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Weekly release notes for all of the products in our Agilix Learning Suite (Buzz and Dawn).
Coming soon: Support for responsible AI use and academic integrity
Buzz Release Notes
A round-up of all improvements and changes to the Buzz platform, version 2026.1112.222205, available on November 12, 2026.
Coming soon: Support for responsible AI use and academic integrity
We're building tools that help teachers set clear expectations for AI, give students room to learn to use it well, and understand how student work was written. Look for these add-ons in an upcoming release:
- Expected AI use: Set the AI use you expect for each activity, from no AI, to BusyBee tools only, to other uses. Students see the expectation on the activity, so there's no guessing about what's allowed.
- Expanded Get Help assistance levels: Allow your students to learn how to use more AI within Buzz, where teachers are in the loop. You decide how much help BusyBee Get Help gives on each activity, from guiding questions only, to help with ideas, planning and feedback, to suggested revisions and small drafts built from the student's own ideas.
- Submission Insights: Get more information about how students wrote their work in Buzz, right where you grade it, so you can review submissions and talk with students with the full picture.
Content that reads well in light and dark color schemes
To make authoring smarter in both the light and dark color schemes, we:
- Updated pasting in the rich text editor so content copied from Word, Google Docs or a web page no longer brings in its black, white or gray colors. Colors you chose on purpose, like red text or a yellow highlight, are kept.
- Updated the Text color and Highlight color pickers so every color offered is easy to read. If you enter a custom color that's hard to read, you'll see a warning.
- Updated the color pickers so they show a color only when one is applied. Text with no color no longer looks like it has a color applied in the Dark color scheme.
- Updated the rich text editor to stay light in the Dark color scheme for content that's always shown on white, including:
- Activity template text fields
- Assessment templates
- Print header and footer in Domain settings.
- Added a color scheme preview switch to rich text editors for content authors, so they can see how content looks when viewed with the color scheme not being used. Included in:
- Content and Instructions editors in activity editors
- Questions previews and Preview all questions screen in Assessment editors.
- Resource Library page editor
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BusyBee updates
In this release, we also made the following BusyBee updates:
- Improved how BusyBee Grading Assistant reads paragraphs in student work.
- Updated the BusyBee Grading Assistant to better read completed Google Docs and Slides templates.
Buzz updates
In this release, we:
- Made general security enhancements.
- Updated the Grade editor to show the group's Members when you grade one member of a group activity.
- Updated the layout of the headers in the Grade editor and Grade details screens to improve readability.
- Updated profile pictures so removing your picture or choosing a built-in avatar updates the header right away, without refreshing the page.
Buzz fixes
In this release, we also:
- Fixed an issue where, on narrow screens, the Grade editor had no button to show the score panel when grading a group or when the student's picture was hidden, so the grade couldn't be entered.
- Fixed an issue where Save in Domain settings was disabled on domains using the old SAML sign-in type, so changes couldn't be saved.
- Fixed an issue introduced on 11/12 where the Gradebook produced a grid warning message instead of loading in courses with no active students.
Buzz APIs
Updates in version 2026.11.12.3875.
Additions, Removals, or Changes:
- Updated the Buzz API documentation and API console with a new developer portal: a refreshed design with light and dark modes, full-text search, simpler page links, and Try it links on command examples that fill in the console. Old links still work.
- New Data Stream events: ‘AuthPasswordResetRequested’, sent for each password reset request with its outcome, and ‘AuthLoginRateLimited’, sent when sign-in or password reset attempts are refused by rate limits.
Fixes:
- None
New and updated articles
- Authoring accessible content in Buzz: Color contrast in light and dark color schemes (updated) - Full update.
Dawn Release Notes
A round-up of all improvements and changes to the Dawn platform in this release: version 2026.1111.185020, available on November 12, 2026.
Dawn updates
In this release, we:
- Fixed an issue where links in notification emails opened a "Page not found" page.
- Fixed an issue where help links, course materials and links from videos opened in a small popup window instead of a new browser tab.
- Fixed an issue where adding an organization showed a "Failed to update organization" error even though it was saved.
- Improved general security.