To get to the "Responses" tab:

You can see which students have not started the formative, have started but not submitted, and which have submitted. It also shows which questions they are getting right or wrong as they answer them!

Here is an example of a formative in progress on the Responses tab:

Autograded answers show with the standard color scheme. If you are a Silver/Gold user, you have the option of adjusting these thresholds:

In our example:

The Responses tab also presents the option to change the assignment settings of the formative itself.

Click the symbol presented next to the class' title to reveal the dropdown menu:

There are additional help center articles that elaborate on these, but in brief:

It can be helpful for you to change the way the Responses tab displays, both for sorting information and when sharing your screen.

From the menu at the top of the Responses tab, you can

Clicking the "Sort By" button at the top right corner will give you a wide arrey of sorting options. By default your view will sort by "Active" students first (active students are those who have the formative open on their devices at that particular moment, they will also have a green live indicator next to their avatar to indicate they are active). Other sorting options include by student name (first or last, A-Z or Z-A), by submission date or by scores. Silver/Gold users can also randomize the list's order.

You can view your students' progress overall on a formative from the "Responses" tab. You can also toggle to view their responses for just a single question or zero in on a single student's response. In this section you can read about:

Viewing responses sorted by standards is covered in this article.

The "Responses" tab will initially open on the "totals" view, which looks like this:

The average score for questions is shown at the top to give you an idea of how the class is doing with each question. All students show up under their class/org. From here you can navigate to other views.

Click on a single question number and it will show all student responses for that particular question. This view allows you to see your students' responses as they enter them in real-time!

From this view you can also select individual responses or multiple responses and perform actions such as sending feedback, manually grading, and more.

Clicking the 3 vertical dots next to the question prompt on the far right will present you with a dropdown menu that offers the options to zoom responses in or out, as well as show the question details, i.e. the correct answer(s), the point value, and the standards tagged to the question.

By clicking on an individual student response, a window will open on the right side of your screen, allowing you to interact with that student. From this window you can adjust the score for the answer, send your student real-time or delayed feedback, and even clear the student's response if needed.

Clicking the sideways arrows next to the question number at the top right corner of this side window will allow you to navigate to the previous or the next question response by the same student.

Alternatively, clicking the up or down arrows around a student's name will allow you to navigate to the previous or next student in your class roster to view their response to the same question.

You can make the right-side panel full screen, which is helpful for checking longer answers like Show Your Work or long Free Response. Click on the square icon next to the X in the upper right to enter full-screen mode for a single response.

Note: if you set your formative to return scores instantly on auto-graded questions that do not require keyboard entries, students will have the option to check if their answer is correct as they take the formative. Formative will record the amount of attempts made by the student and will display the number of attempts on the answer tiles in this view

From this singular question view, you can also open the Responses Frequency Chart. This allows you to see how many students gave a particular response to a question. To access the Frequency chart view, click the "Frequency" button to view the Frequency chart which will present you with additional response data for the following question types:

Using the "Filters" button you can define which classes to showcase in the Frequency Chart. You can choose to view the results for one class, a few classes, or all at the same time. You can also toggle the "save filters" button at the bottom of the panel to save your filters as the default moving forward (or turn the default off by un-toggling it).

An "Overall Average" bar will appear at the top of the chart for each of the questions. This "Overall Average" will calculate the average response rate for all the classes selected.

Within the Frequency Chart view you can hover over the frequency bar to reveal the class name, the response percentage and the student count for each of the response options.

Clicking on the bars within the frequency chart will open the right side panel where you can view the full list of students who provided this response, adjust everyone's score at once, send them all instant or delayed feedback at once, or even remove their responses if needed.

You can look at a singular student's submission for all question on a formative in one view as well. This is helpful if you want to grade one student at a time or go over an assignment with an individual student.

If you have assigned a formative to multiple classes, they will each show separately on the Responses tab. Students for each class will be nested under their class heading.

If "guest students" completed the formative, those results will be visible under "Guest Students." Guests are not associated with a class and therefore appear in a separate list.

Please note: We do not recommend using guest codes with students who have a formative account as guest logins are temporary, one-use logins. Guest students can not access the formative again once they've exited it, and if deleted - their scores can not be restored. Please have your students log in using their account credentials, and use guest codes only if absolutely necessary.

If you created an answer key for a question, it will automatically be scored on the Responses tab. You can change the score or, as a Silver/Gold user, add answers to the answer key for certain question types.

Click on a single student's response to expand it to the right-hand side panel. From there you can type in a score out of the total number of points, or simply move the score bar.

Silver/Gold users can also add manually-graded responses to the answer key with a single click. This will update your answer key so that other students with the same response are auto-graded as correct!

Note: An answer key must have been defined for a question for the system to offer you to add another response to it from this view. If you haven't defined an answer key for auto-grading in advance, you will need to manually choose the student responses and grade them. You can use Group Scoring (see below)

We have recently introduced a new design to this capability! Instead of clicking the circle next to the students' names, a checkbox will appear on the top right corner of the student's response card to check-mark and multi-select students. In the meanwhile:

Manually scoring students one by one can be a daunting mission. Formative makes it easier and faster by allowing the teacher to select a group of students and score them with one click!

From the Responses tab, you can comment on an individual response or, if you are a Silver/Gold user, give group feedback.

To give feedback for one response, click on that answer. A side panel will appear with the student's response and score. Type your message into the "feedback" section at the bottom of the panel (If you have opted in to Formative's Early Access to Beta Features, you will also be able to generate feedback using AI)

Feedback appears to the student as a notification and they can respond to it in Formative as long as the assignment is still open or if you allow them to view after submission. (These are options that can be adjusted in the Additional Assign Settings.) You can delay feedback if you want to type it now but have it appear later, for instance after the assignment is closed.

Group feedback, a Silver/Gold feature, can be sent to multiple students by selecting each response that needs the feedback:

When feedback has been sent or received an icon will appear on the response bubble. You can easily tell who sent the last feedback message, the teacher or the student, but the color of the icon: Red icons will appear when the last message is from the student, and Blue icons will appear when the last message is from the teacher.

You can remove a student's response to the entire formative at once or to individual questions.

When students complete a formative, they are given a prompt to submit it. You can watch students answer in real time from the Responses tab. There will be a green checkmark next to their name once they have submitted the assignment.

A student may not submit the formative for any number of reasons, so you can submit it on their behalf.

To force submit for one student, click on that student's name. From the side panel, select the dropdown and then select "Force submission."

To force submit for the entire class or multiple classes:

You can unsubmit individual student formatives if you wish to allow them to retake an assignment.

Closing the assignment will execute the additional assign settings for closed assignments. More about how to close a formative and troubleshooting is in this article.

From the Responses tab, you can close an assignment by clicking on the lightning bolt dropdown and selecting "Close assignment."

If the assignment has a red padlock icon, it means it's already closed. You can reopen it if you need to by following the same steps and selecting "Open assignment."

Closing the assignment will not automatically force submissions so if you open it again, it will allow students who did not submit to complete their formative.

Enable re-dos and retakes

Remove responses

View responses grouped by standards