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If enabled by your school, Buzz lets you create notes (2,000 max) and attach them to courses, folders, and activities. After creating notes, you can return and review and edit them at any time.
These notes are intended for personal use and only you can access them.
User notes are not accessible from assessment activities by default, but can be enabled in the Assessment activity editor > Settings > Advanced assessment options.
How many User Notes can a user create?
For each user, Buzz allows the creation of up to 2,000 notes across all courses and activities.
Of those 2,000 notes:
- They can create up to 10 course-level notes per course (meaning notes that are attached to a course as a whole).
- They can create up to 10 folder- and activity-level notes per folder/activity (meaning notes that are attached to each individual folder or activity).
So, if a user were enrolled in a course with 2 folders and 4 activities, they could end up using up to 70 of their 2,000 notes:
- 10 course-level notes
- 20 folder-level notes (10 for each of the 2 folders)
- 40 activity-level notes (10 for each of the 4 activities)
Create notes
To create a note:
- Open the Course Home:
- To create a course-level note (attached to the entire course), click the Notes icon in the Course Home toolbar.
- To create a folder- or activity-level note, select the desired folder or activity and click the Notes icon next to Help in the toolbar (shown).
- Click the plus (+) sign.
- Enter the note as plain text in the window that appears and Save.
- Note: Use hashtags with terms to group them in your note. For example, you could use #Ecosystems to easily find all notes related to those activities.
The note is saved and attached to the specific activity, folder, or course it was created in and you can return to review it. In this example, it's attached to an activity called Interview an ecologist.
You can click Go to all notes from any activity to review or edit any note you've created.
By default all notes from active courses are listed in your Notes tool, but you can click View past courses to see notes from inactive courses if your school allows it.
Review, edit, and delete notes
To review notes:
- Open the Main menu and click Notes.
- In the left panel, select which notes you want to list in the right panel.
- Click All to list every note you've created.
- Click a course title to list all notes attached to that course.
- Click a hashtagged term to list all notes you tagged with that term.
- By default only notes from active courses are listed, but you can click View past courses to see notes from inactive courses.
- Note: This option can be disabled by your school.
- Use the Search field to search all notes.
- Click a note to Edit or Delete it.
- Click the link under a note to visit the course, activity, or folder the note is attached to.
Additional articles
Teachers: How do I add User Notes to courses, folders, and activities?
Admins can enable and disable User Notes on the Features screen.