What are Quick Links?
At times, there may be activity items, reports, internal pages within Formative or external websites that you'd like to catalog within Formative for quick and direct access. For this purpose Formative offers a way to generate a Quick Link to any activity item (formative, folder, or practice set), any internal page within Formative (to include specific Reports), and even external webpages. These Quick Links can then be added to multiple folders within your account.
Generate Quick Links to activity items within Formative
If you'd like a certain activity item (folder, formative, practice set, etc.) from your list to be accessible from different folders in your account:
From your Activities page, check mark the activity item (folder, formative, practice set, etc.) you'd like to generate the Quick Link to
Select "Add Quick Link" from the menu at the bottom of the screen
Select the destination folder you'd like to add the Quick Link to from the hierarchy list presented
Click "Add" to confirm the action
Click into the destination folder you previously selected - the Quick Link is now listed within it
To remove the Quick Link - check mark the Quick Link item and select "delete". Note: deleting a Quick Link will only remove it from the selected location, it will not delete the item itself!
Note: Quick Links are viewable and accessible only to the teacher who generated them within their own account. Adding a Quick Link into a shared folder will not give the collaborators access to it.
Add Quick Links to Formatives or Folders directly into an existing Folder
From your "Activities" page, click into the desired destination folder
Click on "Create +" at the top right corner
Select "Create Quick Link" from the menu, and the option of "Formative or Folder"
Type in a keyword into the search bar, and select the formative or folder of your preference from the dropdown list
Click "Add"
The Quick Link is now added to your folder
Generate Quick Links to other Formative pages or External Webpages
You can also create Quick Links to other pages within Formative such as your account's settings page, or a report (when selecting a report, the Quick Link will save the desired report parameters too!). In the same manner, you can also create Quick Links to external webpages, such as a commonly used web application, your school's LMS, or a certain item saved in Google Drive.
Navigate to the page you'd like to generate a Quick Link to
If selecting a Formative Report - make sure the report parameters are selected to your preference
Copy the full URL of the webpage from the browser's URL bar
Navigate to your Activities tab, and click the "Create +" button at the top right corner to add the Quick Link to your main Activities list (if you access a specific folder, and use these instructions the quick link will be added into that folder only)
Select "Create Quick Link" from the menu, and the option of "Custom Link"
Paste the copied URL into the designated field
Type a name for the Quick Link in the designated field
Click "Add"
The Quick Link is now added
Move Quick Links in and out of folders
You can move multiple Quick Links at once, or one at a time:
Check mark the box next to the quick links on the Activities tab or inside a folder
Click on the "Move" icon
Select a new destination folder from the list (you can click on the + icons to view sub-folders)
Click on "Move":
