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!

Buzz's new Grade passback feature has finished beta testing with select participants, and we are now releasing it for everyone!

This feature allows you to sync grades with your SIS, saving teachers time and keeping grades current for students.

Learn more:

• Admins: How do I set up Grade passback for my SIS sync (with OneRoster)?
• Teachers: How do I sync grades to my SIS (with OneRoster)?

You can now create and manage Feedback templates in the Needs grading screen from the toolbar. This allows teachers to create Feedback templates before any activities have been submitted for grading.

Simply click the Feedback templates icon in the toolbar.

Learn more:

• How do I use the Needs grading tool?
• How do I create and use feedback templates with replacement variables?

Teachers can now select Allow retry as part of the Auto-fill scores option in Batch update scores. This saves time when updating scores for multiple students at once!

Learn more: How do I Batch update scores in the Activity grader?

In this release, we also:

• Added a domain Feature switch to disable/enable student access to past courses (this is enabled by default).
• Added width controls for draggable answer choices in Matching: inline drag and drop questions.

In this release, we also:

• Fixed an issue in Domain settings where making a change in a subdomain would sometimes also save the parent domain menuentry settings, even though the subdomain had not edited the menuentry.
• Updated the hide/show button’s hover tooltip in the Change password dialog to correctly indicate what happens when you click the hide/show button.
• Improved the Badge editor by disabling the Done button until the entry form is error-free
• Fixed an issue in Domain settings where clicking on badges or landing-content entries defined by an parent domain did nothing; it now reports a message indicating why the field is not editable.
• Resolved an issue with correctly scrolling the current activity into view in Editor > Group settings. 
• Resolve an issue with viewing folder activities in Editor > Group settings when filtered by a Grading period that was not the current Grading period. 
• Fixed a typo in the Minimum-allowed password strength validation error message. 
• Updated the Activities > Objectives descriptions to display full description of the objective on the card, instead of using truncated versions and hover tooltips

Updates in version 2022.9.15.841.

Additions, Removal, or Changes:

• None

Fixes

• None

Teachers:

• How do I sync grades to my SIS (with OneRoster)? (new)
• How do I Batch update scores in the Activity grader? (new)
• How do I set up Matching questions? (updated)
• How do I use the Needs grading tool? (updated)
• How do I create and use feedback templates with replacement variables? (updated)
• How do I use the Performance/Gradebook tool? (updated)
• How do I use the Activity Grader? (updated)
• How do I use the Grade Editor? (updated)

 Admins:

• How do I set up Grade passback for my SIS sync (with OneRoster)? (new)
• How do I enable/disable Features in my domain? (updated)