Real Time Data
Using the "View Responses" tab allows teachers to receive real time data as students are completing their assignments. Here is a video going into detail on how this tab works and the type of data you can collect:
Live Presence Indicator
In addition, Formative now offers teachers a way to recognize which students are actively accessing their assignments in real time.
If a student's response is not coming in, you can check the live indicator to see if the student is within the formative assignment at that particular moment or not. Look for the green bubble on the student's avatar/initial icon:
Overlapping Presence / Swipe Away Indicator (School & District license feature)
Teachers at organizations with a School & District license have an additional layer of security in the form of the Overlapping Sessions (multiple presence) indicator and a Swipe Away Attempts indicator (available when assigning with LockDown Browser only). These icons will be displayed next to a student's name on the teacher's Responses tab when our system detects that the student account has engaged in one or both of the following actions:
The student account logged into the same formative assignment from multiple sessions, and the last seen time either overlaps with another session or is within 5 minutes of the other session.
The student account attempted to swipe away (exit) the LockDown Browser session without submitting the formative or using the exit password.
Note: If you selected to automatically pause the session for students if they use Swipe Away - the automatic pause will occur after 2 attempts, and you will need to unpause the student's session to allow them to continue working.
The Overlapping Sessions / Swipe Away Attempts indicator is a flag for the teacher for review. While overlapping sessions or attempts to swipe away within a formative could be due to students attempting to cheat, it doesn't necessarily indicate cheating. It is always best to check the details for the overlapping user sessions as well as the swipe away attempts to properly identify the situation and act accordingly.
To reveal the information about the overlapping user sessions detected and/or the amount of swipe away attempts, simply click on the icon and then on 'Review'.
In the pop-up window you will see 3 tabs:
All - includes all suspicious incidents from both tabs below
Paused - includes the students whose LockDown Browser sessions were automatically paused due to multiple swipe away attempts, and the ability to un-pause students' sessions
Overlaps - includes all overlapping sessions detected and the ability to invalidate them. The information displayed on the overlap record will include:
The Device or Operation System in use
The browser used
The IP address
The time stamps for each session (first seen and last seen)
From the overlaps tab, teachers can invalidate active sessions. This action will log the student out from that specific session (Note: it could take up to 15 minutes for the invalidation to take affect on the student side). Simply check-mark the session(s) and click on "Invalidate session". Once invalidated the check-box will be rendered non-clickable again.
Automatic Pause of Student LockDown Browser Session Upon Swipe Away Attempt
When opting in to this assign setting with LockDown Browser, if a student attempts to swipe away more than once, the student's formative session will be automatically paused. This is to allow teachers a chance to review the indication and decide how to address the Swipe Away attempt.
To resume their session, teachers will need to unpause it from their Responses tab by clicking on the 'Play' icon next to the student's name. (students can not unpause their own session).
You could also click into the Review window's Paused tab (as mentioned above) to see the full list of paused sessions and unpause in bulk if needed.
Learn more about pausing and unpausing formative sessions in general here.