We've been busy! Here's a sneak peek at our August 2023 new features and improvements:

Users with accounts both in Newsela and in Formative will be able to use this new integration. Find out more here!

We have added a Tooltip and hotkeys to the Drawing panel on the Drawing question type and Show Your Work boxes

We will now allow users to log in with only their email address, no password required. Users can choose the email icon, receive a link to their email and will be logged in once the link is clicked.

We added the ability to link user's SSO email accounts in profile page. We now also give users the option to unlink an account or to disable a password in their account settings.

We now allow answer choices to be reused on Drag and Drop questions.

We will now show Folder permissions and updates in the Collaborator's Activity Log.

Students can now see their rubric scores when scores are returned! Checkmarks will appear to show how the students was graded.

We added a route for admins to view the new class management page in the triple dot class menu, Admin>Org> Triple Dot. This makes it easier to find the Formatives associated with the class and the student list.

The toggle can be found under "Noficiations" on the Settings page

We now allow drawn content to be uploaded as content for questions. This comes to replace the deprecated option for Whiteboard content

We have renamed the Show Your Work question type to "Drawing". The Show Your Work option under question types, will remain as is and no functionality has changed.

The below features have been added to our list of future features teachers can opt-in to test with us:

When using the AI generator to generate questions, teachers can now choose to generate hints along with the questions from within the same modal

Teachers can opt-in to test this new assign or present workflow

Several exciting updates were made to student practice sets recently, see all of them below:

Just click the "Add+" button to create a new practice set. You can add grade and subject at a later time by clicking on "edit settings"

Teachers can now POST Student Practice directly to their classes! Once posted, the practice set will appear on students' Practice dashboard in a non-editable version

Teachers can share a practice set with teachers and students. Simply click "Share"

Students will see a "Streak" message when they get 3 in a row correct on Practice Sets

Match Game is live! Student can play the Match Game as an option in Student Practice sets!

Every techonological tool runs into hiccups here and there. If you run into any technical issues please submit a report to our team so we could go ahead and fix it!

Auto-Generated Categorize questions will now generate at least 3 categories.

Teachers no longer need to click "edit" to view collaborators in the Share modal. Collaborators will appear in a scrollable list instead. Also, when a formative is added to a shared folder, teachers will be notified the formative will also be shared with collaborators on the folder.

We separated the different functions that used to live under the "Share" modal into independent buttons. Teachers will now see separate buttons for the following functions on formatives:

On the Formatives main page, the menu was also changed to accommodate for the different function:

Teachers can now move timestamped questions and content items that were added to videos to different time points of the video by dragging the markers on the video timeline to the new location

We have updated the Add Image / Add Documents modals to include a clickable drop down rather than buttons for each type of addition

We added the option to add correct answers from the sidebar of Fill In The Blank questions

The below bugs were resolved throught the month