Chat Activity Discussion

Many of our teachers who are new to Flint are accidentally creating activities within a chat. Is there an easy way to move the created activity so that it is actually a capital-A Activity for a class?

Conversation Summary

The discussion centers on the challenge teachers face when activities are accidentally created within chats instead of as formal Activities in Flint. Participants share various workarounds, such as:

• Copying chat content into the Activity creator.
• Using Flint AI to convert chats into prompts.

There is a consensus on the need for a more straightforward solution, with suggestions including:

• A dedicated button to convert chats into Activities.
• Improved integration between chat and Activity creation.

Responses from Participants

Kelly Schuster-Paredes:
Agreed, I would probably take it a step further; I would love to see them side by side rather than on top of each other, so that teachers see them as two separate items on the Home screen. 😃

Matt Lyons:
I’ve been able to take prompts I put in a chat and plug them into the Activity creator, choosing “Build with Sparky” instead of manually creating the activity. Isn’t this the fastest option?

Josh Barnard:
Agreed - the issue is when the teacher has tweaked the original prompt through a lengthy conversation in the chat, and then realizes only at the end that it’s not an Activity. I don’t see an easy way to take the final result and make it an activity without repeating the entire conversation.

Michael Smith:
Just adding that this was also confusing to me.

Lulu Gao:
Thank you everyone for the feedback! Our team will definitely work on making this more seamless. For now, you can ask Flint at the end to “Create a document with the settings for this activity.” Then you can download or copy the contents of that document and paste it into the activity builder chat.

Robert Petitto:
Agreed. Many teachers over here doing the same. Need a “Make this a Flint Activity” button somewhere.

Joseph Shannon:
I’ve had quite a bit of success just copying and pasting the chat into the “create an activity” option. I do like the idea though of a “Make this a Flint Activity” button!

Michaela Freeland:
Have Flint turn the chat into a document to download. Upload the document as you are creating the activity. Have Flint refer to the document as it is creating the activity.