Formative
Acquired: by Newsela
Real time formative assessment platform with Luna AI to generate activities and suggest rubric based grades.
Best for Live tracked assessments and standards mastery
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What it does
Formative is an instructional and assessment platform designed for K twelve educators, schools, and districts. Teachers create interactive lessons or assessments, students respond on their devices, and educators receive real time responses to guide immediate feedback and track learning progress.
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Luna AI assistant
Generates standards aligned bell ringers, exit tickets, and quizzes from uploaded PDFs, documents, or written prompts.
Use caseA classroom teacher builds quick exit tickets from existing documents to check student understanding.
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Grading and rubrics
Scores assignments automatically using customizable keys and rubrics while letting teachers evaluate and return feedback.
Use caseA math teacher evaluates assessments without spending hours manually creating data reports and grading submissions.
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Standards aligned item bank
Supplies thousands of vetted, pre made assessment questions aligned to educational standards for test creation.
Use caseA school administrator builds common assessments by pulling vetted questions across multiple grade levels.
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Roster synchronization and integrations
Connects with school learning management systems to import rosters, enable single sign on, and sync assignments.
Use caseA district IT specialist links classroom accounts to Google Classroom or Clever to streamline student access.
From formative.com
Written from Formative's own website, checked . Each feature links to the page it comes from; images are Formative's own.
Every plan
| Plan | Monthly | Billed yearly | Per | What it includes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free | Free | $0 | per teacher | limits not published |
| Classroom | Not listed | $20.75 | per teacher | <100 students, Luna AI, unlimited lessons/assessments, advanced grading ($249/yr) |
| Small School | Not listed | $260.42 | per school | up to 250 students, org dashboards, common assessments ($3,125/yr) |
| Balanced Assessment | Not listed | Not listed | per district | contact sales; item bank, LockDown Browser, Luna guardrails, roster sync |
From Formative's own pricing page, checked . Prices are in US dollars per month; "billed yearly" is the monthly price when you pay for a year up front. A few figures (often the yearly price) are derived rather than printed on the page.
Before you pay
- Data retention
- Districts have full control over data access, retention, and deletion.
What Formative says
Student information is never sold, and districts have full control over data access, retention, and deletion.
Source page - Support
- Help center, email, onboarding support, dedicated success manager
Only what Formative's own pages state, with the quote behind each answer. Anything they don't publish is left out rather than guessed.
What the free plan includes
Free sign up exists; limits not published (premium settings like randomization/
Questions people ask about Formative
Is Formative free?
Yes, there is a free plan: Free sign up exists; limits not published (premium settings like randomization/time limits paid).
What is Formative and how does it work?
Formative is an AI powered instructional and assessment platform allowing educators to build interactive lessons, conduct real time assessments, track progress, provide immediate feedback, and align with standards. Source
Does Formative work with LMS or SIS systems like Google Classroom or Clever?
Yes, it integrates with Google Classroom, Clever, ClassLink, and other major LMS/SIS platforms for automatic rostering, SSO, and assignment syncing. Source
Is there a free version of Formative?
Yes, Formative provides a free plan covering features like assignment creation, basic question types, and student responses. Source
Works with
- Integrations
- Google Classroom, Clever, ClassLink, Google Slides, Google Forms, Respondus LockDown Browser
- Languages
- Over 50 languages
Where this came from
Plans, prices and limits were copied from Formative's own pages and the other sources listed, then checked .
- formative.com/pricing
- formative.com/plans
- help.formative.com/en/articles/15850577-formative-updates-june-2026
- formative.com/
- formative.com/plans
- help.formative.com/en/articles/6827953-what-formative-plan-is-best-...
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