Formative, founded in 2014, lets a teacher see student responses to an assignment in real time as students work through it, rather than only after collecting and reviewing completed work, spotting a misunderstanding spreading across a class while there's still time to address it during the same lesson.
That real-time visibility spans any assignment type, beyond video content alone the way Edpuzzle, also covered in this directory, specifically handles, quizzes, open-response questions, and drawing or diagram responses all feed back to the teacher's live dashboard as students complete them.
A free tier covers standard use, and paid plans start around $12 a month for more features and analytics. For a teacher who wants to catch and address misunderstandings during a lesson rather than discovering them only after grading completed work later, Formative's real-time visibility across any assignment type addresses that specific timing gap directly.
Formative starts at $12, which is 14% above the Education median of $10.5 a month across the 78 priced tools we list in that category.
The cheapest paid option in Education starts at $2.99 and the most expensive at $129.
65% of Education tools in the directory offer a free tier, and this is one of them.
Compared against every priced listing in Education, recalculated as the catalogue changes. Method and the full market breakdown are in our AI tool pricing study.
AI LMS turns documents, videos, and websites into a full online course with automated grading and an AI tutor chatbot.
AI quiz generator for teachers that turns notes, a web page, a PDF or a YouTube video into draft questions to review, shares the quiz with a class by access code, and suggests marks and next-lesson ideas.
Maths tutor that reads handwritten working and guides students with questions, not answers.
Give it a topic, a video, a link or a YouTube channel and GPT-4 builds a full interactive course – quizzes, assignments, and an AI mentor grading your answers.
