Buzz allows students to evaluate their understanding, interest, and effort in a course and communicate the results easily to a teacher.
To see a student’s Self Assessment:
- Select the course you want by clicking its Course Card on the Home page.
- Click the Heart button in the toolbar.
- Review the student’s current color-coded assessments:
-
Understanding
- Red = Lost
- Yellow = OK
- Green = Competent
- Blue = Expert
-
Interest
- Red = Bored
- Yellow = OK
- Green = Interested
- Blue = Very Interested
-
Effort
- Red = Slacking
- Yellow = OK
- Green = Trying
- Blue = 100%
-
Understanding
Honest student self-assessments can create opportunities for you to collaborate with a student to identify needs and help improve their experience and progress.
Tips
- You’ll notice that you can access the Heart button from the toolbar whenever you have a specific course selected.
- The Heart button is multi-colored to indicate the most recent self-assessment.