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.

This card allows you to choose when/if students see certain information (detailed below) when reviewing their graded assessments. The available settings for when students see the information are:

• Always
• Never
• After available attempts (this is impacted if you choose Allow retry in the Activity grader)
• After minimum attempt
• When answered correctly
• After due date
• After score visibility date

The feedback display options include the following.

An assessment pool is a collection of questions. You can set up Buzz to randomly draw a certain number of questions from a pool and use them to create an assessment.

Manage Advanced assessment options, like:

1. Setting a Time limit in minutes.
   • Note: Students can be excused from this setting by an administrator as part of their Accommodations.
2. Specifying a Default question score. You can assign each question a specific point value; if you don't, Buzz uses this default value.
3. Specifying an Attempt minimum for the assessment (the minimum number of attempts you want the student to complete).
4. Indicating whether you want to:
   • Allow printing (this option allows teachers to print assessments for students to complete offline).
   • Hide question "Back" button.
   • Start assessment automatically upon selecting it, or if you want to give users a Start button.
   • Enable the following tools for use during assessments:
     • Show highlighter, which allows students to highlight text while taking the assessment.
       • To provide the highlighting tool for an essay question, make sure to put the essay question on its own page.
       • To provide the highlighting tool for a passage question with multiple questions attached to the passage, make sure to display the attached questions on the same page.
     • Show answer eliminator, which allows students to eliminate multiple choice questions that they think are wrong while taking the assessment.
     • Allow student to take question notes, which allows students to record notes about a question and return to them while taking the assessment.
     • Allow student to take permanent, activity notes during the assessment, which allows students to take notes during an assessment that they can return to after completing the activity.
     • Allow students to use SpeechStream during the assessment, which reads the assessment text aloud to the student.  
     • Allow students to bookmark and review questions, which allows students to review questions while taking the assessment and filter by those they have answered, those they haven't, and those for which they've recorded notes.
   • Make it a Formative assessment and, if so, indicate whether you want to Include formative in final grade and show score to students.
   • Make it a Remediation assessment.
5. Providing a Password if you want to require students to enter one every time they start, continue, or retake the assessment. This is normally used in proctored assessments where a teacher or aid can give the password directly to students. This is different from a general activity password that students only have to enter the first time they open the activity.
6. Indicating which Scored attempt you want recorded (Last, First, Highest, or Average).  
7. Uploading or selecting an Assessment template.
8. Using the Adaptive assessment add-on (if enabled).

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:
   • 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.