🆕 Enhancement releases
We've been busy! Here's a sneak peek at the new features and improvements we released between July 2025 and September 2025:
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. Teachers can also upload their PDFs and images into the Luna chat to create assessments.
Updated Activities List
The Activities List now uses button navigation for My Activities and Shared with Me, helping users keep things organized and reduce clutter when common assessments and folders are shared across schools and districts.
Editor Enhancements
When creating a new Formative, an advanced editor will be providing a more robust and modern editing experience for content creators.
Item Bank Assessment Versatility
The Item Bank's Supported Item SubTypes list now includes 'categorize matching' and 'hotSpot' question types, providing educators with a broader range of interactive and engaging assessment options when finding assessment items.
Math Tools
We’ve rolled out powerful math-specific features to level up math instruction and assessment.
Equivalencies: Formative now recognizes mathematically equivalent answers like 1/2, 0.5, or 2/4 as correct in numeric question types.
Interactive Number Line: Students can plot points, inequalities, and intervals right on the number line, ideal for visual learning and building number sense.
Dynamic Questions: Educators can easily create a single question that auto-generates different values for each student—enabling personalized practice and reducing opportunities for cheating, all without extra prep.
New Languages for Student Translation Tool
We’ve added Nepali, Telugu, Tamil, and Bosnian to available translations. This supports a wider range of multilingual learners and promotes equity in the classroom.
Submit for Students (formerly Force Submit) Visibility
Teachers will now see when a student's submission has been forced by the teacher. This transparency helps clarify submission issues and ensures teachers have the full context.
Generate Similar Questions from the 3-Dot Menu
Teachers can now generate similar questions directly from the 3-dot menu within assessments. This streamlines the process of creating practice or scaffolded items, helping teachers better differentiate instruction and provide targeted support for students.
Translated Text-to-Speech
Text-to-Speech now reads content in the same language as the student’s selected translation. This improves accessibility and creates a more consistent experience for multilingual learners.
AI-powered item generator in Item Bank
We've added an AI-powered item generator to Formative's Item Bank! When a filter returns no results, users can instantly generate up to 10 high-quality items tailored to their selected grade, subject, question type, difficulty, language, and standards.
The model has been trained in collaboration with our Newsela content experts, so users can be confident that they are getting a high-quality item!
🛠️ Fixes
Every technological tool runs into hiccups here and there. If you run into any technical issues please submit a report to our team so we could go ahead and fix it!
Internationalization
The system now automatically adjusts text direction for relevant languages, significantly improving readability and user experience for speakers of right-to-left languages like Hebrew and Arabic.
Language Support
Italian has been added as an option to the accent keyboard, enabling more accurate and accessible text input for Italian language users.