Buzz: Questions & Answers

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Linking to Course Activity from Feedback
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  • Lyn Franklin
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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 ...
Uploading documents for assessment essays
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  • Micah Stetson
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Is there a way to allow a student to upload a file, like a Word document, as the answer to an essay question in an assessment?
Restore History in Discussion Groups?
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  • Wisconsin Virtual School - Associate Director
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Greetings, Is it possible in the new Buzz UI to use the History feature to restore/reset previously established Groups in Discussion boar...
Somethings wrong with my lessons - I can't see them.
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  • Bianca Martin
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Each page with my lesson that I try to access shows the same thing every time. This just started happening too, what should I do?
i cant get into buzz period
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  • Dhespel66
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so i'm trying to finish my personal fitness class so when i go into my class there is just a blank screen so what do i do
0's vs. Missing in the Grade Book
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  • Erineberg
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Hello, I'm hoping there are others out there that can help with our issue. We use Buzz to create custom courses and access through our st...
Course Copy
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  • William Tinlin
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I am interested in archiving a course and gradebook for review down the road. Is it possible to copy or move a course to a new domain ded...
quiz fails
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  • Hisacsoto10
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I recently reached the limit on quiz retakes and I don't know how to fix it it or what to do and I can't move on until I pass te quiz. Pl...
Video Recorder feedback
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  • Lyn Franklin
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 I am looking for a way to select a recording device that will record my computer screen. n other words, I want the video feedback provid...
.pages file types
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  • Lyn Franklin
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Does the teacher grading preview show .pages file types?
Set dates and assignments to finish course faster
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  • Dee K
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How can I change the end date of the course, so that I can work faster to finish the course before the suggested end date of class. For e...
Final Exam Request
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  • Kiana Ghahary
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I have just finished my online course and am ready to take my final exam, yet I have no information on when to take my exam or where I ne...
Exporting and/or saving Buzz daily agendas
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  • Quinn Robinson
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Hello, I used the Buzz "daily agenda" function to record daily lessons and link outside resources.  Is there anyway to export them before...
Badges for Pace
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  • Jocelyn Kolle
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Hello! I work for an asynchronous online school. One thing we are hoping to do this year is to help students stay on pace in their course...
Deleting a Domain - What happens to courses?
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  • Jeff Lockard
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We have a customer who created a subdomain and copied a course into it.  ST's from the parent customer domain were enrolled in the course...
problem with grad book
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  • Andrewsml
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So I was working hard at doing my lessons, and suddenly... the second lesson goes blank. I can't see anything at all and it won't let me ...
Where did my student in My Gradebook go?
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  • Catarina W
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I graded my student's Semester Final discussion and the Participation grade and when I entered the Participation grade it seems to have c...
Teacher as learner
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  • Jennifer Mills
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Is it possible for a teacher to have the teacher role, but also have the learner role for assigned courses. For example, an teacher is as...
Gradebook Menu Items
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  • Lyn Franklin
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Is it possible to remove the links to "Badges" and "For Me" in the gradebook for a student? I have already disabled badges in the setting...
Rich Text Activity - Do Not See Paragraph Format Icon
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  • Annette Walaszek
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When I use Editor > Add To > Rich Text Activity, I do not see the Paragraph Format choice (new UI). I only see the font and size icons. T...
Assignment Error
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  • Richard Miller
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I am working with a student that is submitting an assignment utilizing Dropbox in Buzz. There are 52 photos attached. When submitting the...
Linked Websites do not display for custom assignments
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  • Erineberg
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Hello, I am trying to create an assignment using a linked website as my content. However, every time I go to preview what the assignment ...
Custom Activity Restrictions
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  • Jordan Bender
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In addition to the normal assessment option we are also using custom activities for some of our some of our assessments. We would like to...
MathJax
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  • Shaun Creighton
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It seems like Buzz uses MathJax to display mathematical notation. When I have used the equation editor and right-click on the resulting n...
Final grade showing as 0
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  • Richard Miller
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I am working with a Teacher that has 0% as the final grade in the grade book even though there are scores listed for assignments. What wo...
Vanity URL
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  • Jeff Lockard
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Is it possible to setup a domain in Buzz such that the URL is not the same as the userspace defined on the domain? Thanks in advance!
Demo video of the features of Buzz?
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  • James Healey
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Hello, I am trying to find a short video of a demo showcasing all of the bells and whistles of Buzz - how good a high quality interactive...
Reset a Grade for Activity and Student TDL
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  • Jeff Lockard
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We have teachers that would like to have quick access to essentially reset a student's grade for a submitted activity so that it appears ...
Inactive vs Withdrawn
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  • Jon McCrea
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What's the difference between the status of "inactive" vs "withdrawn" with regards to enrollments?  What are examples of criteria that a ...
Changing Set Date
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  • Abbie Hammer
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Hi,    I'm trying to change the pacing date so I can move up the end date to an earlier time. I figured out where to set it but when I cl...