Teacher

With Activity settings, you can specify:

1. The grading Period you want the activity to be a part of. Separate grading Periods allow you to divide grades by date range without building additional courses in Buzz.
   • Note: This appears only if you've enabled Periods in your course.
2. A Due date and set the Due date and time (not available for continuous courses).
   • 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?
3. Whether to Allow late submissions, and what the Late rule and Grace period rules are (not available for continuous courses).
4. The survey service Provider.
5. The Base URL for the survey service.
6. Whether you want participants to be Anonymous or to use one of the following User Identifiers:
   • Display name
   • Username
   • User ID
   • User reference
7. Click Edit survey where available.
8. Additional parameters (similar to the User Identifier). Click Add parameter, provide a Parameter name, and choose one of the following attribues from the dropdown:
9. Activity title
   • Activity ID
   • Course ID
   • Course reference
   • Course title

If you choose to make the activity Gradable, you can specify:

1. The activity's numeric Weight in category; this number defines how much impact this activity's grade has on the final grade, relative to the other gradable activities in the same category. (Weight in category is not available in courses using Multi-Outcome Scoring.)
2. The desired Score entry type (Points, Rubric, Percent (%), or Letter grade):
   • If you choose Rubric, click Add rubric to define it (not available for all assessments).
   • If you choose Letter grade, a field appears where you can select the desired Grade scale.
3. The Grading category you want the activity to be a part of. Grading Categories allow you to apply different grade settings to groups of activities within the same course.
4. The grading Period you want the activity to be a part of. Separate grading Periods allow you to divide grades by date range without building additional courses in Buzz.
   • Note: This appears only if you've enabled Periods in your course.
5. Whether you want the activity to be considered Extra credit.

In Multi-Outcome Scoring courses, Gradebook and submission allows you to align activities with Scoring objectives and requires you to use Points as the Score entry. Assign the desired number of Pts possible for each objective that you want aligned.

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 gradebook options, like:

1. Whether you want to Hide submitted scores from students until the score release date, and, if so, providing the Score release date and time (not available for Continuous courses).
   • 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?
2. Defining the minimum Passing score (%).
3. Whether:
   • The assessment's Score can be dropped from calculated course score (unavailable if the activity is marked as Extra Credit in Gradebook and submission).
   • To Include this activity's score in the final grade calculation.
   • To Require a passing score for course credit.
   • To Treat as zero in gradebook until this activity is scored (unavailable if the activity is marked as Extra Credit in Gradebook and submission).  

Manage Advanced activity options, like:

1. Completion requirements. You can set the activity to Mark as completed when the student:
   • Views this activity for a specified time
   • Submits this activity
   • Receives any score
   • Receives a passing score
2. If the Student must complete this activity before continuing to the next one.
3. Changing the activity's folder Location using the dropdown.
4. Giving the activity a new Activity ID in the field.