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View Student Timeline (Activity)

Find out exactly when and how your students are working in Formative.

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Written by Neta Raz Studnitski
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Formative offers teachers the ability to view students' timeline of general activity in Formative within the last 90 days, as well as students' full timeline of activity within any individual formative (without time limit).

Available Information on the Timeline

  • Student started answering a formative

  • Student answered a question

  • Student submitted a formative

You can even tell when a student answered a question that was later deleted by the teacher. The alert will look like this:

Viewing General Student Timeline

There are two pathways to access the General Student Timeline log:

Option 1: Accessing the Timeline log from the Student Profile

  1. From the Student Management page, click on the carat to the far right of the student record to access the Student Profile page

  2. Click on "Timeline" to view the log

Option 2: Accessing the Timeline log directly from the Student Management page

  1. From the Student Management page, check mark the box next to the student's name

  2. Choose "Timeline" from the menu at the bottom of the screen.

  3. You will navigate directly to the log

Viewing Student Timeline For a Specific Formative

To view student activity on a specific formative, start by navigating to the formative's Responses tab:

  1. From the formative's Responses tab, click on the student's name to expand the right-side responses panel

  2. Click the carat next to "Student Timeline" at the bottom of the right-side panel

  3. Scroll through the timeline to view what the student did in the formative and when

  4. To exit the activity log, scroll to the top and click the carat next to "Student Timeline" again

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