A round-up of all improvements and changes to the Buzz platform in versions v3.0.174 available on May 21, 2020.
Continuity of Learning program
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Improved student experience with past-due activities
We have made the following improvements to how Past-due activities are managed in Buzz to improve the student experience (learn more):
- For students:
- The To-do list now displays activities with due dates in several additional scenarios, including:
- Activities that have been allowed a retry and the due date or grace period has not expired.
- Activities that have been automatically assigned a zero for being past due, but the student can still complete the activity because the grace period has not expired.
- All gradable activities are now displayed in the student’s To-do list (previously, only specific activity types were displayed).
- The To-do list now displays activities with due dates in several additional scenarios, including:
- For teachers:
- The course setting When auto-generating due dates, provide less time for activities that require only viewing was previously only applied to non-gradable Assignment, Custom Activity, Rich-text, or Website link activity types. We now apply it to all non-gradable activities.
- Teachers can now clear a student’s automatically-assigned zero regardless of the due date (previously, if a course was configured to Automatically assign zero scores to past-due activities, the teacher could not clear the student’s zero unless they also changed the student’s due date so that it was no longer in the past).
Updates
In this release, we:
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[New Activity Player] Improved Activity player > Peer help display to initially show three peers who have completed an activity, and a Show more button to see others.
- Added a hint to the recipients field for Send mail and Clipboard messages that:
- A personal email message will be sent to each recipient. An individual recipient cannot see which other recipients received this message.
- Replaced the Delete button with a garbage can icon in the User notes tool.
- Added a hint to the recipients field for Send mail and Clipboard messages that:
Fixes
- Improved question summary layout for Practice questions activity.
- Improved styling of Activity changes toolbar to accommodate courses with long names by wrapping them.
- Improved Domain settings > Menu override dialog layout by showing icon picker above the menu icon field.
- Added range validation to Weights field in Objective mapping to ensure the entered number is between 0-1.
- Improved the rollover display of selected students in the Clipboard to make it easier to view the course name for the student enrollment.
- Fixed an issue where long course titles would overlap with student names when choosing students/domains/courses on Reports screens.
APIs
Updates in version 2020.05.20.4530.
- General system improvements.