A round-up of all improvements and changes to the Buzz platform in versions 2.0.124 and 3.0.21, available on October 12, 2017.
Updates
In this release, we added a privacy policy link to the User Menu.
Fixed issues
In this release, we:
- Fixed an issue where companion materials attached to assessments and practice question activities were not being included when those items were linked.
- Fixed an issue that caused layout issues with the Accommodations flag column header in the Activity Grader.
- Updated the student Home and Performance (All) screens to refresh automatically upon navigating to them.
- Fixed decimal point rounding for scores in Course Settings > Grade Scales.
New Buzz UI
During the summer of 2017, we released a new Buzz UI, giving you the same features and functionality with a cleaner, simpler user experience!
The release notes in this section pertain only to those using the new Buzz UI.
New Buzz UI updates
In this release, we:
- Updated labeling of Gradebook settings card in Activity editors to Gradebook and submission to better represent the included settings.
- We added a privacy policy link to the User Menu.
New Buzz UI fixed issues
In this release, we:
- Fixed an issue where companion materials attached to assessments and practice question activities were not being included when those items were linked.
- Fixed an issue that caused layout issues with the Accommodations flag column header in the Activity Grader.
- Updated the student Home and Performance (All) screens to refresh automatically upon navigating to them.
- Fixed decimal point rounding for scores in Course Settings > Grade Scales.
- Improved handling of special characters in filenames.
- Improved the way the Activity History tracks proxy users.
- Added a warning message informing users when they're trying to edit an activity ID for an activity that is already in use.
- Fixed an issue where tasks were being included as attachable activity links.
- Fixed an issue that would keep the question editor from loading if Advanced Activity Settings were disabled.
- Fixed an issue that would cause keep the back arrow from appearing when previewing an activity while filtering by group.
- Improved email format validation for users creating accounts.
- Updated time entries to allow a preliminary zero where appropriate.
- Removed the Impact font from the rich text editor because Chromebooks won't display it.
- Improved the way we handle invalid domain flags.
Comments (4)
In the Grade Editor, it seems that the "Activity" link now goes back to the actual assignment. Is that correct, and if so, was that recently changed?
Thanks.
Actually, it does not link... please disregard.
Buzz is timing out very quickly now. It seems that I need to sign-in a lot more frequently.
Also, it doesn't tell me that I have timed out and that I need to sign back in, it either gives me an error or just doesn't open what I click on, so I refresh the page and it takes me to the login screen - very frustrating.
In addition, previously, if Buzz timed out while I was editing something, it would allow me to sign back in while still in the edit mode and I wouldn't lose data. Now I have to totally refresh and everything is lost.
Hello Serena,
Buzz doesn't have a timeout option enabled by default, the logout would happen if your Domain Admin has a timeout configured in the domain settings or if there are connectivity issues on your local network. Please coordinate with your authorized support contact to troubleshoot this behavior.