We have many items in our courses that we would like to change settings for. Is there a way to bulk edit settings such as students marking them as complete or grades to pass fail? It's very tedious to change each one individually in the 500 courses we offer.
Great question! Buzz allows course authors to bulk edit various activity settings to quickly make changes to multiple activities at once. However, not all activity settings are available for bulk editing. Currently, you can bulk edit the passing score but cannot bulk edit the activity setting to have the student manually mark the activity as complete. I recommend checking out our "How do I make changes to multiple activities at once (Bulk Edit)?" Help Center article for steps on how to use the Bulk Edit tool and more details on what settings are currently available for bulk editing.
Could you provide additional information on why your organization needs to edit so many activities? Are these new courses you receive from a publisher every year? Would creating a template course and then creating copies of that template be a viable solution?
Your insights will assist our team in making informed decisions regarding future updates to Buzz. I'll make sure that an enhancement request gets documented for our team to consider adding the "Mark as complete" activity setting to the Bulk Edit tool. However, there is no ETA on if or when this may be implemented.
Yes. Our school receives new courses from two different publishers each year and needs to update these settings each time. As a school with over 500 courses offered at 4 different locations, any bulk edits are very helpful to us. Thank you!
Of course! Thank you for that additional info! Would you be able to compile a list of what specific activity settings your school needs to modify each year and what you set them to? It will be valuable to know what settings frequently need to be changed from what publishers provide.
Here is a list of all items we end up editing one at a time:
Unlimited attempts on quizzes/tests
Unlimited time (no time limit) on quizzes/tests
Items marked as complete once student "marks as complete"
Bulk hiding teacher-scored versions of tests
Grading settings (letter, p/f, percent, etc...)
Number of points for a given assignment
Adding numbering to the beginning of assignments, ex: 1.2.4 Journal (although this can't be bulk edited, but is time consuming since it doesn't copy over)
Thank you for looking into these for us! Any amount that can be added to bulk edit will save our team many hours of human effort.
We would also love to see the treat unscored items as zero option added to the bulk edit options, both to turn it on and to turn it off.
That would be a helpful tool. For example, when we decide to make a new base course off of a current teaching copy, often that setting has been turned on in assignments. Currently one must go into every assignment, click on settings, scroll to the bottom and turn that setting off. If we could bulk edit all gradable assignments (thank you for finally adding that feature!!) to turn that off all at once, what a game changer that would be!
It would also be incredibly helpful for teachers who turn that setting on for a unit at a time as they are preparing for an exam.
Thanks for passing along this exciting enhancement request.
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Hi Julianne,
Great question! Buzz allows course authors to bulk edit various activity settings to quickly make changes to multiple activities at once. However, not all activity settings are available for bulk editing. Currently, you can bulk edit the passing score but cannot bulk edit the activity setting to have the student manually mark the activity as complete. I recommend checking out our "How do I make changes to multiple activities at once (Bulk Edit)?" Help Center article for steps on how to use the Bulk Edit tool and more details on what settings are currently available for bulk editing.
Thanks, I did know about the current bulk edit options. Is the "mark as complete" bulk edit something it may be possible to add?
Could you provide additional information on why your organization needs to edit so many activities? Are these new courses you receive from a publisher every year? Would creating a template course and then creating copies of that template be a viable solution?
Your insights will assist our team in making informed decisions regarding future updates to Buzz. I'll make sure that an enhancement request gets documented for our team to consider adding the "Mark as complete" activity setting to the Bulk Edit tool. However, there is no ETA on if or when this may be implemented.
Yes. Our school receives new courses from two different publishers each year and needs to update these settings each time. As a school with over 500 courses offered at 4 different locations, any bulk edits are very helpful to us. Thank you!
Of course! Thank you for that additional info! Would you be able to compile a list of what specific activity settings your school needs to modify each year and what you set them to? It will be valuable to know what settings frequently need to be changed from what publishers provide.
Yes, I can do that. Let me look into it and I'll share that list.
Here is a list of all items we end up editing one at a time:
Thank you for looking into these for us! Any amount that can be added to bulk edit will save our team many hours of human effort.
Thank you, Julianne, we appreciate your input. I want to clarify that our team will consider adding these activity settings to the Bulk Edit tool:
In addition to the following activity settings currently available for bulk editing:
If you have any questions, please let me know.
Hi Steven,
We would also love to see the treat unscored items as zero option added to the bulk edit options, both to turn it on and to turn it off.
That would be a helpful tool. For example, when we decide to make a new base course off of a current teaching copy, often that setting has been turned on in assignments. Currently one must go into every assignment, click on settings, scroll to the bottom and turn that setting off. If we could bulk edit all gradable assignments (thank you for finally adding that feature!!) to turn that off all at once, what a game changer that would be!
It would also be incredibly helpful for teachers who turn that setting on for a unit at a time as they are preparing for an exam.
Thanks for passing along this exciting enhancement request.