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Summary	Access Flint Generative AI at Riverdale
Author	Maintained by Matthijs van Mierlo
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Status	Up-to-date for the 2024-2025 school year.

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🔎 General Tips and Tricks

As with any Generative AI, be specific and practice careful prompt engineering
Find a website to use as a starting point - create an Activity directly from that
Find a document (PDF/Word) to use as a starting point - create an Activity directly from that
Identify in your prompt how you want students to interact with the AI. What are the learning goals and objectives?
Be specific for what constitutes a good response vs. an incomplete response so that students can get the most helpful feedback.

✏️ Students

1️⃣ Access Flint

Go to: https://riverdale.flintk12.com
Click Sign in with Google
Use your Riverdale email address and passphrase

2️⃣ Find Assignments (Activities)

To find an assignment that you need to complete for one of your classes, either:

Click the direct link your teacher shared with you in Schoology
Click the Group in Flint for your class, then click the Activity

3️⃣ Create Activities

If you want to create a personal Activity to explore a new topic or help with a task (developing a thesis, etc.), you can do the following:

Log in to Flint with your Riverdale email address and passphrase
Type your prompt in the Create activity area and click Create
Optional: upload a file, provide a URL, or insert math or code to give Flint more context
Choose the prompt that sounds best!

🏫 Teachers

1️⃣ Access Flint

Log-in with Google here: https://riverdale.flintk12.com
Create a Group. Think of a Group like a class.
- Based on the Group description, an automatic Companion will be built. Think of this like a general AI at the course level. This can be enabled or disabled by teachers.
- Within the group, you can create Activities. Think of an Activity like an assignment. When students submit their session, teachers have full visibility in terms of what students wrote and how they interacted with the AI session. You can choose the best tutor (you are typically given 3 choices) and can test it before assigning it to your students.

📝 Prompts for Flint

Remember:

Upload PDF, documents or websites to give the tutor class specific context (vocab, grammar practice, question types, etc.)
You can always fine-tune your activity by going to Activity Settings and changing settings and configurations as needed.
If you have any questions about Flint, reach out to a member of the Tech Team! We are happy to help.


Use Case	Starting Prompt
Vocab/Grammar Tutor	Prompt Template: Vocab/Grammar Practice Tutor
Writing Tutor	Prompt Template: Writing Tutor Sample Flint Activity: Writing Tutor
Additional Practice Tutor	Prompt Template: Additional Practice Tutor

⚠️ Remember...

No AI is perfect. Check for errors, and make it clear to students that this is a practice tool to engage with content beyond typical readings and assignments.
This should be used as a formative assessment tool. Think of this as a substitute for reading quizzes, reading checks, or brainstorming sessions.
The assignments are only going to be as good as the content, prompts, and resources that go into creating the Tutors. Remember that!

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 # Optional: '''''upload a file''''', provide a '''''URL''''', or insert '''''math''''' or '''''code''''' to give '''''Flint''''' more context
 # Choose the prompt that sounds best!
-=== 4️⃣ Sample Prompts ===
-{| class="wikitable"
-|+
-!Subject
-!Prompt
-|-
-|English/History
-|"I am a student in a 9th grade English course. Help me develop a thesis for a paper on Macbeth. My initial idea is _________. How can I make my thesis more specific and focused?"
-"I am exploring the Industrial Revolution, and would love to explore intersections between race, class, and gender during this time period. Can you help me unpack this idea more and develop it into a working thesis?"
-|-
-|Language
-|"Create a personal 10th grade French/Spanish/Chinese/Latin/Greek tutor that helps me practice vocabulary related to ordering food at a restaurant. Make it conversational, and make sure the tutor corrects me if I make any grammatical or spelling mistakes. It should be an immersive tutor in the target language."
-|-
-|Math/Science
-|"I am about to create a lab for 10th grade biology where I need to measure the degree to which certain plants exhibit features related to the Fibonacci numbers. These are the plants I'm planning to look at _________. Can you help me create a lab plan and evaluate trends in my data? I need help with determining what kind of data I'm going to collect, and how I'm going to analyze it."
-"Create a tutor for 9th grade geometry that helps me practice the pythagorean theorem in different word problems. Make the problems varied (in type and difficulty), and make sure they review all the key ideas related to the pythagorean theorem which include _________."
-|-
-|Art/Music
-|"Help me brainstorm ideas for my painting/drawing/photography class. The assignment prompt is to _________. I want to tie this assignment together with my passion for music, specifically impressionistic music. What kinds of art styles do you think would be good for something like this? Help me develop a solid idea to get started with."
-|-
-|Theatre/Dance
-|"Help me create 5 ice breaker activities for my theatre/dance club to help new club members become comfortable with improvisation and collaboration. The ice breaker activities should be appropriate for 6th graders through 8th graders, and should be varied in type. Make them funny, and help me brainstorm them."
-|}
 == 🏫 Teachers ==
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 #*Within the group, you can create '''''Activities'''''. Think of an '''''Activity''''' like an '''''assignment'''''. When students submit their session, teachers have full visibility in terms of what students wrote and how they interacted with the AI session. You can choose the best tutor (you are typically given 3 choices) and can test it before assigning it to your students.
-=== 2️⃣ Sample Tutor Prompts ===
+== 📝 Prompts for Flint ==
+Remember:
+* Upload PDF, documents or websites to give the tutor class specific context (vocab, grammar practice, question types, etc.)
+* You can always fine-tune your activity by going to '''''Activity Settings''''' and changing settings and configurations as needed.
+* If you have any questions about Flint, reach out to a member of the Tech Team! We are happy to help.
 {| class="wikitable"
-!Subject
+|+
-!Prompt
+!Use Case
+!Starting Prompt
 |-
-|Language
+|Vocab/Grammar Tutor
-|"Make an assignment for a 9th grade French immersion class where you are a restaurant waiter and the student (responding) is acting like a diner. In the assignment, students should practice the basics of ordering food, asking questions about food on the menu, as well as useful phrases that they might hear in a restaurant setting. The waiter should ask at least 5 total questions to the student, and students should only get full credit on the assignment if they adequately answer all 5 questions. Make sure the assignment follows a natural conversational structure, and make sure the conversation is only in French. Adjust the level of french for typical 9th grades courses. Verb tenses used should only be the present tense."
+|[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1EKUrpmXGGUutr6ieWOT4oC4SGotSXfivjNBCqaO0RHg/edit?usp=sharing Prompt Template: Vocab/Grammar Practice Tutor]
 |-
-|History
+|Writing Tutor
-|"Please make an assignment where students identify the key stages of an imaginary bill (fictitious and funny for 7th graders) through the law making process as described by the article below. Make sure students review all major steps outlined below in a conversational fashion. Make it such that students feel like they're in the center of this law getting designed, built, and approved. Grade students based on how well they understand the content from the reading and the depth of their answers."
+|[https://docs.google.com/document/d/18iYf6TTsU4rLFIIETlYfv21vsLdDkHtgmLJpxbDEmas/edit?usp=sharing Prompt Template: Writing Tutor]
+[https://app.flintk12.com/activity/essay-writing-c-1ff55f/session/new Sample Flint Activity: Writing Tutor]
 |-
-|English
+|Additional Practice Tutor
-|Website: <nowiki>https://allpoetry.com/poem/11503372-A-Cabin-In-The-Clearing-by-Robert-Frost</nowiki>
+|[https://docs.google.com/document/d/14F-t4hyoR3sGWaaCA3cfYyY6rHygX5uKo1c_DRXseWY/edit?usp=sharing Prompt Template: Additional Practice Tutor]
-"Make a formative assignment where students are interrogated about the deeper meaning of the poem. Ask students to highlight specific passages that resonate with them, and ask students to do an analysis based on the overall sentiment of the poem. The interaction should be extremely conversational, and help students unpack the deeper meaning in the reading."
 |}
 ==⚠️ Remember...==
 *No AI is perfect. Check for errors, and make it clear to students that this is a practice tool to engage with content beyond typical readings and assignments.
 *This should be used as a formative assessment tool. Think of this as a substitute for reading quizzes, reading checks, or brainstorming sessions.
 *The assignments are only going to be as good as the content, prompts, and resources that go into creating the Tutors. Remember that!