What are Answer Choice Explanations?
Formative now offers an AI answer choice explanation generation feature. This is a great way to save time when creating questions and answer choice explanations for your students.
Answer Choice Explanations are immediate feedback notes teachers can add to answer choices that help their students understand any misconceptions they may have as soon as their score is returned.
Supported Question Types
Teachers can add Answer Choice Explanations to answer choices of the following question types:
Multiple Choice
Multiple Selection
True/False
Generate Answer Choice Explanations using AI
Enter your answer choices to the question
Toggle on "Answer Choice Explanations"
Each answer choice will now display an additional field to enter an answer choice explanation
Click on the AI (magic wand) icon to the far right of an answer choice explanation field. (Answer choices with fields that are left blank will simply not display any explanation for the student when chosen)
Choose if you'd like to generate an answer choice explanation only for that specific field or if you'd like to generate answer choice explanations to all the answer choices at once, and let our AI do it's work (it may take a few seconds for the text to generate)
At this time our AI can only generate text-form explanations. If you'd like, you can click on the little + icon to the far right of the answer choice explanation field to add content items such as images, emoji, video or audio recordings, etc. to the generated explanation
When assigning the activity ensure "Return Scores" is set to "instantly", "after student submits", or "when closed" (scores must be returned for answer choice explanation to be displayed)
Student Experience
When an answer choice explanation has been entered, and scores are set to return, students will receive the explanation along with their score.
When scores are set to return instantly, students will click the "check answer" button to find out if their answer is correct or incorrect and the answer choice explanation will appear along with the score at that time.
When scores are set to return after submission or when the activity is closed, the answer choice explanation will appear for the student along with the appearance of the score.
