Notification Types
Teachers can opt in our out of certain types of notifications. Read below to learn more about the types of notifications Formative offers.
Reminder Emails
Teachers can opt in to receiving daily reminder emails containing unread notifications from within Formative.
New Response Notification
Teachers have the option to get notified when new responses comes in. There are three types of new responses notifications:
Response Edited After Graded
You will get notified when a student edits a previously entered response after the work has already been graded (manual grading only!)Student Submission (all)
You will get notified when students submit a formativeOnly Late Submissions
You will get notified when a student submits a formative ONLY if the submission is after the defined due date
Response Edited After Graded
Notifications will be sent out only for answers that were edited by the student after they were manually graded by the teacher, and they exist to indicate to the teacher that he/she may need to go back and change that grade based on the newly edited response.
When questions are auto-graded there will be no notifications since the grades will automatically update whenever students edit their responses, thus removing the need for a notification to the teacher (the teacher doesn't need to re-check the test, the system does it automatically).
Student Submission
Notifications will be sent out when a student clicks on the "Submit" button. This notificfation is very handy if you have students submitting work at different times and you'd like to be made aware when a new submission has been entered so you could review it.
Only Late Submissions
Notifictions will be sent out when a student clicks the "Submit" button after the due date of the fromative has passed. This notification is handy if you have set a due date on the formative and want to be made aware when a late submission is entered.
Note: this setting is a sub-setting of "Student Submission". To enable it, you will first need to toggle on Student Submission and only then you will be able to restrict the Student Submission notifications to Late Submissions only.
Other Notifications
Student Requested A Hint
Notification will be sent whenever a student requests to view a hint you've added to a question.
Co-Teacher Added to Class (Admin feature)
Admins at School & District licensed orgs will receive a notification when a co-teacher is added to a section, that they are not the owners of, within their orgs.
Enable/Disable Notifications
If you're interested in receiving notifications, go to your account settings by clicking "My Account" and choosing "settings", then proceed to toggle on notification options, to your preference.
If you change your mind, and want to opt out of getting notifications again, go back to your account settings and toggle the option off.
