Your new go-to tool for student growth!
Check out the last slide..new certificate of completion for PD credit
- Go to goformative.com and click on “Join Code”
2. Enter the following assignment code: UURQWY
3. Answer the questions and watch your responses come in live!
Formative teaching
quickly identifying what students know AND intervening so they can learn more
Quickly Inform Your Teaching
- Adjust your teaching approach based on student progress
- Effectively pace lessons
- Group students on the fly
"Just by looking at the images, I could see whether they were getting the gist of the poem."
Give every student immediate feedback
- Give instant written feedback that furthers student learning
- Set an answer key for auto-scoring and give scores back instantly!
"I can instantly see what you're needing to improve on and let you improve on it...so that on the care meter now it's higher, now it's instant, now you can change it."
Make Sure Every Voice is Heard
"I was able to see and praise responses from my students who never raise their hand."
- Project live responses with or without names
- Generate rich class discussions based on student work (exemplars, strategies, misconceptions)
- Engage students! Let them explain their work or the work of a peer!
Make instructional planning better and easier
- Decide what standards you need to focus on based on class and individual student averages
- Find out how you can best support individual students based on portfolios provided for each standard
- Inform collaborative planning (grade teams, co-teachers, IEPs) based on insights
Easily show student growth
- Share a bird’s eye view of student growth. The tracker automatically populates with averages based on student responses and the scores (no data-entry necessary).
- Share deep insights into student growth. The tracker also automatically populates with a student’s history of responses for every standard (from the first to the latest).
Sign up at goformative.com
Fill in the Appropriate Fields for a Quick Profile!
Add a question or a piece of content
- Select the “+” symbol
Example of adding a question: Short Answer
Write the question text or prompt
Setup your answer key for auto-grading
Delete the question
Move the question
Change the # of points for the question
Select standards to tag to a question
Change the question type
Copy the question
Example of adding content: Embed
Add an embed code and provide students with access to an external learning tool (e.g., Vocaroo, EdPuzzle, Desmos graphing calculator)
Transform Any PDF/DOC
- Select “Enhance a PDF/Doc”
- Click to upload a PDF/Doc/image
Example of transforming a PDF/doc/image
Click to add a question anywhere on the doc
It’ll appear to the right so you can add question details.
Preview a formative
Click on “Preview” to see the formative from a student’s perspective. You can respond and your sample responses will show up on the “View Responses” page!
Assign a formative
Click on “Assign” to give a formative to guests or classes you’ve created. If you assign to guests, you can give them the quick code to enter!
View And Act on Responses
Click on “Live Results” to view live responses! You can always come back later!
Hide names
Filter responses by class
Navigate to responses for each question
Click on response to score and give instant written feedback
See student growth
From your dashboard, click on “Tracker”!
Overall Averages for all your students
Click on a student’s average for a standard and view their history of responses
Toggle between overall scores and progress on standards
Individual student averages
Filter by class
Create a class
If your students are in class(es) you’ve created, you have more options to control what they can do with a formative, you can reset their passwords, and they can access formatives from their dashboards!
Create classes or import them from Google Classroom or Clever!
Get students to create accounts or create accounts for them so students can join the class
Reset passwords instantly!
Access our library with thousands of free formatives!
Access resources
You can click on any of the “Getting Started” GIFs, our “Help Center”, “Community” Resources”, or you can always “Start a conversation with us” if you can’t find what you are looking for!
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Get Your Certificate of Completion!
*We cannot guarantee that a certificate of completion will be accepted as PD credit. If you and/or your admin have any questions, please email hello@goformative.com
To get your certificate of completion for participating in this Formative session, please visit the link below and complete the form. We will send it to you via email and you’ll be able to submit it to an admin for PD credit!
bit.ly/Formativecredit
