You can navigate to the "Responses" tab from within the formative itself or directly from the "Activities" page

Icons next to student names will indicate the student's participation status (see chart below). A color-coded display of student performance on each question will appear in real time as the students enter their responses to auto-graded questions, and icons on the color-coded cells will indicate a need for the teacher's additional attantion.

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

Formative 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 at the bubble on the student's avatar/initial icon - if it's green the student is currently active within the formative and it it is gray the student is not actively within the formative at that time:

Autograded responses are color-coded based on the standard color scheme displayed below. If you are a Paid Teacher plan subscriber or a School & District licensed member, you have the option of adjusting these thresholds.

The Responses tab also presents the option to take actions on the formative's assignment settings.

Click the icon presented next to the class' title to reveal the dropdown menu (could be lightning-bolt, suitcase, or calendar icons)
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The dedicated help center articles elaborating on these actions are linked below, and in brief:

The Responses tab offers multiple sorting and presentation options to organize the information displayed. Sorting order preference that is chosen will be saved and the Responses tab will continue to display this chosen order every time the teacher navigates to the Responses tab until the teacher actively changes the preference to something else.

Use the responses grouping dropdown to select how to display the distribution of student performance on the formative. You can select grouping by questions, by standards, by sections, or by rubrics.

Note: only options that are relevant to your formative will be clickable. If there are no sections, standards or rubrics in the formative these options will be grayed out.

Clicking the "Settings" button will display the options to:

The sorting dropdown will provide you with a wide array 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: ungraded first, by student name (first or last, A-Z or Z-A), by submission date, or by scores. Paid Teacher plan subscribers and School & District licensed members can also randomize the list's order.

The main view of the "Responses" tab displays all your students' overall performance on a formative. From this "Totals" view you have the option to drill down further and view all student responses for 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 and their performance is displayed on the grid next to their names. From here you can navigate to other views as described in the following sections of this article.

If you've enabled multiple attempts (retakes) on the formative, only the latest attempt will count as the final one and its' score will be returned to the student and counted toward data reporting. This "Totals" view is where you will be able to view how each student did on all the attempts they've taken previously and if needed you will be able to adjust the scores on the final attempt based on your observations of the previous attempts (for example if you'd like to give a student extra credit for effort). Whatever score you manually enter will over-ride the system's auto-scoring and will be both returned to the student as their final score and included in data reporting.

From the "Totals" view click on any single question number at the top of the grid and you'll be redirected to the specific question's gallery view. This gallery view displays all student responses for that particular question only. This view also 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 by check-marking the checkbox within the response tiles, and perform actions such as sending feedback, manually grading, and more (continue reading to learn about these options!)

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 tile - either from the main "Totals" view or from the individual question Gallery view - a right-side panel will open on your screen, allowing you to interact with that student's response. From this window you can adjust scores manually, 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 left corner of this right-side panel will allow you to navigate to the previous or the next question to view the response to it by the same student.

Alternatively, clicking the up or down arrows around a student's name within the right-side panel 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 enlarge the right-side panel to full screen, which is helpful for checking longer answers like Drawings or long Free Responses. Click on the square icon at the top of the panel to enter full-screen mode for a single response.

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).

Use the Settings button to set your desired results parameters. You can choose to:

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.

Any answers that received Partial Credit are also marked clearly on the frequency chart with a yellow indicator:

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.

To view student activity on a specific formative, start by clicking on the student's name to expand the right-side responses panel

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 Paid Teacher plan subscriber or a School & District licensed member, add answers to the answer key for certain question types.

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

Paid Teacher plan subscribers and School & District licensed members 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!

As a reminder, if you've enabled multiple attempts (retakes) on the formative, only the latest attempt will count as the final one and its' score will be returned to the student and counted toward data reporting. To change the final score for students you will need to adjust the question's score on the latest attempt made by the student as changing it on any other attempts will not effect the final score. Whatever score you manually enter to the latest attempt will over-ride the system's auto-scoring and will be both returned to the student as their final score and included in data reporting.

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 Paid Teacher plan subscriber or a School & District licensed member, provide 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. To make sending feedback even quicker and easier, your three most recent unique feedback messages will be displayed below the feedback section, you can click on any of them to quickly enter them into the feedback section. No worries, you will have the option to edit them before hitting "send".
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You can also pin recent feedback messages you want to pop-up for you as options every time! Simply click the small pin icon:

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 Paid Teacher plan / School & District license feature, can be sent to multiple students by selecting multiple response tiles simultaneously:

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, by 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.

Any feedback message you send to your students or receive from them on an individual question while taking a formative that has retakes enabled on it - on any of the attempts - will carry over to all the following attempts. This will allow both you and the student to maintain a flow of communication throughout the whole process - from the moment the formative is assigned until the student has finished taking all possible attempts:

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.

If a student did not submit the formative for any reason, 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."

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 submit so if you open it again, it will allow students who did not submit to complete their formative.

When a a formative is closed, the formative will close at that time for all assigned students, regardless of the number of attempts they managed to take by that time.

Enable re-dos and retakes

View responses grouped by standards