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Requesting a Feature: Restricting File Type Uploads
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  • Jennifer Reynoso Haymond
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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...
Add Audio and Video to Discussion Boards
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  • Melissa Moreno
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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...
Improved communication between teachers of the same course
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  • Susan Valentine
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Our teachers would like to be able to communicate through their course.  We have seen this option in other LMSs so that teachers can shar...
Fix the Blogs and Journals, please!
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  • Melissa Moreno
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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...
Discussion Board Replies for Teachers
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  • Ryan Josephson
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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.    ...
Enhancement for duplicating agendas
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  • Jeremy Walker
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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...
Color alert or special flag for new discussion board posts
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  • Melissa Moreno
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 In BrainHoney, new (unread) discussion board posts appeared with a different color background until they had been read.  They also got t...
Adding an option to disable spell check from the assessment template
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  • Susan Valentine
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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 ...
Missing Assignments
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  • Susan Valentine
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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...
Journal/Blog Improvements
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  • Allison RCSD
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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...
Ability to send announcements to specific groups within a course (from Elizabeth Laba et al.)
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  • Jeremy Walker
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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...
Workspace example answer
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  • Bruce Sharp
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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...
Chat with Your Teacher
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  • Allison RCSD
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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...
Allowing late penalties by time after due date
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  • Jeremy Walker
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We are toying with adopting a school policy that would allow teachers to apply late penalties based on the time that an assignment was tu...
Blogs and Journals
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  • NorthStar Academy: Kristi Velasquez
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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 ...
Replying to Feedback
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  • Ericksoncecilia
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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?
Assignment answer key--Bianchi
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  • Jeremy Walker
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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...
Automatic Retry- Global Accommodation
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  • Larissa Zompolas
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In our instance of Buzz we use the global accommodations that are available on the backend of Buzz for a variety of learners. In addition...
Sort Question Type
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  • Kevin McBride
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With the new interactive questions, I was very excited that there might be a way to create a question type that has students sort answers...
Feedback template request
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  • Nkelsch
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Is it possible to add additional variable content for the feedback templates? For example, it would be helpful to be able to add a time/d...
email verification
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  • Bruce Sharp
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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...
practice activity grade in-progress
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  • Bruce Sharp
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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...
Feature request: zero-point assessment questions
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  • Jason Albertson
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Some of our teachers have historically used a non-scored test question to solicit feedback, usually something like, "Do you still have qu...
Ability for Students to Review Activities Easier
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  • Kevin McBride
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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...
Confetti Suggestion (Submitting an assignment)
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  • Kelsey Loomis
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This is a seemingly useless and probably funny suggestion to some, but I genuinely think you should add a confetti animation or popup whe...
Need to Add Feedback Features!
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  • Nkelsch
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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 ...
Agenda - Wasted Real Estate
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  • Flew Flewelling
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When I view the Agenda in the Agenda Editor, it takes up the whole width of the screen. (https://drive.google.com/file/d/1TnxQHTYNORN7Igc...
Icon for late submissions after auto-zero
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  • Jason Albertson
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Teachers at my institution love the ability to make late assignments auto-grade as zero but still allow late submission. Auto-zeroed assi...
Student To Do List Reports
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  • Jennifer Jaworski
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When parents ask "What is my child missing?" as of now, I can direct observers to the To Do List in the gradebook view, but it would be n...
Mobile Student App for Buzz (iPhone and Andriod)
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  • Ole Thomassen
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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 ...