Teacher

With Project settings, you can:

1. Select the correct Grading Period for the folder if your domain has them set up.
   • Note: This appears only if you've enabled Periods in your course.
2. Enable Student Choice for this folder and specify:
   • The Number of required choice activities.
   • Whether you want to Allow extra choices.
   • Whether you want to Allow choices from any folder in the course.
   • Whether you want to Allow choices from Digital Library.
3. Specify that the Folder is a project which allows you to provide the Project start and Project end dates.

Click Choose Objective to align the activity with one or more objectives.

With Visibility and access settings, you can choose to:  

1. Make the activity Visible to:
   • Students, teachers and observers: This is the default setting for activities intended for students to complete.
   • Teachers and observers: This setting works well for Lesson Guide materials that observers like parents, mentors, etc. need access to. A map icon appears next to these activities in the Activities pages for teachers and observers.
   • Teachers only: This setting works well for Lesson Guide materials that only teachers need. A map icon appears next to these activities in the teacher Activities page.
2. Check the Hide from student's table of contents and to-do list box. Note that it is still accessible with course links and bookmarks unless otherwise restricted.
3. Check the Block access until student completes other activity box.
   • If it appears, you can check the Require passing score if gradable for mastery (optional).
   • Click Choose Activity, and select the activity or activities that you want to make access dependent on.
4. Check the Block access until student masters objective(s) box, click Choose Objective, and select the objective(s) you want to make access dependent on.
5. Check the Block access until a specified date box and enter the desired date and time.
   • This can also be managed in the Editor > Scheduling screen.
   • Learn more: How does Buzz handle Due dates, Visibility dates, and Score release dates for students in different time zones?
6. Check the Student must enter a password box, and enter the desired Activity password in the field.
   • By default students must enter this password only once, and can access the activity without entering the password thereafter.
   • If you want, you can check the Require password each visit to override the default.
   • Note: Students can be excused from this setting for a specified amount of time by an administrator as part of their Accommodations. Overriding this setting for a student can be useful in a situation where passwords are provided during class, but a student is unable to attend for a period of time.

Click Choose Badge to select one or more badges that you want automatically awarded to students who successfully complete this activity.

Learn more:

• How do I award badges?
• How do I create course badges?

Admins can create custom Metadata fields for activities in their domain. This content is only visible to teachers, course authors, etc. and provides further insight into an activity, such as:

• An activity Description for course authors.
• An idea of how this activity fits into the goal of the course or the Big Picture.
• Essential Questions that should be answered by the activity or that students should keep in mind as they complete it.
• Any relevant Vocabulary.
• Associated Resources.

Some of the fields under Metadata ask for content that, if set up by your system admin, can be used to make an activity searchable in the Digital Library. Contact your system admin to find out if there are fields in your domain that can be used this way.

Manage Advanced activity options, like:

1. Changing the activity's folder Location using the dropdown.
2. Giving the activity a new Activity ID in the field.