The Home Page serves as your dashboard and allows quick access to your most recent items and classes, as well as quick navigation to other pages on your account or even to external web pages!
You can customize the order of the sections of the Home page to your liking. Click on the "Settings" icon, drag the sections titles to re-order them and click to save your new layout!
The recent activities section will include the formatives or lessons that were most recently updated.
Clicking the tile will take you directly into the formative.
If the formative is nested within a folder, the title of the folder will appear on the tile as well, and clicking on it will take you into the folder's view.
Clicking "See All" on the far right will re-direct you to the Activities page where you will be able to see the full list of formatives, lessons, practice sets and folders you have saved to your account.
Clicking the 3-dot menu on any given formative tile, will display when the formative was last updated, and allow teachers quick access to the Responses tab of the formative and to the Share modal. It will also allow teachers quick access to assign the formative to classes or to delete it.
Here also, the classes that were most recently interacted with will appear as tiles.
Each tile will offer the following information:
Class title and thumbnail (including a co-teaching icon and/or a roster-sync icon where applicable)
The amount of students in the class
The amount of co-teachers in the class
The class' grade level(s)
The class' subject(s)
Links to the most recent formatives assigned to the class
Data about the formatives presented
Clicking "See All" on the far right will re-direct you to your Classes page where you could see the full list of active classes and the student details in each of them.
The formatives presented on the Classes tiles will present the following information:
Title of the formative
Open / Close status of the formative
Amount of submissions
Final average grade (if grading has not been completed, N/A will display instead)
Clicking on the formative's mini-tile will take you directly into the formative's "Responses" tab.
Quick Links give you the ability to quickly access your most important sites or Formative pages with a single click from within your Home page. You can have up to 8 Quick Links on your Home page at a time.
You can add either external sites, such as your Google Classroom or another instructional site you are using, or pages within Formative itself, for example a report you'd like to follow up on frequently.
You can also add Quick Links to specific activities or folders in your account, for example a common assessment you'd like to have quick access to, a folder containing your most used formatives.
Note: If you add a quick link to the tracker or progress reports, the quick link will even save your filters as you've set them at that time so you don't need to re-set them when accessing via the Quick Link!
If you have not added any quick links yet, you will see the view presented below.
Simply click the blue "Add Quick Links" button to get started.
Once you've added your first Quick Links, you can add more by clicking on the Add+ button at the far-right of the Quick Links section.
To add a Quick Link to an external site:
Navigate to the external site and location within it you'd like to set as a Quick Link and copy the full URL from the browser's URL bar
Navigate to the Home page in Formative
Click on the Add button in the Quick Links section
Choose the tab "Custom Link"
Enter a name of your choice to identify the link in the top field
Enter/Paste the URL (link) you've copied from the external site in the bottom field
Click the button "Add" to confirm
If you change your mind about adding the link prior to clicking the Add button, you can click "Cancel" or "Reset" to abort the action of adding the Quick Link.
Once the Quick Link has been added you can click the 3 dots menu on it to either edit the information or delete it from your Home page.
To add a Quick Link to a formative or a folder
Click on the Add button in the Quick Links section
Choose the tab "Formative or Folder"
Start typing in the title of the formative or folder and locate it in the dropdown list that will appear
Click on the title of the formative or folder of your choice and it will be added as a tile inside the window
If you've accidentally chosen the wrong formative or folder you can click the X on the tile to remove it and make a different selection, or you can begin to type the title again and choose another formative or folder to replace the tile with
When you are ready, click "Add" to confirm
If you change your mind about adding the link prior to clicking the Add button, you can click "Cancel" or "Reset" to abort the action of adding the Quick Link.
Once the Quick Link has been added you can click the 3 dots menu on it to either edit the information or delete it from your Home page.
Edit a Quick Link
If you need to edit the Quick Link you previously saved, or switch it out, click on the triple dots within the Quick Link tile and select either "Delete" or "Edit Link" at your preference.
The Create + button at the top right corner of the Home Page provides the option to create new formatives, lessons and practice sets, or add a new class. Simply click on this button and you will be presented with the different options in a dropdown menu.
Dropdown options are as follows:
+Formative
Clicking the + Formative option will re-direct you to the standard Editor view of a new formative. From there, you can proceed to build the formative to your liking.
Lesson
Clicking the Lesson option will re-direct you to the Editor view of a new formative, with the Presentation View (Slides-bar) toggled ON. With the Presentation View enabled, you will have access to our Lesson Blocks (Beta) feature to get you started with building a lesson within Formative.
Practice Set
Clicking the Practice Set option will re-direct you to the Practice Sets editor page, where you could proceed to create a new Student Practice Set.
Common Assessment (Gold Plan only)
Available only to members of a school/district Gold plan, clicking the Common Assessment option will re-direct you to the standard editor view of a new formative, however in this case the formative will automatically be tagged as a Common Assessment (Common Assessment toggle turned ON). You will be able to adjust the Common Assessments settings, but will not have an option to un-tag the formative from being a Common Assessment.
Upload Your Content
Clicking this option will re-direct you to the standard editor view of a new formative while simultaneously prompting you to upload your own content file (PDF, Image, etc.) into the formative - ready to be enhanced with questions and activities. If you select to upload a PDF, you will also have the option to parse the PDF.
Auto-Generate Formative
Clicking the Auto-Generate Formative option will open our AI generator window. Enter your desired topic, grade level, and additional desired settings into the generator and let it do the work! You will be notified once the generator has completed processing your request, or you can view the formative as it is being generated.
Import with Google
Clicking the Import with Google option will allow you to import documents, PDFs and slide decks directly from your Google Drive. These will be uploaded into a new formative, ready to be enhanced with questions.
Create with Youtube or Upload
Clicking this option will re-direct you to search and select Youtube videos, import Vimeo or Google Drive videos with a share link, or upload a video file into a new formative. Once the video has been added it can be enhanced with timestamps and questions.
Create New Class
Clicking Create New Class will open the class creation window. Enter your new class' title and adjust the class avatar background color and initials, add the grade level, subject, and associated org and click "Create Class" to confirm. You will be re-directed to the new class' page where you can proceed to add students.
If you're looking to sync your class with Google Classroom, Microsoft Teams, or Clever please head over to the Classes tab instead.
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