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How do I use the Domain tool?

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Create, configure, and customize your domain.

Domain tool tabs

From the Domain tool tabs bar, you can:

  1. Review and edit the Domain Details and settings.
  2. Create, delete, and search Subdomains.
  3. Create, delete, and search Roles.
  4. Grant, revoke, import, and edit user Permissions.
  5. Add, remove, search, and edit user or domain Subscribers.
  6. Add, remove, search, and manage your domain's Subscriptions to other domains or courses.
  7. Create, delete, search, and edit domain Announcements.
  8. Upload, delete, search, and manage domain Resources.
  9. Review the Features Buzz offers your domain and enable/disable features to give your users the ideal experience.

Domain Details

You can review and edit basic information about your domain on the Details tab, including:

  1. Domain Name, Userspace (not editable), Domain ID (not editable), and External ID. Save the any edits you've made.
  1. The Active enrollment summary card uses a pie chart to show how many students are failing, at risk, and succeeding, and the correlating percentages. You can also download enrollment and student information.
  2. The Domain teacher summary lists all teachers in the domain. You can click each name to review their Teacher Dashboard information (which appears in your Admin > Users tool).
    • Needs grading columns: Surface the total number of ungraded items for a teacher as well as any that have been waiting for longer periods of time. The color signal on the Needs grading: total count represents overall responsiveness across the teacher's courses, helping administrators quickly understand whether grading backlogs are isolated or indicate a broader concern.
      • Green: Most submissions are being graded within 2 days.
      • Yellow: Submissions are trending toward longer grading times (3-5 days).
      • Red: A significant portion of submissions have been waiting 5+ days.
    • Student performance: Assesses overall student achievement based on scores and recent submissions in each course.
      • Green: Students, in aggregate, are performing more than 10% above the course's minimum passing grade.
      • Yellow: Students, in aggregate, have failed 1 of their last 5 submissions or are within 10% of the minimum passing grade.
      • Red: Students, in aggregate, have failed 2 of their last 5 submissions or are below the minimum passing grade.
    • Student Pace: Evaluates how closely students are staying on schedule with submissions in each course.
      • Green: Students, in aggregate, are submitting work on time, with fewer than 10% of gradable items past due.
      • Yellow: Students, in aggregate, have 10-30% of gradable items past due.
      • Red: Students, in aggregate, have 30% or more of gradable items past due.

Tips for using the Active enrollment summary and the Domain teacher summary

  • These summaries list an enrollment as Active for 14 days after the enrollment's end date, giving teachers time to finalize and return grades.
  • These summaries are updated on a daily basis, so they do not reflect changes in real time.
  • If a submission has remained ungraded for over 1 year, it is no longer included in the Needs grading numbers listed.
  • The status threshold defaults used in these summaries are set by Buzz and can be modified by system admins: How do I set up Teacher Dashboard data?

Use the More menu in the Domain toolbar to:  

  • Open and edit Domain settings.
  • Use Applied domain settings to see the current domain's full Domain settings in read-only XML format, and compare them with another domain's settings to see differences.
  • Use Domain setting usage to select a specific setting defined in the current domain's Domain settings and run a search to see if that setting exists in its subdomains.
  • Enable, configure, and/or manage SIS sync.
  • Enable, configure, and/or manage any Data streams.
  • Import enrollments and Import observers as tab-delimited or comma-separated values (.csv) files.
  • Move the domain.
  • Set activity password to create a password that grants a user access to all password protected activities for the enrollments in the domain. This password works in addition to an activity's individual password; it doesn't replace it. Domain-wide passwords are not inherited by subdomains.

Accessibility notes

Four inline help items appear within the Settings toolbar button that are not currently supported by screen readers:

  • In the Landing Content card: Buzz shows the content provided here to users of the selected applications after login. Learn more.
  • In the Learning Standards card: Provide a comma-separated list of national, state, and district standard sets for course importing. Available sets include CCSS, NGSS, and state standards as two letter codes. Learn more.
  • In the Authentication card next to the Allow users to create their own accounts option: You must provide a code (token) to end-users so that they can create their own accounts. Learn more.
  • In the Authentication card next to the Set password policy option: Complete these fields to define your password policy. The duration fields require ISO designators, such as P60D for 60 days or PT15M for 15 minutes. Learn more.
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