Best Free Alternatives to Formative in 2026

Google’s classroom hub for assignments, grading, communication, and workflow management inside Workspace for Education.

Interactive presentation platform with live polls, quizzes, surveys, and classroom engagement tools that fit into existing teaching workflows.

Microsoft’s survey, quiz, and poll builder with branching, Excel analysis, and browser-based response collection.

Game-based learning and engagement platform for quizzes, polls, presentations, training, and interactive sessions in education and business.

Art-inspired writing platform for creating stories, picture books, and other creative writing projects with illustrated prompts.

Educational activity generator for quizzes, crosswords, matching games, word tasks, dictation, and other interactive learning formats.

Flipgrid, later renamed Flip, is a retired video discussion platform; Microsoft ended the standalone service on September 30, 2024.

Former education video discussion platform for short student responses; now retired as a standalone product and folded into Microsoft Teams for Education.

Audience interaction platform for live polls, Q&A, quizzes, and word clouds in meetings, webinars, events, and classrooms.

Online book creator for students and teachers to write, narrate, illustrate, and publish digital or printed storybooks.

Study platform for flashcards, practice tests, study guides, note transformation, and AI-assisted learning support across subjects.

Advanced blocks-based programming language from UC Berkeley for teaching real computer science concepts beyond beginner block coding.