 Hey hey from CESAW! Did you know you can create formative assessments in CESAW to quickly gauge student understanding? Formative assessments are a powerful tool used to monitor student progress and understanding and enable responsive instruction and differentiation to support all learners. To create a formative assessment in CESAW, first tap the green Add button, then select Create Activity or Assessment. Next tap Assessment, a new blank canvas will open in the formative assessment question creator will appear. There are a few different question types you can create. You can create multiple choice, true, false, and pull type questions. Then you can choose the response type, either classic, which is a classic assessment style, or drag and drop. You can choose either of these response types for all three question types. Lastly, you can choose the feedback mode. In practice mode, students can check their work and receive hints in real time, helping them validate that they are on the right track and provide guidance while working independently. The immediate feedback provided to students in practice mode supports learning during centers and stations, or choose assessment mode where students do not see immediate feedback. Instead, students and family members can review results once the student work has been approved by the teacher. To create a drag and drop assessment, type in your question and tap on Upload to upload images from your computer. Since this question is in pull type, there's no right answer to select, like I would need to for multiple choice or true or false questions. When finished, just tap the green check to add this question to the CESAW canvas. We recommend adding audio to the question and answers to support all students and being successful. To do so, tap on the three dots on the text or image and tap voice to record yourself reading the question or answer. Then just tap record voice and add up to five minutes of voice audio to any question or image on the canvas. Tap the green check when you're done. Now students will be able to hear their teacher's voice while completing the question, which is especially helpful for our emergent and multilingual learners. Teachers can also preview the question as a student by tapping on preview as student at the top of the canvas. The green banner will appear when you are in student mode. From here, you can engage with the assessment with all of CESAW's multimodal tools just as a student would. Click on exit student preview to go back to teacher mode. CESAW also has a question assistant where you can search for questions on a wide variety of educational topics. Teachers can search for any skill or topic being covered in class. For example, I search for addition and five addition questions appear that are aligned to my CESAW class grade level. When you find the question you want to use, you can either add it to the current CESAW activity page or select to add it to a new page or you can tap the edit button on the question and edit the question, the answers, question type and response type. When you're ready to add the question to the CESAW canvas, tap on the green check and here it is. Since this is in practice mode, students can choose their answer and then click check work to receive immediate feedback. Practice mode formative assessments are perfect for centers, stations and independent work time. To take this formative assessment to the next level and help you fully gauge student understanding, have students explain their thinking. To do so, tap the check mark on the left side of the canvas, then tap on frames. Frames support students in sharing their thinking by adding a shortcut to the tool you want them to use. You can pick which frame to add to the canvas for students to use to complete their work. We have the option to take a photo, video, record student voice, record student screen, text label and the option to upload an image or file as well as a student choice frame where students have the choice in how they want to show their thinking. Now after students complete the formative assessment question, they will tap into the frame to share how they solved the problem. This makes student thinking and learning visible. And don't worry, all formative assessments in CESAW provide the teacher with both whole class and individual student data. Questions are auto graded and data reports are automatically generated. These detailed reports equip teachers with student response data that enables responsive instruction and differentiation. Formative assessments in CESAW save teachers time while providing deeper insights into student learning. Formative assessments in CESAW give teachers an authentic view into student understanding. Students complete traditional assessment types while leveraging the creative tools in CESAW that allow for student voice and understanding to be captured. Happy CESAWing!