Teacher

If you choose to set a Due date (not available for continuous courses), you can specify:

1. The Due 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 dates for students in different time zones?
2. Whether you want to Allow late submissions, and, if so, what the Late rule and Grace period rules are.
3. The allowed Number of attempts a student can complete for that assessment.
4. The total Questions per page you want your students to see.
5. Whether you want to:
   • Allow save and continue for the assessment. Meaning students can start an assessment, save it, and return to it later. Without activating this option, students must finish and submit an assessment once they've started it.
   • Require answers for submission. Meaning students are only allowed to submit the assessment after answering all of the questions. If not enabled, students are notified that they haven't answered all questions when trying to submit an incomplete assessment, but can still submit.
   • Randomize question order.
   • Randomize response order.

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 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. Auto-graded activities, like assessments and practice questions, can be aligned with only one scoring objective, so you must choose it from a dropdown menu and then assign the desired number of Pts possible for that objective.

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 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. This is different from assessment-specific passwords, which must be entered each time a student attempts the assessment and are managed in the Advanced assessment options card.
   • 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.

Practice question activities allow you assign different requirement and review settings to questions within the same activity (for example, you may want to assign a time limit to essay questions, but leave multiple choice questions without one).

To do so, you:

1. Click Add Question Group.
2. Configure the settings you want.
3. Assign the desired questions to the Question Group you configured.

You can assign questions to a group in the question editor Metadata.

If you don't create groups, all questions are automatically included in the Default group which you can click to review and edit.

Question-group settings include:

• A Question group name.
• A Time limit in minutes.
• Number of attempts allowed.
• The Attempt minimum required.
• The ability to Combine all questions in this group into one problem for the student.
• The Scored attempt you want recorded (Last, First, Highest, or Average).
• When you want the following review settings to be available: Question results, Student answers, Question score, Correct questions, Correct choices, and Feedback. The options for each are:
  • Always
  • Never
  • After minimum attempt
  • When answered correctly
  • After due date
  • After score release date

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.
   • Note: This option is not available for Continuous courses.
   • Note: This option is not available for Continuous courses.
   • 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:
   • 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.