Formative

Formative supports truly reflective, student-centered formative assessment regardless of whether students are in school or at home. Use Formative to facilitate a flipped classroom model with videos, reading assignments, and written responses, or ask students to submit a video response to reflect about what they learned in class. View students' progress as they complete graphic organizers, work out math problems, annotate an image, or work through a science lab. Talk with students digitally, giving them the chance to try, fail, try again, and improve learning outcomes. In class, use the teacher-paced mode to guide engaging, interactive lessons that enable students to demonstrate their knowledge in a variety of ways, whether it's writing, drawing, video, objective questions, or other response types. Since you can control feedback options, there are opportunities for immediate feedback or for asking students to revisit and retry tasks in order to achieve mastery of learning objectives. During or after a lesson, use the data you gather to inform future instruction, eliminating the guesswork and surprises that often accompany standard classroom lessons and traditional assessments. Set up custom rubrics and use them to grade responses and provide consistent, accurate feedback to students. 

Teachers will want to consider that without the ability to involve caregivers through the platform, those who teach younger students may want to avoid asking them to do too much at home. Options for group collaboration would add to Formative's engagement factor at all levels, but even without those, opportunities abound for teachers to connect with and guide students.