How to Build Activities with Luna AI in Formative by Newsela

Learn how to build classroom activities with Luna AI in Formative by Newsela. This hands-on training shows how Luna can support activity creation, practice, differentiation, and instructional next steps inside Formative. You’ll explore how to: Create a Formative and open Luna. Generate free-response, matching, math, and other classroom questions. Review, edit, regenerate, or customize Luna-generated activities. Tag generated questions to selected standards. Add hints and answer-choice explanations to support students. Generate practice sets for vocabulary, skills, and review. Customize practice sets with images, audio, and different practice modes. Add accommodations and assign activities to individual students or groups. Review responses and Insights to identify instructional next steps. Chapters: 00:00 Meet Andy Sullivan 00:56 What you can build with Luna 02:13 What Luna does in Formative 03:03 Create a Formative 05:23 Open Luna 06:02 Generate classroom questions 07:48 Review and edit Luna-generated questions 09:55 Generate math questions 11:10 Tag questions to standards 13:34 Try Luna yourself 15:19 Create practice sets with Luna 16:44 Build multilingual vocabulary practice 18:10 Practice sets for science and math 20:47 Review practice-set activity 21:02 Add hints and answer-choice explanations 22:31 Add student accommodations 24:24 Review responses and Insights 26:43 Turn insights into next steps 28:12 Practice, Q&A, and workflow examples Start with one activity you already need to create, then see how Luna can support your workflow in Formative. #FormativeByNewsela #LunaAI #TeacherTools