Buzz: Questions & Answers

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A note from team Agilix about recent performance issues

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Brad Marshall (Agilix team member)
February 02, 2024 21:43

Dear Buzz community, I am often reminded about how many of you are educational heroes. You have to confront so many challenges and you do...

Help Center Discussion Guidelines

Ryan Richins (Agilix team member)
July 23, 2015 17:37

Feature idea (LEVEL 2)

Welcome to Agilix Help Center Discussions! This is where you can most actively engage with your peers and the Agilix team. These discussi...

Q&A Guidelines

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Ryan Richins (Agilix team member)
July 23, 2015 18:04

Feature idea (LEVEL 2)

Use Buzz’s Questions & Answers forum is to look for answers to your questions, answer other users’ questions, and post important question...

Images in Assessments (beta editor)

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Byron Heath
July 12, 2016 16:21

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I'm having some trouble adding images into assessments using the new editor. I can press "New" and choose a file from my computer, or cho...

Is there a way to delete a score in the gradebook?

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Burt Lo
October 25, 2017 16:47

Feature idea (LEVEL 1)

In the past, I was told that a teacher cannot delete scores in the gradebook. Has that changed? Or, is the only solution, still to allow ...

Message Length Limited?

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Julianne Cochran
August 30, 2024 22:02

Implemented feature idea or fixed bug

Did the new messaging feature change the allowed length of messages? Teachers are getting errors when trying to send feedback.

Missing "New Thread" Button in Discussions

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Julianne Cochran
November 16, 2023 22:18

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Students no longer appear able to write new threads on discussion activities even though we have this setting turned on.

Assignments Should Show Rubric Point total when the Settings are set to Rubric, and NOT the Points

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Tabatha Kilgore
December 01, 2021 23:16

Implemented feature idea or fixed bug

In the setting on an assignment, if you build a rubric, in the gradebook before grading it shows everything out of 100 points. This is b...

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 ...

Import Grades

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Matthew Cooley
August 23, 2015 23:10

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What format do you need to import grades in? I don't see any information on the formatting or how it work.s

Assign the same due date to options in a choice folder in a continuous course

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Sophie Samson
August 23, 2024 00:44

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My course is set to continuous. I created folders and enabled student choice, then added two choices. Buzz automatically assigned DIFFERE...

This Page could not be found

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Krystal Nunez
November 14, 2023 17:00

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Students and Teachers are getting an error message that is not allowing them to enter Buzz. 😦 This page could not be found Sorry, but t...

Course setting "on" although not chosen

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Julianne Cochran
June 21, 2024 15:24

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I have a student who cannot move forward in their course until viewing each screen for a minute. However, that setting is not turned on....

verifying phone number

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Chelsey Martin
March 04, 2021 01:26

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I signed into my buzz account and it said my email and phone number were not verified. I was able to verify my email, but when I try to g...

To-Do List

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Laurie-Ann Wyse
April 26, 2018 22:14

Implemented feature idea or fixed bug

Hello! I have two questions. The first is more of a functionality question, and second is more preference/aesthetics. 1) I am curious i...

Breaking Connections to a Master

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Lyn Franklin
June 22, 2017 20:51

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We have a vendor that is about to make changes to their courses and our child copies have active students that will be impacted. What is ...

Keep Re-Do's off the To-do list

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Leigh Sisneros
May 21, 2020 23:11

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Buzz just released an update that puts assignments that are allowed a retry onto the student to do list. We are literally 4 days from th...

Automatic 0's with a retry

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Neal Kent
October 09, 2019 13:28

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We would like to switch our courses to make it so students receive an automatic 0 once an assignment is past due, however we want the stu...

Why is the eText section not showing a mark of completion in the gradebook?

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Ramsey Education
May 03, 2019 16:18

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Though there is a column in the gradebook for each eText assignment, a completion mark is not populating once students have completed the...

Support for SHA-256

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Dennis Killmer
December 18, 2015 23:12

Implemented feature idea or fixed bug

Is it possible to configure SAML using SHA-256?

Different Questions/Different Number of Attempts

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Flew Flewelling
November 03, 2015 19:44

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Is there a way in Buzz to assign a different number of attempts to various questions in an assessment or a homework assignment? Example...

Course is not appearing on student dashboard?

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Stephanie Curnalia
March 06, 2023 19:33

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I have enrolled a new student into a course, but on the student side it is not on their dashboard. I've logged in as the student and do n...

Auto-Zeroed assignments are being marked complete even with that option unchecked

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Heather Adovnik
January 18, 2023 03:41

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In my course settings > Advanced Options I set a check for "automatically assign zero scores to past-due activities" and then unchecked t...

Teacher Notifications regarding Student Enrollment Change

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Deanna Nelson
May 16, 2022 19:25

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I have this setting checked in my user account as a Teacher. Am I to assume that if a student is enrolled at any time in one of my course...

Missing Value

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Mjorgensen
August 06, 2021 19:03

Implemented feature idea or fixed bug

I am using variables to create a table of points to represent linear and nonlinear data sets. For some reason if the eval function resul...

Adding Content with Multiple Pages

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Amanda McBriar
November 12, 2020 14:15

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I am building my own content within Buzz. Is there a way to make the content multiple pages so it does not all appear on one screen at once?

Google Doc Upload

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Heather Pannucci
September 26, 2017 15:54

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Good afternoon, I am writing to inquire about the uploading of Google Docs to the courses in Buzz. An adviser working with a student ca...

Khan Academy in Buzz

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Burt Lo
September 14, 2017 00:32

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In Buzz, I have been able to find Khan Academy Resources (by linking to Khan Academy activities through the Buzz Digital Library). I have...

Objective Mastery by completion

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Josh Kaplan
May 17, 2017 13:54

Feature idea (LEVEL 1)

I am attempting to have students reach mastery by completing activities rather than by grading them. In other words, I want the objective...

Prompt asking users to verify email/phone?

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Peter Bartanen
February 25, 2021 18:44

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Hello, We're seeing a prompt requiring our users to verify their email and phone. We have young students who we do not provide access to...