Formative

Learn how to add questions and content, upload and enhance images, re-order, delete and restore items, and how to preview your activity!

Building an Activity (the Formative / Lesson Editor)

Access and copy ready-to-use content made by our amazing educators!

Grab & Edit Pre-Made Formatives from Our Library

Build and edit formatives more quickly by utilizing the navigation side-bar on formative editor pages!

NEW! Editor Navigation Side-Bar, Presentation (Slides) View and Lesson Blocks

Formative & Newsela Integration

New to Formative’s Library and Newsela Search: 300+ Ready-to-Use Activities for Science Explainers and Primary Sources

New! Ready To Use Formative Activities for Science Explainers and Primary Sources by Newsela

Teachers can utilize ready to use Newsela authored graphic organizers in Formative

NEW! Newsela Authored Graphic Organizers in Formative

New! Collapsible Formative Editor (Early Access)

Use our ChatGPT integraton to generate full formatives!

Use AI to Generate Formatives

Use our ChatGPT integraton to generate questions on your formatives!

Use AI to Generate Questions

Thousands of ready to use professionally created items and questions, tagged to DOKs and standards

Item Bank (School & District license Add-on)

To your eyes only notes and instructions on formatives!

Teacher Instructions / Notes

Organize your formatives by setting and tagging the type of assignment!

Set Formative Type

Learn how to add question hints for your students

Add Hints to Questions

Help your students understand their misconceptions and close the feedback loop early!

Answer Choice Explanations

Use the Math keyboard (Equation Editor)

Use LaTeX to write Math notation in-line with text!

Using LaTeX in Formative

Allow students to show their thinking along with a final answer

Add Show Your Work to any question (Paid Teacher/School & District License Feature)

Add a custom-made rubric to any open-ended question type

Use a Rubric (Paid Teacher / School & District Feature)

Organize activities by grouping questions into sections

Creating Sections on an Activity (Paid Teacher/School & District license Feature)

Build student practice sets of flash cards and share them with your students!

Create Student Practice

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