Luna is a live AI assistant that enables direct chat to build and edit activities and assessments, streamlining prep time for various content like bell ringers, lessons frameworks, quizzes, and exams.
Here’s what you can expect from Luna in Formative today:
Activity creation: Generate a range of activities like bell ringers, exit tickets, polls, quizzes, and more.
Personalized outputs: Luna asks about your goals before generating any activity, and asks follow-up questions throughout the process to learn more about what you want to get out of the resources you create. Plus, Luna already knows your account profile, so responses are tailored to your specific subjects and grade levels.
Customization help: Keep chatting with Luna to request modifications, clarify intent, or simplify the outputs to make sure the content meets your unique needs. Any changes made with Luna are reflected live in your activity, and you can preview the student view instantly. But don’t worry, if you’d rather customize an activity yourself, you can still do that, too!
Seamless building and distribution: Luna builds and edits activities that you can save to your library and distribute to students, just like you can do yourself. And you’ll still see the real-time student responses for in-the-moment support.
Optimize Luna's Output
To optimize Luna's output, you can format your prompts by following these guidelines:
Clearly Define Your Goal
State the Subject & Grade Level: Specify what subject and grade level you're teaching.
Describe the Topic: Provide a clear, concise topic or concept.
Specify the Learning Objective: Explain what you want students to learn or achieve.
Focus on the Teaching Goal
Avoid Question Structure: Focus on content, not how questions are formatted.
No Specific Length Requirements: Concentrate on the topic, not how long the assessment should be.
Example Prompt
"I'm teaching 6th grade science, focusing on ecosystems. I want students to understand the food chain. How can we assess their understanding?"
By using a detailed and focused prompt, you'll help Luna generate useful and targeted assessments.
Supported Questions and Content
The live AI assistant can generate the following question types and content items:
Multiple Choice
Multiple Selection
Short Answer
Free Response
True or False
Show Your Work
Audio Response
Categorize
Matching
Resequence
Text Content (for reading passages or information)
Answer Choice Explanations
Hints
Additional question types can be generated using other AI-supported features - learn more about those HERE
Prompt factory: Get started with Luna
Want to try out Luna for yourself, but aren’t sure where to start? Use or adapt one of these prompts to get the creativity going!
General back-to-school prompts
Need to start the year with some icebreakers or an activity to learn more about your new students? Try these prompts:
Give me five open-ended questions for a “Getting To Know You” activity that will help me understand my students’ interests.
Can you create a three-question poll for students to gauge their feelings about starting a new school year?
Design a short writing prompt that asks students to share one goal they have for the upcoming school year and why it’s important to them.
Can you make me a “Two Truths and a Lie” template about hobbies and interests where students can share information about themselves and have us guess what’s true and what isn’t?
ELA prompts
Looking for a fun ELA activity to get students learning right away? Luna can help! Try prompts like:
Create a five-question multiple-choice quiz on identifying the main idea and supporting details in the paragraph I supply.
Can you make me a drag-and-drop activity where students match literary devices to their definitions or examples?
Hey Luna, set up a short writing prompt that asks students to analyze the author’s purpose in the informational text I provide.
Let’s make a sentence completion activity for irregular verbs.
Social studies prompts
Help students get in the groove from day one with engaging social studies activities, powered by Luna! Try prompts like:
Develop a categorization activity that asks students to sort historical events into chronological order.
Can you design a quick quiz on the U.S. branches of government?
Make me a fill-in-the-blank activity where students must list the causes of the American Revolution.
Luna, let’s make a short matching activity that asks students to pair important people from ancient civilizations with their key contributions to society.
Science prompts
Get your students thinking like scientists from the first bell with prompts for Luna, like:
Make a “label the diagram” activity that asks students to name the parts of a plant.
Can you design a 10-question multiple-choice quiz on the states of matter?
I need a drawing and labeling activity about the water cycle.
Write me four true or false questions about the process of photosynthesis.
Share your best prompts
Our team is excited to see what you and Luna can do together this school year. And we bet other teachers would love to learn from you, too. Share your favorite Luna prompts or tips with our community.