What's New

In March of this year, we released a new optional feature: Dark color scheme under an admin feature switch.

When we release new features that may impact current workflows, we keep the feature switch default setting to disabled, so you can explore them at your own pace before we enable them by default.

On July 14 of this year, we changed the default setting for Dark color schemes from disabled to enabled. Administrators can still choose to disable the feature at that time.

In November of last year, we released a new optional feature: Student due date scheduler under an admin feature switch.

When we release new features that may impact current workflows, we keep the feature switch default setting to disabled, so you can explore them at your own pace before we enable them by default.

On July 14 of this year, we changed the default setting for Student due date scheduler from disabled to enabled. Administrators can still choose to disable the feature at that time.

Change: Updating Buzz's Google Analytics integrations to reduce the use of cookies and adding IP masking. Only customers that integrate with this tool will be impacted.

Google Analytics will begin tracking users differently after this change, so customers may see their usage attributed to a new user going forward.

Reason for this change: To improve user privacy.

Change: Changing the default font used for user-created content from Verdana to Roboto.

Reason for this change: Roboto is already used for all other default fonts in Buzz, so this increases consistency. Certain special characters (pi, for example) are better represented in Roboto. This change will impact user-created content where the font was not changed from the default font. Users can still change their fonts with the rich text editor.  

Change: LTI 1.3 and LTI Advantage are now enabled for Publish Anywhere in beta.

Reason for this change: To take advantage of the updated security in LTI 1.3 and LTI Advantage.

Learn more: Publish Anywhere publisher steps: How to export courses

Change: Buzz will begin blocking messages for unverified emails and phone numbers. After implementation, when a message is sent from Buzz to an unverified account, the user is given one week to verify their information before Buzz begins blocking messages. During this grace period, the banner remains visible, and users receive an automated message from Buzz prompting them to verify their information along with the first message they receive during this time.

This change impacts: All Buzz users who have not verified their email and/or phone numbers.

Reason for this change: Improve security for users.

Change: We enhanced Remediation assessments to automatically grant a student a retry on any gradable activities that are aligned to objectives that the student failed to show mastery of in the Remediation assessment.

As a part of this, we also updated the Activity stream to inform learners of activity retry opportunities and recommendations that are initiated by this change. 

Reason for this change: To better personalize learning and help the student gain proficiency in the learning objective.