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Add Audio and Video to Discussion Boards

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Melissa Moreno
December 14, 2017 16:53

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Could you please add the same audio and video messaging capability (but for all users in this case) that you have added to Teacher Feedba...

Need to Add Feedback Features!

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Nkelsch
November 03, 2022 19:02

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Access to teacher feedback is still clunky and laborious for students. The feedback loop is one of the most critical factors for student ...

Fix the Blogs and Journals, please!

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Melissa Moreno
May 16, 2018 12:45

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I am a math teacher and would love to use blogs and journals in my classes. However, currently they are no better than simple text docum...

Chat with Your Teacher

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RCSD eLearning Team
February 05, 2016 15:24

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We'd like to see an instant message/chat feature within Buzz that can be used between teachers/student! Chat with your teachers - If your...

Requesting a Feature: Restricting File Type Uploads

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Jennifer Reynoso Haymond
February 03, 2023 18:39

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Hello! I am a teacher and teach courses on Buzz. I also teach courses on Canvas. On Canvas there is a feature that allows teachers to res...

Ability to send announcements to specific groups within a course (from Elizabeth Laba et al.)

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Jeremy Walker
November 12, 2015 16:40

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Because we have a modified block schedule, Elizabeth Laba and others often want to post announcements that would only really apply to spe...

Enhancement for duplicating agendas

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Jeremy Walker
October 25, 2022 15:01

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Our teachers regularly ask for this update: *When you go to “duplicate” an agenda to another day on the calendar, it would be nice if yo...

Moving from one gradebook to the gradebook in another section

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Sue Steiner
June 07, 2018 23:49

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In the older version off Buzz, I could move between gradebooks of various sections with 2 clicks. Now in the Next Buzz it takes me 4 cli...

Discussion Board Replies for Teachers

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Ryan Josephson
March 09, 2016 16:34

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It seems that the ability to reply to a post from the activity pop out window has been lost with the upgrade to Buzz from Brainhoney. ...

Replying to Feedback

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Ericksoncecilia
February 16, 2018 18:37

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Hi! I was wondering if there is a way for me to reply to teacher's feedback, is that at all possible?

Communicate Feature

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RCSD eLearning Team
February 05, 2016 15:23

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We'd like to see some improvements to the Communicate feature. Have email be completely internal – no need to use an outside system, but ...

Allow "Retry Arrow" and "Excuse" Function Directly in Gradebook Mode

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Wendy Cooley
January 22, 2019 18:35

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Journal/Blog Improvements

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RCSD eLearning Team
February 05, 2016 15:28

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We'd like to see some improvements to the Journal/Blog activities within Buzz. A better way to grade them. When used throughout the cl...

Speed Up Batch Updating of Retries

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Ivan Traylor
April 26, 2021 16:11

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There absolutely may be a fix or better way to address this. I am not sure that having a way to 'not count' auto zeroes as an official 'a...

responding to feedback

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Editor
September 13, 2017 21:58

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Is there a way for students to respond to the teacher's feedback on a particular assignment so that there is a mini-discussion thread be...

Missing Assignments

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Susan Valentine
January 14, 2016 14:41

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We would like to label missing assignments with a M. Also, teachers would like to be able to then just pull a list of missing assignment...

Clipboard feature/email

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Mpearson
August 25, 2021 12:51

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It would be really nice to be able to send out a mass email, and be able to personalize it with the student's name. (see below) Hi [Name...

practice activity grade in-progress

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Bruce Sharp
January 29, 2021 12:54

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The way Buzz currently scores practice activities is counter-intuitive for students, parents, and teachers alike. Can you please have sco...

Blog Needs to Notify Student of Comments

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Wendy Cooley
August 12, 2017 21:52

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Hi! I am trying the student Blog activity for the first time. It could be great, but PLEASE, PLEASE fix a few things as quickly as pos...

Gradebook score total display (from Ryan Collier)

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Jeremy Walker
September 03, 2015 12:56

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Ryan Collier writes: In BrainHoney, when I entered a score, the student’s overall grade updated. Now in Buzz, when I enter a score, the ...

email verification

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Bruce Sharp
April 20, 2021 17:38

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Can you please add a column (maybe in the people page) to show which students have and have not verified their email addresses? I know ou...

Workspace example answer

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Bruce Sharp
November 16, 2020 17:51

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I am creating fill-in questions that have a workspace. If the students fill in the correct answer it is graded by the server. If they ent...

Linking to Course Activity from Feedback

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Lyn Franklin
August 02, 2018 13:52

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I see similar questions about this dating back over 2 years; however, I do not see any answers. In Brainhoney, teachers could hyperlink ...

Blogs and Journals

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NorthStar Academy: Kristi Velasquez
November 22, 2016 20:44

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Hi Everyone, Having the ability for students to collaborate and connect with each other is a game changer. We love these features. THANK ...

Ability for Students to Review Activities Easier

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Kevin McBride
May 20, 2016 18:55

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I have noticed that fewer students seem to ask questions about answers that have been marked wrong than in the past. I have found that on...

Mobile Student App for Buzz (iPhone and Andriod)

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Ole Thomassen
April 05, 2016 17:36

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This is a question from one of our school administrators. Does Agilix plan to introduce a mobile app (iPhone and Android) for students ...

Adding an option to disable spell check from the assessment template

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Susan Valentine
March 21, 2016 20:32

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Elementary teachers often use the assessment template to test students on their spelling. They would like a disable spell check feature ...

Assignment answer key--Bianchi

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Jeremy Walker
February 10, 2016 14:06

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Jen Bianchi has suggested that it would be useful for her course team to have the ability in the settings panel to attach an answer key d...

Course linking requested (from Melissa Beach et al.)

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Jeremy Walker
August 27, 2015 23:07

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Melissa writes: Hi Jeremy, Is there a way to hyper link announcements in Buzz to the course items? I used to just click the button in...

Assessment Question Format (Questions linked to Passages)

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Laura Green
June 05, 2024 21:16

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When linking questions in an assessment to a passage and lining them up to the right of the passage, can you change the default size for ...