flint will also act like a helpful teaching assistant. Flint is great for helping to generate lesson plans, worksheets, activities, and more.
Teachers don't have the extensive, school-wide oversight that admins do. Typically, though, they are owners of their own class. See the sections about people and owners to read about how teachers can see activity and manage members within their classes.
When students use Flint, Flint will act like a teaching assistant or tutor interacting with a pupil. This means that Flint won't give answers straight away without explanation and won't write assignments for students. This behavior will be apparent in chats and activity creation with Flint.
Students typically won't be owners of any class or activities through SIS or LMS imports; however, they do have the ability to create their own class and activities, of which they would be the owners. Any of these classes and activities are always visible to administrators and sometimes visible to teachers (if created within a class owned by that teacher).
Participant vs Editor for classes, activities, and sessions
What is it?
The two roles for classes, activities, and sessions in Flint are editors and participants. A person can be a participant in one class and an editor in another. These roles affect their permissions in classes and activities (see here for more on classes vs activities).
Ownership trickles down. This means owners of a class have the same permissions as owners of activities in that class. Owners of the activities have similar controls as the owners of the sessions within those activities.
The creator of a class is the primary editor/owner. If you're importing rosters to set up classes in Flint from an SIS or LMS, the teacher of the class will automatically be set as the editor/owner of their classes and students will be set as participants. A class can have more than one owner, which is helpful for co-teaching courses.
Participants in a class can:
- Can click into and activity and complete a session.
- Create activities
In addition to what participants in the class can do, owners of a class can:
- Manage class settings.
- Manage people.
- See sessions completed by participants.
- Review Gradebook.
- Review analytics.
Editors/Owners of a class will have similar permissions as editors/owners of activities made within the class. They can access the settings, analytics, and sessions of activities in the classes they own.
Participants in an activity can:
- Create unlimited sessions with the activity.
- View their previous sessions with the activity.
- Share the activity via the link if the activity is open or unlisted.
In addition to what people in the activity can do, editors/owners of an activity can:
- View and edit the activity settings.
- View the activity analytics.
- View all in-progress and submitted sessions, along with their session analytics.
- Manage the access permissions of the activity (open, unlisted, or private).
- Duplicate the activity.
Crucially, this means students (typically participants in activities), can see their own sessions, but not sessions of their peers. They also can't see or edit the settings of the activities.
The creator of the session is the only one who can participate in the conversation. Owners of the session—which would be the creator, activity owner(s), and class owner(s)—can see the transcript and print, duplicate, remove, share, and submit the session.