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Why Can't I Do Rich Text Formatting on Questions Anymore?

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Kelly Calderone
November 08, 2016 13:40

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Hello, I (and other teachers) have noticed an issue in Buzz. Some of the rich-text formatting options are gone from Buzz in the Assessmen...

Throw out a question

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Gideon Seaman
November 04, 2016 20:12

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Is there a way to throw out a question (other than giving a curve to a class) from a test that they have already submitted (and where the...

"To-Do" List Confusing for Students

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Shannon Dillman
November 04, 2016 18:22

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Can teachers hide the to-do list from the student view in a course? My students see the "to-do" list and only click on that item which m...

Student resource table not found:

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Marci Alstatt
November 03, 2016 17:25

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In the statistics prescriptive course, Chapter 6, Standard Norm Distribution lesson, the video tells them: "You will also learn how to us...

Batch creating observers and aligning them to students

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Brad Marshall (Agilix team member)
November 02, 2016 17:09

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I sometimes get asked how to create many observers and align them to their respective students. This tip will show how you can do this in...

Grading by Groups Submissions

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Sdunbar
November 02, 2016 12:36

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I have used Brainhoney for 2 school years. This is my 3rd year and this year we have switched BUZZ. In Brainhoney, we had to the ability...

Fill in the blank answer space

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Joshua Graegin
October 25, 2016 23:49

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We frequently use fill in the blank style assessment questions on assessments. Often when the students are completing them the blank is n...

Issue with Fractions

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Bruce Sharp
October 24, 2016 16:17

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I was going to build an assessment over slope. I was testing different possible answers and discovered this issue. Here is the code I use...

Copy comments in submitted assignments

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Flew Flewelling
October 24, 2016 15:51

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When a student submits something with a dropbox and comments, the comments section isn’t copiable. There are several instances where thi...

Audio Assessment Questions

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Kelly Calderone
October 23, 2016 23:11

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I noticed that teachers can now leave audio feedback on submitted items. Can Agilix embed that little audio button on assessment question...

Passage names

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Bruce Sharp
October 19, 2016 18:35

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I just created my first question using the passage feature. The drop-down menu for selecting the desired passage was nice. It would be mo...

PDF not rendering

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Stephen Gibson
October 19, 2016 18:01

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Hi, I've attached .pdfs through Editor as a course resource and it's changing the name of the file by replacing "space" with "%20" and re...

Where to specify _token in <batch> commands?

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Matthew Marichiba
October 13, 2016 18:10

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The DLAP API docs for issuing batch commands doesn't seem to state explicitly where to place the _token if I already have an authenticate...

Restoring items with the API -- any hidden gotchas?

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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? ...

Buzz Blog and Choice Assignment

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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...

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...

Zero after Due Date (Red or Black?)

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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...

Remove course from Buzz library

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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...

Alternate Assignments/Modifications

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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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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?

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...

Due Dates

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Laurie Jensen
September 14, 2016 22:07

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One of the posts stated that teachers have the option to set due dates under the editor tool, selecting the assignment, going to gradeboo...

feedback templates

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Ryan Josephson
September 14, 2016 17:46

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I'm having some issues with the feedback templates not working in firefox. I don't know that I have ever gotten them to work, but they d...

Gradebook Score and Grade are missing

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Jennifer Parzych
September 13, 2016 19:18

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I have a user, she has a course: Earth Sci 9 (R) Honors-Prokopienko. She has two assignments already graded in her gradebook. However, he...

Printing tests

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Flew Flewelling
September 13, 2016 14:15

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We have a lot of students that get concussions and need their tests printed out for them. I see that I can do this in the Activity tab. ...