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What Formative Plan Is Best For Me?

Side-by-Side feature comparison across our Free, Paid Teacher, School & District, and Balanced Assessment by Formative plans!

Written by Neta Raz Studnitski

If you're debating between keeping the Free Teacher plan, upgrading to our Paid Teacher plan, or exploring the option of a school & district license, the below comparison will provide you with clear information on the features available with each:

Activity Types

Free Teacher

Paid Teacher

School & District

Balanced Assessment by Formative

Lessons

✅

✅

✅

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Practice Sets

✅

✅

✅

✅

Assessments

✅

✅

✅

✅

Common Assessments

✅

✅

Pre-made Content

Free Teacher

Paid Teacher

School & District

Balanced Assessment by Formative

Starter lessons

✅

✅

✅

✅

Released state test items

✅

✅

✅

✅

Standards Aligned Item Bank

Optional Add-on purchase

✅

AI Features

Free Teacher

Paid Teacher

School & District

Balanced Assessment by Formative

Chat with Luna

✅

✅

✅

✅

Luna-powered hints, answer choice explanations, and feedback

✅

✅

✅

PDF Parsing

✅

✅

✅

✅

Luna Next Steps

✅

Luna Configuration Studio

✅

Translations

✅

Question Types

Free Teacher

Paid Teacher

School & District

Balanced Assessment by Formative

Multiple Choice

✅

✅

✅

✅

Multiple Selection

✅

✅

✅

✅

Short Answer

✅

✅

✅

✅

Free Response

✅

✅

✅

✅

True or False

✅

✅

✅

✅

Drawing

✅

✅

✅

✅

Add Show Your Work to any question

✅

✅

✅

Audio Response

✅

✅

✅

Categorize

✅

✅

✅

Drag and Drop

✅

✅

✅

Dropdown

✅

✅

✅

File Response

✅

✅

✅

Fill In The Blank

✅

✅

✅

Graphing

✅

✅

✅

Hot Spot

✅

✅

✅

Hot Text

✅

✅

✅

Match Table Grid

✅

✅

✅

Matching

✅

✅

✅

Number Line

✅

✅

✅

Numeric

✅

✅

✅

Resequence

✅

✅

✅

Video Response

✅

✅

✅

Content Types

Free Teacher

Paid Teacher

School & District

Balanced Assessment by Foramtive

Audio

✅

✅

✅

✅

Embed

✅

✅

✅

✅

Image

✅

✅

✅

✅

Paired Passages

✅

✅

✅

✅

Slide

✅

✅

✅

✅

Text

✅

✅

✅

✅

Video

✅

✅

✅

✅

Content Functionality

Free Teacher

Paid Teacher

School & District

Balanced Assessment by Formative

Add Timestamps to Videos

✅

✅

✅

Google Slides Imports

Limited:

200 pages /month

✅

✅

✅

Document Uploads

Limited:

200 pages /month

✅

✅

✅

Google Forms Imports

Limited:

200 pages /month

✅

✅

✅

Assigning and Scoring

Free Teacher

Paid Teacher

School & District

Balanced Assessment by Formative

Set Answer Key for Auto-Grading

✅

✅

✅

✅

Auto-Grading Partial Credit

✅

✅

✅

Auto-Grading Partial Match

✅

✅

✅

Auto-Grading Case Sensitivity

✅

✅

✅

Teacher-Paced Mode (Present)

✅

✅

✅

✅

Student-Paced Mode (Assign)

✅

✅

✅

✅

Game-Paced Mode (Present)

✅

✅

✅

✅

Sort Responses

✅

✅

✅

✅

Points vs Percentage

✅

✅

✅

✅

Enable Calculator Access

✅

✅

✅

Automatically Add Answers to Key

✅

✅

✅

Batch Scoring and Feedback

✅

✅

✅

✅

Default Assign Settings

✅

✅

✅

Default Point Value

✅

✅

✅

Color Threshold Scoring Option

✅

✅

✅

Print activities with or without responses and feedback

✅

✅

✅

Feedback Tools

Free Teacher

Paid Teacher

School & District

Balanced Assessment by Formative

Return Scores Immediately

✅

✅

✅

✅

View and Project Student Responses

✅

✅

✅

✅

Real Time Feedback

✅

✅

✅

✅

Send Students Feedback on Responses

✅

✅

✅

✅

Add Content Items to Student Feedback

✅

✅

✅

Provide Visual Feedback

✅

✅

✅

Batch Scoring and Feedback

✅

✅

✅

✅

Draw Feedback

✅

✅

✅

Rubrics

✅

✅

✅

2-way Feedback (Teacher/Student)

✅

✅

✅

✅

Test Security and Integrity

Free Teacher

Paid Teacher

School & District

Balanced Assessment by Formative

Assign to Individual Students or Student Groups

✅

✅

✅

Customize Assign Settings

✅

✅

✅

Lock Classes

✅

✅

✅

Schedule Open/Close Times

✅

✅

✅

Setting a Time Limit

✅

✅

✅

Randomize Answer Choices

✅

✅

✅

Randomize Question Order

✅

✅

✅

Entry Password

✅

✅

✅

Copy & Paste Alert

✅

✅

✅

Lockdown Browser Mode (Respondus)

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Optional Add-on purchase

✅

Data Tracking and Export

Free Teacher

Paid Teacher

School & District

Balanced Assessment by Formative

Responses Page View and Export

✅

✅

✅

✅

Response Frequency Chart

✅

✅

✅

✅

Student Progress Tracking

✅

✅

✅

✅

Tag Standards to Questions

✅

✅

✅

✅

14 days Look Back on Teacher Tracker Page (View and Export)

✅

✅

✅

✅

2 years Look Back on Teacher Tracker Page (View and Export)

✅

✅

Standards Tracker for Students

✅

✅

✅

Demographic Data in Results **

✅

✅

Custom Standards

✅

✅

Standards Progress Over Time Report

✅

✅

** The feature requires a specific technical set up and therefore is available only to schools and districts with a School & District license under certain conditions. Contact your client success manager to check your eligibility.

Integrations

Free Teacher

Paid Teacher

School & District

Balanced Assessment by Formative

Google / Clever / Microsoft Single Sign-on

✅

✅

✅

✅

Google Classroom / Clever / MS Teams Roster Sync

✅

✅

✅

✅

Formative Add-on for Google Classroom

✅

✅

✅

✅

Grade Transferrer to Google Classroom

✅

✅

✅

Grade Transferrer to Schoology / Canvas / Blackbaud **

✅

✅

LTI Integrations **

✅

✅

District Provisioning through an API/SFTP connection with a SIS **

✅

✅

District provisioning with ClassLink **

✅

✅

District Provisioning with Clever **

✅

✅

Canvas **

✅

✅

Blackbaud **

✅

✅

Wonde **

✅

✅

Infinite Campus **

✅

✅

Aeries **

✅

✅

Schoology **

✅

✅

itslearning **

✅

✅

Skyward **

✅

✅

Rediker **

✅

✅

Synergy SIS **

✅

✅

** This feature requires a specific technical setup and is available only to schools and districts with a school & district license under certain conditions. Contact your client success manager to check your eligibility.

Collaboration

Free Teacher

Paid Teacher

School & District

Balanced Assessment by Formative

Send a Copy of an Activity

✅

✅

✅

✅

Co-Teach Classes

✅

✅

Common Assessments

✅

✅

Share & Collaborate with Colleagues

✅

✅

Publish Activities to a Private Library

✅

✅

Live Edit Activities Together

✅

✅

Manage Associated Classes

✅

✅

Manage Student Cohorts

✅

✅

Share Student Data

✅

✅

Student Accommodations

Free Teacher

Paid Teacher

School & District

Balanced Assessment by Formative

Time-Limit Extension

✅

✅

Text To Speech

✅

✅

Answer Choice Reduction

✅

✅

Translations

✅

Admin Controls

Free Teacher

Paid Teacher

School & District

Balanced Assessment by Formative

Admin Team-Tracker

✅

✅

Teacher Reports

✅

✅

Usage Reports

✅

✅

Team Management Dashboard

✅

✅

Common Assessments Report

✅

✅

Dedicated Formative Team for Implementation and Client Success Manager

✅

✅

Consultative Implementation Services

Optional Add-on purchase

Custom Assessment Services

Optional Add-on purchase

Live (Virtual or On-Site) Professional Learning

Optional Add-on purchase

Optional Add-on purchase

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