Build or Find a Formative

Getting to Know the Dashboard

What do the icons and symbols on the teacher dashboard mean?

Written by Aaron Tarbell
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Set Formative Type

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

Written by Aaron Tarbell
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Grab and Edit a Copy of a Formative from Our Library

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

Written by Rebecca Worden
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Combine Your Formatives or Add a Question From The Library

Combine Formatives by adding questions from an existing Formative. Or search questions in our library, and add them to your formative!

Written by Rebecca Worden
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Enhance a PDF/Doc/Image/Google Doc

Upload pre-existing documents and worksheets!

Written by Rebecca Worden
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Premium: Video Response

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

Written by Aaron Tarbell
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Add a Question

Written by Rebecca Worden
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Multiple Choice question

Written by Rebecca Worden
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True or False question

Written by Rebecca Worden
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Short Answer Question

Written by Rebecca Worden
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Free Response

Written by Rebecca Worden
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Show Your Work question

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

Written by Craig Jones
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Multiple Selection question

Written by Rebecca Worden
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Use the Math keyboard (Equation Editor)

Add math to any question type!

Written by Rebecca Worden
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Premium: Drag and Drop Questions

Written by Neta Raz Studnitski
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Premium: File Response Question

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Premium: Match Table Grid Question

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Premium: Fill In The Blank question

Students can fill in their answers within the question line

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Premium: Hot Text Questions

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Premium: In Line Choice question

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

Written by Neta Raz Studnitski
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Premium: Use a Rubric

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

Written by Aaron Tarbell
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Premium: Matching Question

Written by Sarah McGull
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Premium: Categorize question

Written by Rebecca Worden
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Premium: Resequence question

Written by Rebecca Worden
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Premium: Audio Response question

Have your student record an audio response

Written by Rebecca Worden
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Premium: Numeric question

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

Written by Rebecca Worden
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Premium: Graphing question

Written by Rebecca Worden
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Premium: Partial Match and Partial Credit

As a Premium user, you can enable auto-grading by partial match or partial credit.

Written by Rebecca Worden
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How we grade the "Allow Partial Credit" feature: Matching questions

Find out how auto-grading works for Matching questions!

Written by Aaron Tarbell
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How we grade the "Allow Partial Credit" feature: Multiple Selection questions

Find out how auto-grading works for Multiple Selection questions!

Written by Rebecca Worden
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How we grade the "Allow Partial Credit" feature: Categorize questions

Find out how auto-grading works for Categorize questions!

Written by Rebecca Worden
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How we grade the "Allow Partial Credit" feature: Resequence questions

Find out how auto-grading works for Resequence questions!

Written by Rebecca Worden
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Premium: Add Show Your Work to any question

Allow students to show their thinking along with a final answer

Written by Rebecca Worden
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Video Timestamps

Our Premium and Partner users are able to add questions to videos that will appear to students at a given time.

Written by Aaron Tarbell
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Add content

Written by Rebecca Worden
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Add Special Characters and Accents

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

Written by Aaron Tarbell
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Add Images To Formatives

Written by Rebecca Worden
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Video

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

Written by Rebecca Worden
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How To Use The Camera Feature

Use the built-in camera on your device to add images anywhere within Formative.

Written by Kylie Cavanaugh
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Text Block

Written by Rebecca Worden
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Embed

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

Written by Rebecca Worden
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White Board

Written by Rebecca Worden
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Premium: Record Audio

Written by Rebecca Worden
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Restore Deleted Questions

Written by Juliann Green
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Set point value

Written by Rebecca Worden
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Styling and Hyperlinking Text

Written by Rebecca Worden
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Set Answer key for Auto-Grading

Written by Rebecca Worden
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Delete a question

Written by Rebecca Worden
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Add Images To Questions!

Written by Rebecca Worden
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Duplicate a question

Written by Rebecca Worden
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Re-order questions

Re-ordering questions is a simple as 1-2-3

Written by Rebecca Worden
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Preview your formative

Written by Rebecca Worden
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