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  • A class's Tools page, with the class name in the breadcrumb and sidebar and tool cards under the All tools, For teachers, For students and Hidden tabs

    Tools

    Open any tool inside a class

    Each class has its own Tools page. A tool opened there starts a chat in that class, so Sparky already knows the class and its students.

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  • The For students tab of the Tools page, with the Hide tool from students tooltip over the eye button on the AI Study Guide Maker card

    Tools · Admin

    Hide tools from teachers or students

    Admins can hide any tool from the people it's for, and teachers can hide student tools from their own students. Sparky stops suggesting hidden tools, too.

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  • The New announcement form with Schedule chosen under When to post, a Post on date and At time, Also email students when it posts ticked, and an Expires date

    Tools

    Schedule announcements and set them to expire

    Pick a date and time for an announcement to post, and a day for it to come down. Preview links, bold text and bullets the way students will see them.

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  • The Download 3 resources dialog listing three students, each with a PowerPoint, Excel or Word file, above the Download button

    Activities

    Download every file students made in an activity

    Download resources saves the documents, slides, spreadsheets, code and images from an activity's sessions as a ZIP, with a folder for each student you tick.

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  • The You haven't submitted yet box with Leave and come back later and Submit now buttons

    Activities

    Students are reminded to submit before they leave

    When a student leaves a session they haven't handed in, Flint asks them to submit it now or come back later, so their finished work reaches you.

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  • Admin · Integrations

    Show synced people by first and last name

    School admins can turn on Leave out middle names when importing from an SIS or LMS. That import and every automatic sync then show first and last names.

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  • The join code screen for a class called English 10 — Period 3, showing the six-character code P78Z37 above Copy code and Regenerate code buttons

    Navigation

    Students join your class with a join code

    Press View join code on a class's Overview and show students the code. They type it into Enter join code on Home and join the whole class.

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  • A spreadsheet of unit test scores with a bold, light yellow header row and a bar chart of each student's average beside it

    Tools

    Format spreadsheets and add charts

    Bold, color and border cells, then turn the selected cells into a bar, line or pie chart, or ask Sparky to. Both carry into the Excel download.

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  • A quiz question asking what a short Python program prints, with the code shown in a code block above four answer choices

    Activities

    Quiz questions show code, math and lists as written

    Code blocks, math, lists and images in quiz and test questions now show as written while you build, while students answer and when you grade.

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  • A teacher attaches Lab scores.xlsx and asks what is in cell C3 on the Period 3 tab, and Sparky answers that it says absent

    Sparky · Integrations

    Sparky reads every tab and cell of your spreadsheets

    Attach an Excel file or a Google Sheet from Drive and Sparky reads every tab cell by cell, so it can answer a question like "what is in C2?"

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  • An announcement opened in a class, "Essay drafts are due Friday", with Delete, Email students and Edit buttons

    Tools

    Email an announcement to your students

    After you post an announcement, choose whether to email it to the class. Students get its title and a Read it button. Send it later with Email students.

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  • A teacher asks Sparky for an image of knights at the Battle of Hastings for a 4th grade history lesson, and Sparky shows Norman and Anglo-Saxon soldiers with shields and banners on a green hillside, with no one hurt

    Sparky · Moderation

    Images Sparky makes suit your students' age

    Images, videos and slides Sparky makes show only what a textbook or museum would show students that age, based on the activity's grade.

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