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Weekly release notes for all of the products in our Agilix Learning Suite (Buzz + Publish Anywhere and Dawn).
Improved responsiveness and instructional quality in BusyBee
Buzz Release Notes
A round-up of all improvements and changes to the Buzz platform, version 3.0.492 available on December 18, 2025.
Improved responsiveness and instructional quality in BusyBee
BusyBee has received a meaningful foundational upgrade, delivering faster responses and improved accuracy across a wide range of subjects. Educators and students will notice quicker interactions, clearer explanations, stronger mathematical reasoning, and better instructional alignment throughout the experience.
Faster, more natural interactions - BusyBee responds more quickly and with a more natural instructional voice, reducing wait time and making conversations feel smoother and more engaging for students.
Stronger prompt fidelity - BusyBee now follows prompts more precisely, producing more consistent and predictable responses aligned to the intent of the activity.
Improved math and step-by-step guidance - BusyBee shows stronger performance on multi-step tasks, providing clearer intermediate steps and more reliable mathematical reasoning to support student understanding.
Stronger contextual understanding - BusyBee demonstrates improved awareness of course content, resulting in responses that are more accurate, better aligned, and grounded in the material students are working with.
More responsible, instructional support - BusyBee continues to avoid giving answers outright. With this upgrade, it offers improved scaffolding, asking better guiding questions, encouraging critical thinking, and supporting students as they work toward their own solutions.
Initial reactions from BusyBee users highlight instructional improvements
"Noticeably more instructional and context-aware, with smarter questioning, stronger synthesis of course content, and seamless support for activities."
"It has a more natural voice and the facts are more on the spot."
"Responses feel more intentionalโboth in how questions are asked and how understanding is checked."

Buzz updates
In this release, we:
- Improved workflow for configuring mult-factor authentication.
- Updated Buzz's multi-factor authentication to support autofill by user-configured password managers.
- Improved security for opening images and downloadable attachments in Buzz.
- Added a disclosure statement to BusyBee Chats and Get Help to improve transparency and encourage responsible use.
Buzz fixes
In this release, we also:
- Resolved an issue with defining choices for newly-created Ordering questions in the Assessment editor.
- Fixed an issue where the Multi-factor Authentication > Remember this device setting wasn't being applied in Buzz instances that use custom domains.
Buzz APIs
Updates in version 2025.12.18.3261.
Additions, Removal, or Changes:
- None
Fixes:
- Fixed an issue where using
CreateUser2with certain alphanumeric metadata values would result in an invalid data request error.
New and updated articles
- Teachers:
- Administrators:
Dawn Release Notes
A round-up of all improvements and changes to the Dawn platform version 2025.1217.171543, available on December 18, 2025.
Dawn updates
In this release, we made the following updates to Dawn's new UI (released for preview use 12/5):
- Improved navigation and refresh behavior in older versions of Firefox.
- Resolved a layout issue with dashboard course cards when course titles are longer than expected.
- Fixed an issue with the Table of Contents link in the activity player navigating incorrectly.
- Updated the main and content background color to white when using light mode.
- Updated Dawn to automatically repair certain editing corruptions when content is loaded.
- Improved stability when switching back to the v1 UI, reducing unexpected behavior.
- Updated catalog entry status labels to use Published and Unpublished states for clarity.