What's New

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.

Planned change: A new Domain setting that allows the removal of various gating restrictions for observers. For example, the setting can be used to allow an observer to view an activity that is blocked from the observed students because they haven't completed a previous activity.

Reason for this change: This allows an observer to provide better support to their student.

Change: Instead of displaying a points range in Buzz's rubric headers, Buzz now displays the exact point value that will be granted if the level is selected.

Reason for this change: To make the rubric easier to use, more intuitive, and consistent with other grading tools.

Change: A new option will be added to the Assessment activity editor > Advanced assessment options allowing students to use SpeechStream during the assessment.

Teachers and other content authors can enable this option for an assessment wherever SpeechStream is enabled for the domain.

Reason for this change: To further enhance Buzz's accessibility and general usability.

Change: We are enhancing the security of Buzz's default Google Drive file picker. After this update, users who have already granted access allowing Buzz to embed files may be asked to grant this access again.

This change impacts: All Buzz users in domains with Google Drive integration.

Reason for this change: Improve security for users.