As a Silver/Gold plan user, you can schedule your formative to open and close on designated days and at designated times.

Your Formative assignment will appear as a draft assignment until the scheduled open time, at which point it will appear as an assignment on your Classwork page!
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Note: If you've enabled Retakes on a formative, once Close time arrives the formative will close for all students regardless of the amount of attempts they managed to complete by that time.
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Teachers can schedule a due date on a formative for each class. This setting will present a notification for the students when they are expected to submit their work, and they will also see a clear notification once the formative is past due.

On your end, if a student submitted their work past the due date, you will see an indication of it on your end as well.

This setting can be turned on separately from the automatic Open/Close times, meaning: You could set a specific Due Date but set the automatic Close date a few days later, giving students a grace period to submit prior to the formartive closing automatically. Having the indication of a late submission on your end will allow you to act upon the late submission per your discretion.

Note: If you've enabled Retakes on a formative, any attempt taken after the due date has passed will be marked as Late Submission.

To set a Due Date:

Indication of late submissions will be displayed on the "Responses" tab, both with an icon next to the student name and with a written message within the side-panel when expanding the student's submission. Hovering over the icon next to the student's name will provide you with the date and time the student opened the formative, the due date/time, and the the date and time the student submitted.
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Silver/Gold users can set a time limit on any Formative. This will limit the amount of time a student has to complete the Formative, and will automatically submit when the time runs out. This can be particularly useful when conducting an assessment.

Note: If you're a Gold user and students in your class have a Time Limit Accommodation set up, as soon as you define the Time Limit for the formative you will be able to see a list of those students and if needed adjust their accommodation for the specific formative from your assign tab.

To set a Time Limit:

Your students will now have a time limit that will begin once they open the Formative!

The Total Attempts setting gives you the option to enable a pre-defined amount of up to four (4) attempts on the same formative, which will allow your students to do a full Retake (or several of them) after they submit the formative for the first time. Enabling multiple attempts will also record all the student responses across all attempts they take, and while only the latest attempt's score will be returned and counted for data reporting - you will be able to view all the responses entered by your students on all the attempts they've taken. Click here to learn all about how Retakes / Multiple Attempts work!

Clicking the carrot next to this setting you can choose between 1, 2, 3 or 4 total attempts from the dropdown menu:

The After Submission settings allow you to decide if students can edit their responses after submitting (useful for Free Response questions or just to keep learning happening), and whether or not students can still see a formative on their dashboard after they submit.
Clicking the carrot next to this setting will allow you to choose one of the following options from a dropdown menu:

​"Allow Edits" - Students will be able to edit and re-submit the formative as long as this setting is enabled or the formative is open:

Note: When you enable this setting, there is no limit to the number of edits a student can make. Answers that have been changed after grading are labeled with a red exclamation mark.

"Make Hidden" - The formative will appear on the student's dashboard but the content of the formative will not be accessible after the student submits. Students attempting to access the formative after submitting will receive notification that the formative has been hidden by the teacher. When enabling "Make Hidden" you cannot set correct answers to return to students. You can only set scores to return.

​"Keep visible (no edits allowed)" - Students will be able to see the formative on their dashboard and view the contents after they've submitted it, but they won't be able to edit it.

While it is true that students cannot edit their answers when the assign setting is "Keep visible no edits", teachers and students can still exchange feedback.

Note: If you are a Silver/Gold user, you can set default After Submission settings on your Settings page.
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if you would like to return scores or correct answers to your students, you must choose "Keep visible" or "Allow edits" before you can adjust the settings for returning scores / correct answers.
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You have many different options for returning scores to your students. Note that:

Clicking the carrot next to Return Scores will allow you choose one of the following options:
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"Instantly" - Scores will be returned to students as they are working to complete their work. If a question is auto-graded and does not require any keyboard entries (for example, multiple selection or multiple choice question types), students will have the option to reveal their score and check if their answer is correct as they are taking the formative by clicking the button "Check Answer".

Formative will record the amount of attempts made by the student and will display the number of attempts on the responses tiles on the teacher's end:

"When closed" - Students will get their scores back when you close a formative. These scores will appear on their dashboard.

If you re-open the formative, students will be unable to see their scores until you close it again or choose another option.
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​"After student submits" - Students will get their scores back immediately after they submit, even if the formative is still open to other students. These scores will appear on their dashboard, next to the "Submitted" button. If they've already submitted a formative once, their scores will continue to update.

*Note: You can always decide later and come back at any time to pick an option to return scores!

Silver/Gold users can set a default return scores setting on the account's Settings page.

Returning correct answers is very similar to returning scores. Similarly, note that:

Clicking the carrot next to Return correct answers will allow you to choose from the following options:

Formative's traditional format allows for self-paced lessons and assessments that provide real-time data, so teachers can send immediate feedback. Scrolling through a screen filled with numerous questions can sometimes be overwhelming for students. To increase focus on individual questions and avoid confusion, teachers now have the ability to assign formatives to show one item** at a time. Students assigned these type of formatives will have control when to move on from one item to the next.

**Note: an item is any of the following:

When students access a formative with this assign settings, they will see the first item on their screen. To move on to the next items, students will need to click the "Next" button located on the top right side of their screen.

Students also have the option to navigate back to former questions by clicking the "Previous" button located on the top left side of their screen.

The last page will show the "Submit" button at the top right side of the screen in stead of the "Next" button.

Want to guide students through a lesson or assessment so everyone can stay on the same page? Try Formative's "Present" mode (Teacher-Paced)
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As a Gold user you can randomize the question order for your students! This is a particularly useful feature when you assign a formative as a test/exam.

Toggle on the button next to "Display questions in random order" and each student will see a different version.

Note: When randomizing questions, the randomization will appear only on the students' end. The teacher's version will remain in the original order, including within the Preview mode. The responses tab for the teacher will also present the questions in the original order.

This feature will randomize text blocks and other content as well as questions! If you have an image (for example) that needs to be locked to a question, make sure that you upload the image directly in the question - not as a separate content block.

You can randomize questions that are attached to a PDF, however, this will not move what is actually written on the document. Only the question numbers will change. We don't recommend using randomize for formatives that are made using uploaded and enhanced PDFs because this will be confusing to students.

Formative and Respondus have teamed up to provide you with the power to quickly and easily create secure testing environments with just a few clicks!

If your school has purchased this powerful add-on, you will be able to choose it on your screen. Please see the Respondus LockDown Browser help article to learn more!

Formative and ClassClac partnered to enable an integration calculator on the Formative experience. By enabling the calculator in this section, students will be able to utilize the chosen calculator on their end when completing the formative.

Toggle on the "Learning Tools" button, and proceed to select your preferred calculator from the dropdown menu
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Clicking the Calculator icon will open the calculator selected by the teacher

When Entry Password is enabled, students will be required to enter the defined password in order to access the assigned formative. Once the formative has been submitted and scores returned the Entry Password will be disabled and students will be able to re-access the formative for viewing without it (unless blocked via other assign settings such as "keep hidden" after submission).

This setting allows you to add students to the class(es) you're assigning this formative to without navigating away from the assigning process. This is a great solution if you realize that your class roster is out of date after you already started assigning.

Click here for step-by-step instructions on adding or inviting students to classes, and importing classes from the services listed above.

If you do not want to assign a formative to your entire class, you can select which students have access to it. This can be useful for re-takes, extra practice, to deter cheating, or any other reason you would like some students to take a different formative from other classmates.

Tips:

If students have Global Time LImit Extension or Text to Speech accommodations that are not relevant to your class or to this specific formative - you can adjust or turn them off for the specific formative from this setting.