Here’s a list of things I’d love to see developed in Formative. Feel free to add your own or let me know if any of these have been instituted!
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undo accidental deletion of student’s individual response or assignment for all types of teacher accounts
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be able to re-number the “1”, “2”, “3”, etc. blue numbers on the PDF upload version with “1a”, “1b”, etc. if you want to in order to match the numbering on the PDF
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be able to set different timing and scheduling options for multiple students in the same class section at the same time (currently, if one student was taking a quiz on Monday and another student on Tuesday, I’d have to schedule the Monday student’s quiz, then go back in after that student submits to change the scheduling options to open the quiz up for the Tuesday student - quite frustrating)
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see the complete messaging history (rather than just the new notifications, which disappear from the bell icon at the top of the screen once read) - for both students and instructors
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have the option to turn on a student-student messaging feature so students can message each other about a question (if the teacher turns on the feature - and also allow the teacher to see any and all messages)
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have multiple students work collaboratively on the same file, split up into groups
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always let students see the status of an assignment very clearly from their dashboard with (a) the exact day & times it opens on and is due by, (b) the number of questions and total point value of each assignment, © the number of questions answered relative to unanswered, (d) whether the assignment is unavailabile, available + unsubmitted, available + submitted, unavailable + submitted, incomplete, etc., and (e) whether the grading has been finalized or not (add in a feature for a teacher to mark an assignment as “returned” so the students know it’s complete and all feedback is finalized - you can currently set scores to not return until you finish grading (then change the setting to return scores), but this isn’t ideal for teachers who want students to see the results of auto-grading asap but will need to do partial credit and/or some manual grading to complete the overall assignment grading).
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enable the ability to students to choose to receive email notifications whenever as assignment status changes (ex: new assignment posted, due date coming up, instructor message sent, etc.) and for instructors to receive an email whenever a student message is received
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have the option to make some questions extra credit (so that the grade students see on their dashboard is actually the grade they have - currently, if I write an assignment worth 30 points with 5 extra credit points, Formative calculates their grade out of 35 points)
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have the option to add in an assignment penalty or bonus (ex: late penalty for whole assignment, late penalty for just the specific questions which are submitted late (automatically determined by website, not deducting any late penalty for the questions which were submitted on time or questions which the student still doesn’t answer after the extension is granted), bonus for classroom participation)
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give the teacher the option to have students see the raw score they earned, not the percentage (or see both or see just percentage - depending on how the teacher calculates final course grades)
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have the option to mark the grade for some assignments as “Pass” or “Satisfactory”, etc., instead of a number
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give students the same text formatting options when typing responses that the instructor has when writing questions (ex: students told me they didn’t have the ability to do things like superscript and subscript when typing short answer responses, but I would like for them to be able to do that)
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mark Formatives according to categories (ex: “Warm-Up Questions”, “Homework”, “Quizzes”) and have it so that they can both (a) see those category labels on their dashboards (along with things like due dates, grades etc. aka the stuff mentioned in request # 7 above) and (b) manipulate their dashboard so that they can see the Formatives in category folders like the instructors can
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in line with request # 14 above, make it so that, if the student goes to their category folder, they can see the point value sum for that category and/or enable an overall gradebook feature for any instructors who want to use Formative as their location for all assignments
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add the ability to turn on/off a chime to accompany all new messages
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during assignment creation, be able to change the PDF uploaded WITHOUT deleting all the questions typed up on the right-hand side of the screen (super important if the instructor realizes there is a slight mistake in the PDF)