During the summer of 2017, we released a new Buzz UI, giving you the same features and functionality with a cleaner, simpler user experience!
Until all users have switched to the new UI, our Help Center articles will include information for both.
Click the header below that aligns with the Buzz UI version you are using (Old UI or New UI); if you don't know which version you are using, review the differences and/or contact your system admin or Agilix account manager.
Old UI
Add questions
Adding questions to assessments and practice questions activities is easy.
- Open the Editor from the Main Menu.
- Add an assessment or practice questions activity to the desired folder, or select an existing assessment or practice questions activity and click the pencil (edit) icon to add questions to it.
- Select the Questions tab and click:
- New question to create a question. See the Create new questions section below for more information.
- Link question to add existing questions or question banks. From here, you can choose a question or question bank from the current course, or click the list (browse) icon to find questions or question banks from another course you have access to.
Create new questions
Buzz's question editor let's you:
- Choose from between eight question types using the question dropdown menu. Review each question type, below.
- Apply basic bold, italic, and/or underline styles to text.
- Insert images.
- Create and insert equations.
- Choose to edit questions using the default Visual editor or a purely Text editor.
- Preview questions.
- Edit all of the questions using the Text editor.
- Delete and reorder questions using the question list.
Question types
New UI
Add questions
Adding questions to assessments and practice questions activities is easy.
- Open the Editor from the Main Menu.
- Add an assessment or practice questions activity to the desired folder, or select an existing assessment or practice questions activity and click the pencil (edit) icon to add questions to it.
- Select the Questions tab.
- Click:
- The Add question (plus sign) icon to create a new question. See the Create and edit questions section below for more information.
- The Link question (link) icon to add existing questions or question banks. From here, you can choose a question or question bank from the current course, or click the list (browse) icon to find questions or question banks from another course you have access to.
Create and edit questions
Buzz's question editor let's you:
- Choose from between eight question types using the question dropdown menu. Review each question type, below.
- Select editable fields to open and use the rich text editor.
- Choose to edit questions using a purely Text editor.
- Preview questions.
- Reorder questions.
- Edit all of the questions using the Text editor.
- Delete questions.
Comments (6)
I would love the ability to allow students the opportunity to give a video or audio response to a homework question or assessment question. In particular, I can think of the value that this would add to World Language classes for speaking practice/assessment. Is this something that your development team would consider adding to the homework and assessment responses? Thanks!
+1 to Gideon's suggestion, our teacher's are asking for this as well!
Previously, we had access to composite questions where we could put a listening track in and have 2-3 questions grouped together that went with that audio file. Is it possible to do that with the new editor? If so, how is that possible?
Thanks!
Jeremy,
The passage question type will be item type you would want to use in the new Buzz editor for this type of question set.
How do I set up passages for assessments and practice questions (formerly homework)?
In the old Buzz version, I could double-click a photo when I uploaded a photo to questions in an assessment and Edit Media to add text. Now when I do, no text shows up. I can see the text when I turn on the text editor, but it disappears when previewing...
Hello Jhusser!
Unfortunately this function is not available in the new Buzz UI at this time. One can still insert an image into the Content field of the activity, but not within the questions page.