Formative
Students submit responses by answering multiple-choice questions, drawing, or typing, and teachers can send back detailed feedback in real time. The dashboard offers great at-a-glance progress tracking.
Do NOT have students create an account; students can participate without an account. Parent permission is required for ALL students!
Extra Information for Student Users
Formative is committed to children’s privacy.
Different regions require extra precautions for creation of student accounts and handling of student data under certain ages. In the United States, COPPA requires extra restrictions for students under the age of 13. Similarly in many EU countries under GDPR, precautions are required under 13, 14, 15, or 16 years of age, depending on each country’s individual rules. Because of this, we take the same level of care to student accounts regardless of age or location.
Protecting the privacy of young children is especially important to Formative. For that reason, we created certain features designed to help protect Personal Information relating to all students creating accounts on our site ("Student Users"). Formative also seeks parental consent for all "Student Users." If you are a parent or guardian (“Parent”) and discover that your child has a registered account with our Properties without your consent, please alert Formative at privacy@formative.com and request that we delete that child’s personal information from our systems.
In most cases, we will have to reach out to the educator and/or school overseeing the account to confirm identities before we can make changes to a student account at the parent’s direction.
How children may register for and use our Properties.
A child can be registered to use the Properties through his or her school; or through an integration with the Properties that is supported by the child’s school; or by teachers, tutors, and other similar adults that assist in the educational process (“Teachers”) and have taken steps to obtain parental consent. Parents always have the option to delete their Student User’s account by contacting privacy@formative.com.
Children must always sign up as a Student - never as a Teacher - during the account creation process.
If a Student User attempts to register for our Properties, Formative will request an Authorization Code, which must be created and provided by their Teacher. Teachers must not give these codes to or create accounts for children unless they have the authority to give consent for the sharing of that student's personal information (name, email, answers, etc). Again, we will never sell student data. It is up to the Teacher and Student to determine if and how this information is shared.
Alternatively, if you are a Parent, you may provide consent for your child’s registration via email. Parents may revoke a child’s permission to use the Properties by emailing privacy@formative.com to delete the account.
Restrictions on Student Users.
Formative attempts to restrict a Student User’s access to certain features that could result in disclosure of Personal Information by the Student User. A restricted account limits sharing and displaying private information about the Student User in various ways, including:
The profile is not shared publicly, and only the Parent and other permitted Teachers can see the User’s profile
The Student User cannot post to public discussion forums
The Parent can edit Personal Information found in the restricted account by emailing privacy@formative.com
The Parent can remove Student Users from view of any Teachers
Some other features of our Properties may, however, permit a Student User to enter free-form text through which the Student User could enter Personal Information that would be visible to other Users. This may occur, for instance, if a Student User enters Personal Information in answering an exercise problem or creating other projects on our Properties. If you are the Parent of a Student User, please advise your Student User of the risks of posting Personal information on our Properties or any other online services as information posted may be used by others without restriction.
As a Parent, you can choose to share information about your child as you deem appropriate. Formative will not share Personal Information about your child or his/her/their progress with anyone other than you, your child, and any permitted Teachers unless we receive your permission (or as otherwise noted in this Privacy Policy).