What's New

We announce significant upcoming features and changes in a standalone Coming soon article that appears at the top of the What's new section.  

Check out what’s coming soon to Buzz!

Authors can now format Matching questions as graphic drag and drop interactions where you give students an image with targets, and a list of draggable answer options that they can drag and drop on those targets.

1. Set an image as the backdrop for your answer targets on the left.
2. Place and size the targets anywhere on the image.
3. Create a list of answer options (text and/or media) that are displayed on the right under Choices.
4. Learners can drag the answer options to the content they match on the image.

Learn more: How do I create a Matching graphic drag and drop question?

We have made the following fixes to Standards-based grading courses:

• Resolved an issue with saving Proficiency threshold in Standards-based > Grading settings.
• Resolved an issue with saving Proficiency descriptions in Standards-based grading > Course settings, when the Proficiency level description is empty before making edits.
• Updated the Standards-based gradebook grid to hide activities that teachers have hidden from students.
• Fixed an error where Buzz stopped responding after navigating to the Gradebook > Trends tab when the course has no student enrollments.

In this release, we:

• Made general accessibility improvements. 
• Added length validators to the Create Domain screen's Name and Userspace fields.
• Updated the Activity Editor > Gradebook and Submissions card to show the Grading scale (points) field when a Rubric with Entry type: Score is chosen. 
• When you edit the rubric for an activity, the Grading Scale (points) field updates to reflect the rubric's max-points number. 
• Added the ability to bulk update the Grading scale (points) field in the editor's Bulk edit screen. 

• Fixed an issue in the Wiki-page editor where attempting to clear a page’s contents and save would give an error message.
• Fixed an issue where Course cards for Continuous courses with Grading periods (in a domain configured to use School Years and Grading Periods) did not display the rolled-up course score on the student Home page. Buzz now always displays the rolled-up course score in these cases. 
• Resolved an issue where answer choice would disappear when reviewing Matching drag-and-drop questions with the Remove used choices from list option selected.
• We have made the following fixes to our Standards-based grading gradebook:
  • Resolved an issue with saving Proficiency threshold in Standards-based grading > Grading settings.
  • Resolved an issue with saving edits to Course settings > Proficiency descriptions when the Proficiency level description is empty before making the edits.
  • Updated the Standards-based gradebook grid to hide activities that teachers have hidden from students.
  • Fixed an error where Buzz stopped responding for users who navigated to the Gradebook > Trends tab in a course with no student enrollments.

Updates in version 2021.12.16.87.

Additions, Removal, or Changes:

• None.

Fixes:

• None.

Teachers:

• How do I create a Matching graphic drag and drop question? (new)
• How do I set up Matching questions? (updated)
• How do I make changes to multiple activities at once (Bulk Edit)? (updated)