Buzz: Questions & Answers

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Adding/removing live session tasks from student to-do lists
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  • Paul Vandeyar
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I am trying to investigate options for improving the process of adding/removing live session tasks from student to-do lists in Buzz, incl...
API Calls and Groupings
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  • Paul Vandeyar
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Is there a possibility of using API calls to manage groupings and edit visibility within groupings at the master level in Buzz?
Completed, needs grading
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  • Victoria Findley
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Many of my students' work is not coming up to the needs grading bar. It is throwing off progress and grades. How do I make sure that all ...
School Pathways Buzz Bridge Issue
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  • Luke Shoulders
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Hello, we have been getting reports all morning about students not being able to login to Buzz through School Pathways. They get this err...
Landing Pages
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  • Paul Vandeyar
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Hello,   Can you let me know if we can limit specific areas on landing pages for teachers to edit?  I want to try to keep the landing pag...
Student Groupings
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One of the largest operational pain points in Buzz is the manual management of student groupings. These groupings are used to manage acco...
exporting content
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  • Jeffrey Miller
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is there a way to export created content from buzz onto google drive or desktop?
schema/architecture for Agilix Buzz?
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  • Paul Vandeyar
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Quick question - Do you have handy a table schema/architecture for Agilix Buzz? We're working on Snowflake Architecture. We know what i...
View-ability + Compatibility
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Hi Buzz Team, I wanted to share a recurring challenge I’m seeing with students navigating the platform, and also offer a suggestion. Many...
PDFs not viewable
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  • Julianne Cochran
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Our team used to be able to view PDFs and Word Documents submitted for grading in the Buzz content window.  We are still able to see the ...
Past Course Feature
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  • Krystal Nunez
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We use the "past courses" feature so much in Buzz when collecting data. In the past, we could always sort by school year which was so hel...
Custom Role and Permissions
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Hello  We are looking to disable access to advanced course settings, including grade categories, grade scales, grade periods, and other d...
Cannot upload video
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  • Glen
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I am trying to build a course in Buzz as an admin but am having trouble uploading video. I go to add an activity and select "File attachm...
Tracking Teacher time in Buzz
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Does buzz track how long a teacher takes to grade an assignment?   Does it track each session, or is it a cumulative clock?   Say you an...
Accommodations for learners
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I have a clarification question. Currently, we set up all of our core courses to force students to go "in order", they must complete t...
Indicator in Buzz for teachers to define permitted AI use on assignments
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Is it possible to consider adding a button for teachers to use where they can indicate level of AI use permitted for students on the asse...
Any reason why a manually graded dropbox cannot have score Cleared?
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Hello! Are there any other factors for why a manually scored dropbox assignment could NOT be "Cleared" for a score? I was just testing tw...
Users Locked Out too quickly
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Hello, My User accounts are needing to be reset too often for us. Is there a way to lengthen the amount of time before I need to "Reset L...
Error when clicking on any assignment .eDynamic
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  • Alfredo Villarreal
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Hi, we have a user that whenever she clicks on any assignment gets the below error message. Please advise  
Delete or hide lessons for one student
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I have a student who needs to start their Buzz class in Unit 4 instead of at the beginning. Is there a way to delete or hide the unit 1-3...
How to grade
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  • Kelli Sanders
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My school assigned me as an observer, but I need a teacher setting to grade work. How can I switch over?
BusyBee Features Access to Student Data
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  • Lindsey Luciani
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Is there documentation available that indicates the student data accessed for each of the different BusyBee features? For example: "Get H...
Course Cards
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  • Natalie Ruecker
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The students are not seeing their grades on their course cards even tough we followed the directions for setting up the course settings.
Retries on "Formative Assesments" and impact on Excused activities
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Hello! Currently, we have Credit Recovery courses set up to utilize the following for unit pre-tests and testing out of certain material:...
"Automatically allow retries for below-passing activities" setting not working retroactively
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Hello! We are testing out some of the Advanced Options in Course Settings and noticed that the "Automatically allow retries for below-pas...
Suspended student showing in gradebook
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  • Ann Schroeder
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I have a student whose enrollment has been suspended, but I still see her in my gradebook. How do I know she is suspended?
Student Grades Not Populating in Gradebook
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Two of our teachers cannot see the students grades in their Gradebook.
Assignment Finished Won't Update That It Is Finished
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My assignment says that I got 100% but it won't update that I finished the assignment so it says that I have 83% of the class finished w...
Turnitin Assignments not Registering as Complete
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We have Turnitin added to many of our written assignments in Buzz. Today, students are submitting these but Buzz is not marking them as ...
Gradebook errors when passing to School Pathways
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Our team has noticed that the grade book that gets passed to School Pathways from Buzz does not seem to match. One item we noticed is th...