Administrator

Buzz gives you:

• More opportunities to easily personalize student learning.
• The data and analysis you need to facilitate effective personalized learning.
• More intuitive navigation.
• Responsive design to provide access across more devices.

Here’s what you can count on:

• No data is lost when upgrading from BrainHoney to Buzz; grades, student submissions, messages, and all teacher-authored content are instantly available on sign-in.
• Buzz comes with continued, dependable support and a new online community where you can find help from Buzz’s developers and other users.
• The ability for districts and schools to customize aspects of Buzz to fit their specific needs.

• New Navigation: Buzz gives teachers immediate access to any tool or course from anywhere. Use the Main Menu to jump between tools and the Course Chooser to jump between courses.
• Clipboard: This tool helps teachers to act on data in the Performance or People tools. Use it to assign additional activities and resources, award badges, and send messages to individuals or groups who need additional help or more engagement.
• Communication: Teachers can post announcements to specific courses or to all courses at once; these announcements appear in the student To-do List. Teachers can also compose and send messages classes, groups, and individuals.
• Calendar: The Calendar tracks and displays all assignments and their due dates, and color-coordinates them by course. Users can choose to view a specific day, week, month, or the entire duration of the course.
• People: This tool provides teachers with at-a-glance access to a variety of student data points in one simple, customizable table. It combines grades, mastery progress, pace through the course, data from student self-assessment responses, and much more.
• Editor: This tool replaces the BrainHoney Syllabus editor. From this tool teachers can manage course items (assessments, assignments, discussion boards, etc.), search the library for new content, add thumbnails to images, align objectives, and more.
• Performance/Gradebook: This tool replaces the Gradebook in BrainHoney. It has been redesigned from the ground up to include many new features and performance improvements.

Some tools haven’t changed, some have simply been renamed, and some have been entirely reworked to enhance the experience for teachers and students. However, teachers still have access to the same intervention data to make sure they can best help every student.

Review the table to see how tool names have changed.