A round-up of all improvements and changes to the Buzz platform in versions v3.0.257 available on November 11, 2021.
Coming soon to Buzz!
We announce significant upcoming features and changes in a standalone Coming soon article that appears at the top of the What's new section.
New interactive Assessment question options!
Buzz has introduced new interactive options for Matching, Ordering, and Multiple answer question types!
Matching questions
Check out the new interactive options for Matching questions!
Matching questions: inline drag and drop
You can place answer targets within sentences, and create a list of draggable answers (text and/or media) to accompany them. Students can drag the answers to the targets they think match.
Matching questions: drag and drop
You can format the Matching questions to automatically list answer targets on the left and draggable answer options (text and/or media) on the right. Buzz allows you to include additional distractors if you want (notice that the watermelon and mango images don't have a text match). Students can drag the answers to the targets they think match.
Ordering questions
New Drag and drop options for Ordering questions!
Ordering questions: vertical drag and drop
You can list the options (text and/or media) that need to be put in order vertically under the question. Students can drag and drop the options into the desired place.
Ordering questions: horizontal drag and drop
You can list the options (text and/or media) that need to be put in order horizontally under the question. Students can drag and drop the options into the desired place.
Multiple Answer questions
New clickable options for Multiple Answer questions!
Multiple answer questions with clickable inline answers
You can place answers (text and/or media) within sentences. They appear within clickable dotted-line boxes, and students can select all that they think are correct.
Multiple answer questions with clickable answers
You can list the answers (text and/or media) horizontally after the question within the same clickable dotted-line boxes as above. Students can select all that they think are correct.
Updates
In this release, we also improved the insert placeholder function for all Assessment questions with inline behavior.
Fixes
In this release, we:
- Fixed an issue in the Activity player where time-based completion activities did not immediately complete or display the complete check mark after the required time had passed.
- Added a missing validation to the Add objective popup in the Editor.
- [Standards-based Grading courses only] Fixed an issue where viewing the Gradebook >Trends tab and then attempting to edit the course standards resulted in an error message.
APIs
Updates in version 2021.11.11.6641.
Additions, Removal, or Changes:
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InteractionFlags:- Added a new flag,
DragAndDrop, to enable drag and drop behavior for matching or ordering question types. - Added a new flag,
Horizontal, to display choices horizontally for ordering question types. - Added a new flag,
RemoveUsedChoices, to remove used choices from the list for a matching, drag and drop question type.
- Added a new flag,
Fixes:
- None.