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Restoring items with the API -- any hidden gotchas?

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Buzz API
Matthew Marichiba
October 13, 2016 16:35

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Are there are any hidden gotchas around restoring users, domains, courses, or enrollments, such as deleted data or broken relationships? ...

Assessments Don't Require Answers Anymore

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Buzz: Product Feedback
Kelly Calderone
October 13, 2016 13:48

Feature idea (LEVEL 1)

Hello, In the old Brain Honey, when creating assessment questions, Brain Honey would prevent me from adding a new question unless I pro...

Buzz Blog and Choice Assignment

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Buzz: Questions & Answers
Ken Sajdak
October 13, 2016 01:26

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OK . . . Have a choice activity -- select 1 --- submit a paper, or do a blog post and response. Problem . . . when the Blog is chosen, th...

Bulk edit to allow for multiple documents?

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Buzz: Questions & Answers
Shane Foglesong
October 11, 2016 19:25

Feature idea (LEVEL 2)

Is there a way to bulk edit so that all assignments allow for multiple documents?

Assignment submission not allowed after due date assigned zero.

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Buzz: Product Feedback
Ryan Josephson
October 10, 2016 18:11

Implemented feature idea or fixed bug

I just read the release notes for this week and found that if an assignment now has been scored it will no longer allow the student to re...

Assessment variables

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Buzz: Questions & Answers
Jeremy Walker
October 07, 2016 15:45

Feature idea (LEVEL 1)

Is it possible to use fractions as variables? We were trying to use variables to build equations where students had to identify the slope...

Pen Tool

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Carla Diede
October 06, 2016 19:54

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It would be nice in the text boxes if there was an option for a pen tool where students could draw or write over top of a PDF, image, ect...

Observers not seeing the name of the student in the grade book

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Varshini G
October 03, 2016 22:02

Implemented feature idea or fixed bug

I have an observer/parent role set up for a user to observe 6 student roles. But when looking at a gradebook for a single observed user, ...

Discussion Board - Approve Student Posts

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Buzz: Questions & Answers
Kelly Calderone
September 30, 2016 14:26

Feature idea (LEVEL 1)

Is there a way teachers can vet posts before they go live to the class? I'd like to be able to approve posts before other students see th...

Zero after Due Date (Red or Black?)

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Buzz: Questions & Answers
Kevin McBride
September 28, 2016 14:36

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In the course options,. I have "Automatically assign zero scores to past-due activities." I really like that the score will automatically...

Batch update empty scores

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Buzz: Questions & Answers
Flew Flewelling
September 28, 2016 14:27

Implemented feature idea or fixed bug

We have our course set to automatically zero after the due date. Occasionally we change the due date in class, but forget to change it i...

Feature request - selective user/server grading

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Bruce Sharp
September 28, 2016 14:09

Feature idea (LEVEL 1)

I would like to see a setting added to fill in the blank questions that I can check to have the question flagged if the student answers i...

inability to sort in Analytics

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Buzz: Questions & Answers
Patrick Yaggy
September 26, 2016 21:31

Implemented feature idea or fixed bug

About two weeks ago, I lost the ability to sort in the Analytics on an Assessment. I used to be able to order questions by Difficulty or...

Table Issues

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Ryan Josephson
September 23, 2016 19:39

Implemented feature idea or fixed bug

When deleting a table in the expanded view in the editor, the ability to minimize so that changes may be saved is disabled. The user mus...

CTRL + K to link

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Kevin McBride
September 23, 2016 19:33

Implemented feature idea or fixed bug

A small request. Could support for CTRL + K to insert a link to text be added to the editor?

More Options for Bulk Edit

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Kevin McBride
September 23, 2016 16:51

Feature idea (LEVEL 1)

I love the Bulk Edit feature in the Editor's Activity List. However, it does leave me longing for more options to edit in Bulk. Some of t...

Remove course from Buzz library

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Buzz: Questions & Answers
Byron Heath
September 23, 2016 14:34

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Is there a way to make a course completely unsearchable in the Buzz library? I’m working with teachers who have bought a specific number ...

Gradebook Question:

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Marci Alstatt
September 22, 2016 17:54

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Will the "F" always show up like this in the gradebook if the posttest was taken and their score was below the 80% mastery level or do I...

Security of assessments over split periods

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Jeremy Walker
September 20, 2016 21:23

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Amy Berchem shared how she deals with administering assessments over a split period (their lunch occurs in the middle of class): I am giv...

assessment review settings

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Joshua Graegin
September 20, 2016 19:18

Feature idea (LEVEL 1)

We would love to see a feature that gives us an option when creating an assessment that would allow students to view what they missed on ...

Removing videos from Edit window

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Buzz: Questions & Answers
Susan Valentine
September 20, 2016 18:54

Implemented feature idea or fixed bug

I'm having difficulty removing videos once I add them to a rich-text activity page. I'm also having difficulty adding spaces or typing be...

Alternate Assignments/Modifications

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Buzz: Tips & Tricks
Anna Westaby
September 19, 2016 15:45

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Let me start by saying that I already know how to create and assign activities in clipboard. I am trying to do a little more than that. I...

blackout dates

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Ryan Josephson
September 16, 2016 18:10

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I was curious if it was possible to allow blackout dates to also work for standard course types (non-continuus). Teachers often schedule ...

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Carla Diede
September 16, 2016 02:58

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The biggest complaint/frustration we get from students is the number of times they have to login. When going to resources outside of Buz...

Student Activity Stream

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Byron Heath
September 15, 2016 19:38

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Is there a way to change what information is updated in the student activity stream? For instance, if a teacher wanted to keep preassessm...

Save to My Resources

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Buzz: Questions & Answers
Elizabeth (Liz) Steele
September 15, 2016 18:02

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Can I be in a course, add something to the course, and then from the course, select the item and Save to My Resources?

Please return the "add table" tool to the question editor in assessments!

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Bruce Sharp
September 15, 2016 16:54

Implemented feature idea or fixed bug

This was addressed earlier but buried in a post about a different topic. (Where did the assessment - advanced editor go in the newest Buz...

Floating formatting tools

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Jeremy Walker
September 15, 2016 15:35

Implemented feature idea or fixed bug

We understand that we can break out the content editor into full screen mode, but it would still be more efficient for most users if we c...

Assessment content text editor

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Jeremy Walker
September 15, 2016 15:31

Implemented feature idea or fixed bug

When using the text editor in the Content box in an Assessment, we've noticed that you can only change one feature of the text formatting...

Activity Grader Feedback

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Jeremy Walker
September 15, 2016 13:10

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We activated the activity grader as an experimental feature last spring and asked our teachers for feedback. They really liked that they...