Tables in Formative
We're excited to announce that Tables are now available across most question types in Formative! This powerful new feature offers flexible ways to present information and engage your students with structured responses.
Tables can be utilized in two primary ways to enhance your instructional and assessment content:
Displaying Data and Organizing Information
Easily embed tables directly into your questions to present data clearly.
Organize comparative information, steps in a process, or any data set that benefits from a structured layout.
This helps students visualize relationships and interpret complex information more effectively.
Eliciting Student Responses within a Structured Format
Fill-in-the-Blank Tables: Create tables where students complete missing information directly within the cells. This is perfect for categorizing, matching, or providing specific data points.
Drag-and-Drop Tables: Design interactive tables where students drag and drop correct information or categories into designated cells. This allows for dynamic assessment of classification, sequencing, or matching skills.
Tables are integrated with various question types, including Numeric, Inline Choice, and Drag and Drop, providing versatile assessment options.
With Tables, you can create even richer, more interactive content that not only enhances student understanding but also streamlines your assessment creation and grading.
Note: At this time tables are not supported for Categorize, Resequence and Match Table Grid question types.
Enable Advanced Editing
To enable adding tables to questions, click on the triple dots menu at the top right corner of any formative and select 'switch to advanced editing'.
If you'd like to make the changes on your existing formative- untoggle 'Duplicate Formative' and confirm your selection by clicking 'Convert'. Otherwise, when converting, your formative will be duplicated and the advanced editor will be enabled on the new copy.
Now, you will have the option to add tables to any supported question type and text content items.
Add table to a question or text item
Click on the small plus icon within the question or text field to open the enriched content menu:
Then proceed to select 'Table' from the dropdown
Select the desired amount of columns and rows for your table
Enter text into the table's cells. You can proceed to add more text after the table too
