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Buzz's rich text editor is similar to text editors you find in Microsoft Word, Google Docs, and other word processors. It appears in various places throughout the app, but teachers will use it most when creating activities, and students will use it most when completing certain activities.
Here's a breakdown of what you can do with Buzz's rich text editor (from top, left-to-right):
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Top row
- Bold, italicize, strikethrough, and underline text.
- Apply subscript and superscript formatting.
- Choose a font.
- Choose a font size.
- Choose a font color.
- Choose font highlight color.
- Choose a paragraph format.
- Choose line height.
- Choose text alignment (e.g., left, center, right, or justified).
- Use the image editor to change alignment on images.
- Create a bulleted or numbered list.
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Bottom row
- Insert emoji
- Add URL links or, where allowed, add course activity and course resource links.
- Draw
- Insert an image by uploading a file, pointing to a URL, or taking a picture (where available).
- Embed a YouTube video.
- Embed coded content (code view).
- Insert an equation.
- Create a table.
- Increase and reduce your text's indentation.
- Insert vertical quotation bars.
- Insert horizontal lines.
- Select all.
- Clear formatting
- Undo and redo the last step.
- Open code view.
- Use full screen mode.
Course activity links and course resource links
In some places, Buzz allows teachers to insert links to course activities and resources using the rich text editor.
To do so, click the Insert link button in the rich text editor to open the insert link dropdown menu.
- Click the book icon to insert a Course activity link.
- Click the paperclip icon to insert a Course resource link.
Course activity links and Course resource links can be inserted in:
Course activity links are supported in Publish Anywhere for non-gradable activities only.
Course activity link
Inserting a Course activity link provide students a way to navigate directly to an activity in the course. When you select Link to course activity from the Insert link dropdown, a dialog appears:
- Use the Choose course activity field to select the activity.
- The Text field shows the text that is used for the link. It is automatically populated with the activity title, but can be edited.
- Check the Open with quick return box if you want the back button to return students to the screen they opened the link from.
- Insert link.
Course resource link
Inserting a Course resource link allows student to open or download a course resource directly. When you select Link to course resource from the Insert link dropdown, use the field to choose an existing course resource or upload a new course resource.
Image editor
Once you insert an image, you can click on it to make the following edits (top-to-bottom, left-to-right):
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Top row
- Replace the image with another file or URL.
- Choose the alignment.
- Remove the image.
- Add a link to the image.
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Bottom row
- Define the display layout (Inline puts the image on the same line as text, and Break text inserts a linebreak before and after the image).
- Add alt text describing the image for accessibility.
- Adjust the image size.
- Open the Draw tool to draw on the image.
Insert image in Assessments/Practice Questions
When you choose insert image within an Assessment question, you are able to:
- Give it a Title.
- Provide Alternate text describing the image for accessibility.
- Specify your desired static Width in pixels for the image.
- Choose how to Align the image.
- Choose whether to Display the image Inline or to Break text around it.
Once the image is inserted, you can click it to edit these settings again.
Draw tool
The Draw tool has four areas:
- Tools (left side): Choose Select, Draw, Shape, Icon, Text, Rotate or Crop. Draw is selected when it opens.
- Top bar: Undo, Redo and Delete are always here, followed by the options for the tool you've chosen.
- Canvas (center): Your drawing or image.
- Arrange bar (bottom): Buttons to select, move, resize and rotate objects without dragging, plus the Keyboard shortcuts button.
Learn more: How do I use the Draw tool?
