Buzz: Questions & Answers

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Hiding grades in student view

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Jocelyn Kolle
April 21, 2016 13:49

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Is there a way for an assignment/grade to show up only for the teacher's view once complete? I have an assignment that once done I would ...

Folder Landing Page - Where does the content come from?

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Sami Forster
April 20, 2016 18:30

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In the release notes that described the Activities Folder Landing Page addition, the screenshot and text indicated that besides folder co...

Performance (Gradbook Problems)

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Misty Berrett
April 18, 2016 17:03

Implemented feature idea or fixed bug

Friday, April 15, we started having problems with the performance (gradbook) window for several classes. The filter option is no longer f...

Test Retry

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James Carpenter
April 07, 2016 18:17

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I'm new to the system and need a little bit of direction. I am trying to set up a test so that I can allow a student to retake the test ...

Pass/Fail Option

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Byron Heath
March 28, 2016 17:40

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Is there any way to do a pass/fail option in the gradebook, or maybe as a grading scheme option under the final grades?

Question banks - NWEA

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Cheree Childers
March 21, 2016 18:20

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Is there a way to access NWEA question banks in Buzz?

Up Next

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Charlie Thayer
March 18, 2016 18:09

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The Up Next indicator on the student's homepage seems to drive the student back to something that has not been "Marked as Completed". Is ...

Turning in Assignments

2 2

Cheree Childers
March 08, 2016 23:20

Answered

Is it possible to utilize Dropbox and TurnitIn?

Report with all courses, all students and all grades?

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Melissa Lambrecht
March 08, 2016 15:36

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Hi there! Could you direct me where to find a 'roll up' report with all active students, all active courses and all grades? Thank you! :)

Deleting Student account with Data

5 2

Susan O'Byrne
February 29, 2016 20:58

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Can a student account with data be deleted?

Accreditation Documentation

2 2

Pam Horneck
February 28, 2016 23:15

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We are finishing up re-accreditation and I need some verbage that talks about the safety/security of students using Buzz. Is there a web ...

Match expression

1 3

Bruce Sharp
February 26, 2016 02:33

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I want to write a fill in the blank question where I give the students a polynomial such as 2x + 3x^2 -1 and they have to write it in sta...

File Uploading Limits

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Michael Miller
February 16, 2016 13:40

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Last year at the Agilix conference it was mentioned that the file uploading limit was going to be increased to 1 GB. When is this schedul...

Inline Matching Table

2 2

Bruce Sharp
February 15, 2016 22:03

Answered

I am trying to create a table of geometric shapes and their properties as column and row headings. The students would click the pop-up me...

Students can't access assignments

5 3

SchoolPathways
February 09, 2016 16:46

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One of our schools is having trouble accessing Compass Learning assignments. The student view says "Exit" and the title of the activity...

Office 365

1 2

Theresa Carter
February 08, 2016 23:04

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I, too, have districts asking if there are plans to integrate O365 with Buzz.

Assessment issue with multiple answer questions

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Susan Valentine
February 08, 2016 14:59

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When teachers are using the multiple answer questions the points earned don't match the points given. In the below example, there are 3 ...

Building assessments (regrading)

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Matt Harr
February 05, 2016 16:39

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I build a lot of assessments and it never fails on a new test that a student comes up with a different answer that is actually correct. ...

Observed users vs. observed enrollments

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Jeremy Walker
February 05, 2016 14:36

Answered

What is the difference between observed users vs. observed enrollments? Currently, we create observed enrollments for our parents for eac...

Student-Teacher Communications

1 1 3

Dennis Killmer
February 01, 2016 17:44

Feature idea (LEVEL 2)

Hi there, In Washington State we are required to document weekly, two-way contact between teachers and students taking online courses. Ha...

How do I change mastery level in a prescriptive course?

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Shannan Skidmore
January 31, 2016 00:41

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I am using an Edivate Learn prescriptive course and I would like to change the mastery level from 80% to 90% for all the pre-tests. Curre...

Self Registration - Email Reset Password question

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Aileen Sweeney
January 28, 2016 14:02

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What is the maximum expiration time limit for the email set password message link? We would like to add the amount of time that the user ...

Returned Attachment

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Kevin McBride
January 28, 2016 05:08

Answered

In the activity grader, what is Returned Attachment, and how do I use it?

Student See Group Members

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Kevin McBride
January 28, 2016 04:28

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Are students able to see their group members and group name for an activity? Thanks!

Due Date in the Future

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Ryan Nelson
January 25, 2016 15:15

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I have a teacher and myself trying to edit the due date and visibility for an activity. It will not allow us to put in a future date. W...

Student Is Not Enrolled Message

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Heath Hamrick
January 21, 2016 03:15

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Ok, I've had this come up several times with several students: they will say that Buzz will let them log in, but not complete work becaus...

Importing Course from Zip file

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Heath Hamrick
January 17, 2016 19:52

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In previous versions of both BrainHoney AND Buzz, a course could be exported (and, indeed, a Buzz course still has that option) to a zip ...

Rearrange Order of Courses on Home Page

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Kevin McBride
January 15, 2016 17:24

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Is there a way to rearrange the order of courses on the Home Page and Course drop-down menu?

Extra Credit in Homework

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Flew Flewelling
January 15, 2016 01:22

Feature idea (LEVEL 1)

I have some homework assignments that in Buzz I would like to make the last question be extra credit. I put Options: ExtraCredit for tha...

Inconsistent Points Available

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Byron Heath
January 11, 2016 16:36

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The total score for an assignment is 56 points so for most students the score field in the grade editor shows ___/56. However, for one s...