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Feature ideas (LEVEL 1)

Treat as Zero added to the Wrench tool in the Gradebook

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Flew Flewelling
November 13, 2019 14:35

Feature idea (LEVEL 1)

A function that would streamline the gradebook would be to add the "treat as zero in gradebook until this activity is scored" to the Wren...

Feature Request - Fractions!

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Bruce Sharp
October 25, 2016 16:42

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One of my top needs in Buzz is the ability for it to handle fractions. Mostly, some sort of function to reduce fractions to simplest form...

Suggestion: Hot Text

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Devin Lewis
October 30, 2019 18:50

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It would be beneficial to have hot text (click on text or drag text) as a question type option in Buzz. Many standardized tests require s...

Enhanced Idle Timeout Features

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Michael Denton
October 28, 2019 20:51

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The state of Arizona has some very regulations on funding online education and ADE auditors can reject all funding for a given student if...

Assessment Feedback in Gradebook

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Noelle Thomas
October 24, 2019 17:35

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The rubrics in the gradebook allow teachers to select the "Leave Feedback" text so teachers can leave feedback on individual parts of a r...

Assessment Vs. Practice Questions

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Noelle Thomas
October 24, 2019 17:18

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Currently the Practice Questions assignment does not have an essay question option, whereas the Assessment assignment does. I would like ...

Special Ed Teacher Role

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Michael Denton
October 22, 2019 16:01

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Could you create a cross between an observer and a teacher to use for Special Ed Teachers? The idea would be to assign a teacher to a stu...

Suggestion

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Brenda Schmitz
October 21, 2019 16:43

Feature idea (LEVEL 1)

It would be helpful for students if the feedback that the teacher provides would show up underneath the question rather than having to sw...

Fonts

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Deanna Guerrero
November 01, 2018 17:29

Feature idea (LEVEL 1)

Can you please include more fonts!

Last submission date

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Melissa Moreno
April 18, 2019 14:32

Feature idea (LEVEL 1)

Would you please add a column to the gradebook that says "Last submission date"? This is more useful than the "Last Login Date". Studen...

"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...

Feature Request - Matching Practice/Homework

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Bruce Sharp
August 26, 2019 17:03

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It would be so much more helpful for my students if matching questions that are built into Practice (homework) activities would show them...

statusofResult=tobemoderated LTI flag no longer works?

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John
August 16, 2019 15:10

Feature idea (LEVEL 1)

Hi, Our platform has integrated via LTI with Buzz (previously BrainHoney) for many years now. We have been using the statusofResult=tobem...

Changing usernames

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Jon McCrea
August 08, 2019 21:35

Feature idea (LEVEL 1)

As a domain administrator, is it possible to change usernames? I see a post on this subject in Feb 2018 that indicated this is possible,...

Mass Assignment Edits

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Jeffrey Kissinger
August 08, 2019 18:33

Feature idea (LEVEL 1)

Is there functionality to do edit the parameters [number os attempts, etc] for all or some assignments within a course?

Copy Course Settings

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Heather Boyd
August 05, 2019 17:41

Feature idea (LEVEL 1)

Is there a way to copy a specific course's settings and apply those settings (i.e. blackout dates) to another course that already exists?...

User Notes Question

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Tammy Meyn-Rogeness
July 10, 2019 20:16

Feature idea (LEVEL 1)

Is a teacher able to add notes to course, activities, or folders and then make the notes visible to groups of students?

grading on phone

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Katie Picket
June 18, 2019 18:24

Feature idea (LEVEL 1)

In Brainhoney I could log in on my phone and access my grading queue. In Buzz I can see the queue and can select the assignments, I can p...

Embedding a video (.mp4 format or .mov format) in a Rich Text activity

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Varshini G
May 28, 2019 20:31

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Hi, Is there a way to embed a .mp4 or a .mov file in a Rich text activity? Currently I am seeing options only for Youtube video embeddin...

Buzz word count using variables

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Amy Schuster
June 02, 2019 03:14

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I just wondered if there is a way to require a minimum number of words or characters using variables or otherwise with essay questions.

email Observer when assignments overdue

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Bruce Sharp
June 04, 2019 16:02

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It would be a HUGE help if there were a setting in the course to have observers automatically receive an email notification when a due da...

Force-submit homework and assessments

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Bruce Sharp
November 04, 2016 14:18

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Can you please add the feature to homework (maybe assessments already do this?) to have an option to force submit homework activities? Ma...

Student Access to Past Course Performance Summary, NOT Content

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Shaun Creighton
May 22, 2019 21:12

Feature idea (LEVEL 1)

We would like to be able to grant students in completed Buzz courses the ability to see their past performance in these courses (e.g., ov...

Printing assessments

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Amy Rountree
May 20, 2019 14:30

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I like the feature where you can print assessments for students. A couple things I wish could happen with it, though. 1. I would to have...

Grading Odds/Evens only

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Roman Kozak
April 30, 2019 19:40

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Is there any way to take a completed quiz or exam and have it grade the odds only? For example, if a 100 point exam has been completed, i...

Downloading Course content

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Kim K
January 09, 2019 19:08

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Assigning Different Badges for Different Outcomes

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Vincent Lewis
April 02, 2019 23:22

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Is there a way to create multiple badges, and then award those badges to students for different types of outcomes within the same activit...

Subscribe to a Discussion

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Syreena Mortimer
March 21, 2019 22:44

Feature idea (LEVEL 1)

Is there a way to subscribe to a discussion board and be alerted when there are new posts? Thanks!

UI: Too much spacing of rubrics in Grading

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Bill Carroll
March 07, 2019 20:55

Feature idea (LEVEL 1)

On a 4k monitor with larger font sizing (so that the words are still visible), the rubric for assignments takes up the entire screen. Pl...

assessment review settings

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Joshua Graegin
September 20, 2016 19:18

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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 ...