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School Analytics in Flint

Learn how to use Flint's school analytics dashboard to monitor usage, track student engagement, and identify areas for improvement.

Written by Teddy Lane
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As an admin, you can view detailed analytics about your school's activity and member engagement.

In this article, you will learn...

The Analytics tab provides charts, metrics, and insights to help you understand how teachers and students are using Flint. To get there, from your school homepage, click on the "Analytics" tab on the lefthand side menu:

How to access school analytics

Setting a date and range

Use the date picker at the top of the analytics panel to filter data by time period. You can use the arrow buttons on either side of the date selector to slide between periods. For example, if you're viewing the last 30 days, clicking the left arrow shifts the view to the previous 30-day period.

Differences between the usage and alignment tabs

At the top of the analytics panel, use the segmented control to switch between two views.

Usage — Metrics about member activity, including active users, activities created, sessions started, and number of messages sent.

Alignment — Curriculum-focused insights, including soft skills demonstrations, Bloom's Taxonomy coverage, and AI-analyzed chat sessions.

View analytics at the district level

To view analytics of an entire district, click on the name of your school in the upper left corner, then click "Manage districts", then click on the chart icon next to the gear for your district.

Within district analytics, there are additional metrics measured. You can see a percent breakdown of "Usage by school".

As well as a summary table of metrics across the school's within your district.

How Sparky can help you with analytics

Chatting with Sparky

From the Analytics tab, click the blue speech bubble icon in the top left corner to open a conversation with Sparky. Ask questions about your data and Sparky will analyze your school metrics, member activity, and learning trends to provide answers in plain language. This can be done in either the "Usage" tab or the "Alignment" tab.

What analytics are shown in the usage tab

Member metrics

Total members by role

An area chart showing the cumulative count of invited versus joined members over time. The chart displays two layers:

Invited — Total members added to the school.
Joined — Members who have signed in at least once.

Hover over the chart to see usage metrics per day.

Users by role

A pie chart showing the current distribution of members by role: Admin, Teacher, and Student.

Usage metrics

New activities, sessions, chats, and messages

A multi-line chart showing daily counts of:

New activities created (excludes drafts)
New sessions started (excludes drafts)
New chats created (standalone chats, not activity sessions)
Messages sent

Hover over the chart to see usage metrics per day.

Active users

A line chart showing the daily count of distinct users who visited the platform. Data may be up to 2 hours behind.

Teacher and student usage

A stacked area chart showing daily active users split by role (Teacher/Admin vs Student).

Usage details

This section includes several breakdowns. Clicking on a name in this section will bring you to that user's profile.

Top Activity Creators — Two tables ranking Teachers/Admins and Students by activities created.

Sessions per User — Two tables ranking Teachers/Admins and Students by sessions submitted.

Messages Sent in Chat — Two tables ranking Teachers/Admins and Students by messages sent in Sparky's standalone chat.

Usage Details Table — A sortable per-user summary with columns: User, Role, Activities Created, Classes Created, Messages Sent, Sessions Submitted.

What analytics are shown in the alignment tab

Summary

Soft skills

The Soft Skills section tracks how often students demonstrate Flint's five transdisciplinary skills—Critical Thinking, Curiosity, Resilience, Communication, and Creativity—during their chat sessions. The metric card shows total sessions where skills were identified, while the radar chart visualizes which skills appear most frequently.

Pulse

Pulse uses AI to surface actionable insights about your school's learning activity. It highlights what's going well, flags opportunities for growth, and calls out patterns that may warrant attention.

Cognitive Rigor

Cognitive Rigor shows how activities are distributed across the six levels of Bloom's Taxonomy. Use this chart to see whether students are engaging with higher order thinking tasks.

Activity metrics

Activity metrics break down how activities are structured. Activity Types shows the split between written and oral formats, while Activities Per Subject lets you drill into subject categories to see where learning is concentrated.

AI analyzed chat sessions

Flint's 5 transdisciplinary skills

This carousel highlights moments from student chats where Flint identified soft skills in action. Filter by skill to see examples of Critical Thinking, Curiosity, Resilience, Communication, or Creativity. Each card shows the student's exact words alongside the skill demonstrated, and clicking a card takes you directly to that moment in the chat.

Students' strengths and areas for improvement

This carousel surfaces AI analyzed chat sessions with identified strengths or growth areas. Use the dropdown to toggle between views. Each card links directly to the moment it occurred so you can review the full context.

Inappropriate messages

We take student safety seriously at Flint. An expandable section showing messages flagged for self-harm, violence, or harassment during the selected period. Each flagged message displays:

Message content
User who sent it
Timestamp
Moderation categories (e.g., self-harm, violence, harassment)
Link to the original chat

How to export data from analytics

Downloading CSV files

Each chart and table has a download button (download icon) in the top-right corner that exports the data as a CSV file. CSV files are named using your school ID and the chart name (e.g. school_id_total_members.csv).