Rubrics, feedback, the gradebook, follow-up activities, and the reports on each student and class.Rubrics, feedback, the gradebook, follow-up activities, and the reports on each pupil and class.
Grading rubrics
Build rubrics with your own categories and levels. Sparky grades against them, and you can override any grade.
Build the rubric in the activity's Grading panel: your grades across the top, your categories down the side, and a description of what each grade looks like in each category. With auto-grading on, Sparky grades every submitted session against it.
Your grades and categories
Name the grades, give each a percentage, add as many categories as you need, and drag them into order.
Override any grade
Change the overall grade or a single category's grade on any session. Your change replaces Sparky's and is time-stamped.
What students seeWhat pupils see
Two switches decide whether students see the rubric and whether they see numeric scores.Two switches decide whether pupils see the rubric and whether they see numeric scores.
How the overall grade works
It is the average of the category scores, matched to the nearest grade on your scale.
Add your own written feedback to any session, beside Sparky's analysis.
Sparky's analysis is a first draft of feedback, not the last word. On any submitted session, add your own comments for each rubric category and an overall note, and they appear beside Sparky's strengths and areas of improvement.
Feedback by category
Write a comment against each rubric category, plus additional feedback for the session as a whole.
Without a rubric too
Sessions in ungraded activities have a teacher feedback card.
Let the student knowLet the pupil know
After you save, Flint offers to email the student that feedback is waiting.After you save, Flint offers to email the pupil that feedback is waiting.
Every activity's grades in one place per class, with weighted score categories.
Each class has a Gradebook tab: students down the side, activities across the top, and an overall score for each student. Set up weighted categories and the overall score becomes a weighted average.Each class has a Gradebook tab: pupils down the side, activities across the top, and an overall score for each pupil. Set up weighted categories and the overall score becomes a weighted average.
Grade weights
Create categories such as homework and classwork, give each a weight, and assign each activity to one.
Sort and filter
Sort by student, by overall score, or by any activity, and narrow to the students and activities you want.Sort by pupil, by overall score, or by any activity, and narrow to the pupils and activities you want.
More than one attempt
The latest submission counts by default, and earlier ones are a click away.
Download as CSV
Take the whole gradebook into your school's own system.
Turn the gaps in a session into the next activity, with the request already written for you.
Every analysis ends with a follow-up, and the follow-up has a button. Press it and the Activity Builder opens in the same class with the request already written, and with the original activity, its analysis, and the session attached for Sparky to build from.
For one student or the classFor one pupil or the class
Start from a single session's analysis or from the analysis of the whole activity.
Built from what happened
Sparky works from the source activity and its analysis, so the next activity targets the gaps.
Aware of your standards
When standards are tagged, it reinforces the ones not yet met and moves on where they are.
Yours to edit
The draft opens in the builder like any other activity, for you to adjust before assigning.
A weekly summary of each student's strengths and areas of improvement across their sessions.A weekly summary of each pupil's strengths and areas of improvement across their sessions.
Each student's profile opens on a learning profile that pulls their work together across classes: strengths, areas of improvement, and the moments from their sessions those are based on. It is refreshed every week.Each pupil's profile opens on a learning profile that pulls their work together across classes: strengths, areas of improvement, and the moments from their sessions those are based on. It is refreshed every week.
Latest insights
Key moments from the student's recent conversations, shown alongside the summary.Key moments from the pupil's recent conversations, shown alongside the summary.
Suggested next activities
Each report proposes follow-up activities, with a button to start building one.
Updated every Sunday
Reports are rebuilt weekly, so they keep up with the term.
Who can see it
The student and the school's admins. The profile also lists the student's classes, activities, sessions, and chats.The pupil and the school's admins. The profile also lists the pupil's classes, activities, sessions, and chats.
Bring in your standards and see which are covered, assessed, and met, with Bloom's levels and soft skills across activities.
Bring in your standards by uploading the documents they live in, adding them by hand, or starting from a preset such as AP, Common Core, NGSS, or the National Curriculum in England. Sparky tags activities with the standards they cover, and Analytics shows how far each one has got.
A standards pipeline
See how many standards are approved, covered by an activity, assessed, and met.
Where students standWhere pupils stand
Each student is met, approaching, or not yet on each standard, with coverage marked on target, partial, or gap.Each pupil is met, approaching, or not yet on each standard, with coverage marked on target, partial, or gap.
Cognitive rigor and soft skills
The Alignment tab charts Bloom's levels and soft skills across your activities.
Alignment to your school
It also measures activities against your pedagogy and your mission and background.
Members, sessions, and messages by role, for a class, a school, or a whole district.
The Usage tab shows how Flint is being used in a class, a school, or a whole district. Each level is open to the people who run it, with a date range you choose.
The headline numbers
New members, activities, sessions, chats, and messages for the period.
Who is using it
Active users over time, teacher and student usage side by side, and members by role.Active users over time, teacher and pupil usage side by side, and members by role.
What it is used for
Activities by type and by subject, and the most active creators and users.
Per-user detail
A usage table for every user that downloads as a CSV. Districts also see usage by school.
