A round-up of all improvements and changes to the Buzz platform in version v2.0.162, available on July 19, 2018.
Updates: Buzz integrates with the SpeechStream text-to-speech tool
In this release, we enabled integration with the SpeechStream text-to-speech toolbar, from Texthelp, to improve accessibility. You set up your account with Texthelp, and Buzz makes it easy to integrate it.
With SpeechStream enabled, the Activities toolbar displays a Text to speech button for Assignments and Rich-text activity types.

Pressing the button (which looks like an ear) hides and shows the SpeechStream toolbar that reads the assignment text aloud using the play button.

Learn more
- Admins: How do I enable the SpeechStream toolbar?
- Students and other users: How do I use SpeechStream's text-to-speech tool?
Fixed issues
In this release, we:
- Fixed the text of an error message in the Question Editor.
- Fixed an issue that prevented you from setting the points per question field to 0 in the Question Editor.
- Fixed a filename display issue when displaying companion materials during an assessment.
- Fixed an issue where the selected period in the Clipboard did not appear in the Gradebook Settings.
- Fixed an issue where the Grades > For Me screen would show Grades for All Periods at times when a specific period was selected for display.
- Fixed an issue where the Grades screen would not import files with a tab character in the title.
- Fixed an issue where metadata fields that should have appeared when opening an activity from the For Me > Gradebook settings screen weren't appearing.
- Fixed an issue where a student would not be allowed to select a choice activity if they had already selected and removed that specific choice activity.
- Updated sorting function in the School Year and Past courses columns of the Student > Grades screen to adhere to ascending and descending listing selections.
APIs
Updates in version 2018.07.18.3188. Learn more.
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GetDomainSettings
: Fixed an issue that could prevent the settings from honoringremove-item=true
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Custom Questions: Fixed an issue where the
isteacher
boolean was not in the response.
New articles
- Admins: How do I enable the SpeechStream toolbar?
- Students and other users: How do I use SpeechStream's text-to-speech tool?