Formative

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Discover how to quickly create an awesome activity so you can gather live insights and track student growth!

Build Activities

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)

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

Editor Navigation Side-Bar, Lessons (Slides) View and Lesson Blocks

Formative & Newsela Integration

Collapsible Formative Editor

Use our ChatGPT integration to generate quizzes, lessons and practice sets!

Use AI to Generate Activities

Use our ChatGPT integraton to generate questions on your formatives!

Use AI to Generate Questions

How to add instructions for your students or for other teachers on activities!

Teacher Notes & Student Instructions

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

Tag Formatives to Type and Data Filtering

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 within Activities (Paid Teacher/School & District license Feature)

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

Create Student Practice Sets

Upload a pre-created assignment document and let our AI automatically pull the questions and text into Formative!

PDF Parsing (Extract Questions and Text)

Create Activities

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

Grab & Edit Pre-Made Formatives from Our Library

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

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

Newsela Authored Graphic Organizers in Formative

Avoid end-of-year surprises! Use Formative year-round to build student confidence and skills, ensuring preparedness for state assessments

State Test Prep with Formative

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

Item Bank (School & District license Add-on)

Grab ready to use items by Newsela from Formative's public library

Library Ready to Use Items

Free Response Question

Multiple Choice question

Multiple Selection question

Short Answer Question

Let's add a question your students can draw on top of!

Drawing Question (Show Your Work)

True or False question

Multi-Part Question Tool

Have your student record an audio response

Audio Response question (Paid Teacher/School & District license Feature)

Categorize question (Paid Teacher/School & District license Feature)

Drag and Drop Questions (Paid Teacher/School & District license feature)

File Response Question (Paid Teacher / School & District Feature)

Students can fill in their answers within the question line

Fill In The Blank question (Paid Teacher / School & District Feature)

Our Graphing question enables your students to graph functions, plot data, evaluate equations, explore transformations, and much more.

Graphing Question (Paid Teacher / School & District Feature)

Number Line Question (Paid Teacher / School & District Feature)

Hot Spot Questions (Paid Teacher / School & District Feature)

Hot Text Questions (Paid Teacher / School & District Feature)

Students can choose and fill in their answer within the question line

Dropdown question (Paid Teacher / School & District Feature)

Match Table Grid Question (Paid Teacher / School & District Feature)

Matching Question (Paid Teacher / School & District Feature)

Allow your students to answer using our built-in equation editor!

Numeric question (Paid Teacher / School & District Feature)

Resequence question (Paid Teacher / School & District Feature)

Have your students record or upload video in response to a question

Video Response (Paid Teacher / School & District Feature)

Question Types

Your students will be required to answer certain questions on a formative before submitting

Set Required Questions

Set point value

Learn how to set an answer key for auto-grading on all compatible question types

Set Answer key for Auto-Grading

As a Paid Teacher or a School & District license member, you can enable auto-grading by partial match or partial credit.

Partial Match and Partial Credit (Paid Teacher / School & District Feature)

Styling and Hyperlinking Text

Learn how to add content items such as Files, Images, Videos, Audio, Emojis, and more - directly into questions and answer choices!

Add Content Items Directly into Questions and Answer Choices!

Different devices allow you to access special characters and accents in different ways. Use this guide to figure out how to add them!

Add Special Characters and Accents

You can use Formative for Spelling assessments!

Spell Check

Add Tables to Questions

Give students bonus opportunities without penalizing their overall score

Mark a Question as Extra Credit

Adjust Question Settings

Add video content to your activities, even add questions at specific timestamps!

Add Videos and Video Timestamps

Add Images and PDFs To Formatives

Embed a website, or embed any file from Google Drive!

Embed

Text Block

Use our ChatGPT integraton to generate text passages!

Use AI to Generate Text Passages

Add Audio

Paired Passages

Import Google Slides into Formative

Import Google Forms into Formative

Add Content Items

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