Buzz: Tips & Tricks

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Tips & Tricks Guidelines

Ryan Richins (Agilix team member)
July 23, 2015 18:05

Feature idea (LEVEL 2)

We hope that one of the greatest strengths of the community will be the opportunity to learn how Buzz is being used to optimize learning ...

Themes

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Annie Vassar
March 13, 2024 14:38

Answered

Is there a way when doing themes to make the entire folder a theme that trickles down to each activity within the folder? Would LOVE for ...

Crossword Assessment Question

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Jason Albertson
February 06, 2024 21:57

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A colleague asked me today if we could somehow create a crossword quiz question in Buzz. It turns out you can! It just takes a fill-in-th...

Create and Configure Custom Menu Entries Using Replacement Variables

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Steven Martins
February 09, 2023 23:10

For users that desire to create and configure custom main menu entries using replacement variables, the example video and supplemental ar...

Bulk Edit

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Julianne Cochran
August 30, 2023 15:59

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We have many items in our courses that we would like to change settings for. Is there a way to bulk edit settings such as students markin...

Turnitin LTI 1.3 Integration with Buzz

Jessica Enderson
June 09, 2023 01:02

Answered

To avoid receiving an error message from Turnitin, and successfully integrating, the following steps were helpful. I have attached an ima...

Configure an FTP Client or ClassLink to Sync OneRoster File to Buzz

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Brian Williams (Agilix team member)
December 06, 2022 20:53

For users that desire to upload a OneRoster file through an FTP client or import from an SIS like ClassLink, the example video and supple...

New year...new subdomain?

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Kim Hett
April 26, 2022 18:47

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How do you begin a new school year? Do you keep the same domain and edit the title and domain settings to match the year? This I think ...

Current Recommended Screen Settings

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Melissa Piette
September 15, 2021 19:45

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I'm wondering how I can make sure that my learners have the most content real estate on their screen. I have users on Chromebooks and Ma...

Buzz on mobile?

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Savannah Wenger
August 27, 2021 22:04

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We have a client that wants to use Buzz on hundreds of students' mobile devices - is there a way to access Buzz on a mobile like Dawn? (K...

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...

Mastery Test

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Chadrik Powell
December 11, 2020 19:45

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First time using a mastery test. Can I set test questions to be attempted twice if first choice is wrong? I noticed that you could give...

Generate Progress Report

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Ashlyne Walton
January 17, 2021 17:26

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How do I generate a report for all students including current grade and % of progress in course?

Buzz

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Kyla Tracey
October 26, 2020 17:55

Answered

A easier way to acess buzz is if you bookmark buzz into your bookmarkss then it's all right there when you open up google and you don't h...

Feedback Template Groups

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Jamie Moen
November 05, 2020 21:50

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Is it possible to create subgroups in the Feedback Template Groups? For example, if I have a Math Group, can I create a test subgroup, an...

Beth Olthoff

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Beth O
October 23, 2020 14:16

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How do you modify the number of attempts in a module game?

Assignment Release Date

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Kailee Ross
September 01, 2020 22:42

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How do I make an assignment visible to students on a certain day? The assignment is already uploaded into their course, but it is hidden....

Clipboard or Duplicate Activity

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Amanda McBriar
October 05, 2020 14:35

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When adapting assignments to meet the individualized needs of students with IEPs, what is the easiest/fastest way. Should you duplicate t...

Mark as Done (for students to use)

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Tim Madden
September 23, 2020 19:41

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How do I set an activity so that students can mark it as Done, but they would not be submitting anything to the Buzz web site? Otherwise...

Proficiency based grading... what to do?

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Thomas Collette (Agilix team member)
July 14, 2015 19:25

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This is a quick video to discuss what we do today with grading and where we could go with Proficiency based grading.. https://youtu.be/f...

iPad single sign on issue

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Brooke Tyree
September 11, 2020 18:23

We use a SIS (Genius) and have some schools who are using iPads. On other devices the SSO works great. For some reason even when follow...

Blackout Dates

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Roger Bevels
August 31, 2020 15:05

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I added blackout dates at the domain level, but the courses are still showing assignments due on these dates. Did the blackout dates have...

Allow Late Submissions by default for all assignments etc

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David Slavin
August 31, 2020 18:52

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Hello , Is there a way to allow late submission for assignments etc for the whole course? I am hoping to not have to go in set this opti...

Authoring a course that is non-linear

Brad Marshall (Agilix team member)
June 09, 2020 00:14

In most traditional courses, students progress linearly through most of their online coursework. However, there are some instances where ...

Ordering courses

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Weight, Shelley
April 09, 2020 02:52

I like that you can order the courses. If I were a student, I would reorder them based on due dates each day. This would allow me to st...

Hide folders from child courses?

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Varshini G
April 01, 2020 16:08

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Is there a way to hide or make certain course folders unavailable for the child courses?

Domain level Roles

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Varshini G
March 25, 2020 15:05

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Is there a non-admin, non-teacher custom permission set on the domain level that will allow edits to enrollments like the enrollment star...

Understanding Homeschooling

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Cynthia Young
December 19, 2019 17:02

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Ok so this is my first time homeschooling a child and I have a few questions. First of all how do I know what assignments my daughter has...

Student email

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Odalis Tavares
June 13, 2016 17:31

Implemented feature idea or fixed bug

When a student is enrolled in the course, do they receive an email confirmation? Or can they be emailed?

Sorting To-Do List by assignment date in Buzz

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Sarah Peterson
October 14, 2016 04:36

Implemented feature idea or fixed bug

I have just joined my school and have a lot of back work to grade. I know that the oldest assignments kind of seem to be listed first but...