Buzz: Product Feedback

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Product Feedback Guidelines

Ryan Richins (Agilix team member)
July 23, 2015 17:57

Feature idea (LEVEL 2)

Welcome to the Buzz Product Feedback discussion. Here, you can share your thoughts about Buzz, make suggestions, and find out what we’re ...

Lockdown browsers for tests

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Jodi Hook
March 14, 2017 20:08

Feature idea (LEVEL 1)

Hi all I would like for Buzz to create a lockdown brower for when students are taking tests. Google and Google Translate pages are just a...

Gradebook Issues

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Laurie-Ann Wyse
July 22, 2019 14:58

Implemented feature idea or fixed bug

The new gradebook format has several issues that are making it very difficult or impossible to use. While on a PC, I can scroll in the g...

Flip Grid type discussion boards

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Melissa Moreno
May 09, 2018 20:30

Feature idea (LEVEL 1)

I love the fact that you have added the ability for teachers to give students audio and video feedback when grading assignments. I also ...

Add Audio and Video to Discussion Boards

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Melissa Moreno
December 14, 2017 16:53

Feature idea (LEVEL 2)

Could you please add the same audio and video messaging capability (but for all users in this case) that you have added to Teacher Feedba...

Temporary Zeroes

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Heath Hamrick
January 17, 2016 19:54

Answered

Would love an option to mark assignments that haven't been turned in as a zero...BUT NOT have that then drop of their To-Do List.

Continuous Enrollment Due Dates

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Dennis Killmer
September 28, 2015 22:03

Implemented feature idea or fixed bug

We use the continuous enrollment course type and assignment due dates are automatically calculated using enrollment start and end dates. ...

Please fix the background for the new grading pop up window

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Janice Mills
September 24, 2024 19:53

Answered

When I click on the grading template icon and the grading template window pops up, the background is grayed out and I cannot see the grad...

Need to Add Feedback Features!

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Nkelsch
November 03, 2022 19:02

Feature idea (LEVEL 2)

Access to teacher feedback is still clunky and laborious for students. The feedback loop is one of the most critical factors for student ...

Fix the Blogs and Journals, please!

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Melissa Moreno
May 16, 2018 12:45

Feature idea (LEVEL 2)

I am a math teacher and would love to use blogs and journals in my classes. However, currently they are no better than simple text docum...

Scrolling Issues

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Kelly Calderone
April 18, 2017 15:52

Implemented feature idea or fixed bug

There is a bug with scrolling in Buzz Groups and Gradebook. When using the mouse wheel to scroll in the gradebook, the screen barely move...

retaking tests- only retake what was answered incorrectly

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Ccarey
October 04, 2017 14:50

Answered

It would be wonderful if there were an option in the allowing retakes that students only had to retake what was answered incorrectly ins...

Chat with Your Teacher

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Allison RCSD
February 05, 2016 15:24

Feature idea (LEVEL 2)

We'd like to see an instant message/chat feature within Buzz that can be used between teachers/student! Chat with your teachers - If your...

Audio Feedback

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LeRoy Nelson
December 15, 2015 16:55

Implemented feature idea or fixed bug

Is Buzz capable of giving student feedback via voice recorder? I often find it quicker and more personal to give verbal feedback to stud...

Drawing on screenshots in Feedback area...

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Russell Cieslica
September 25, 2024 15:30

Implemented feature idea or fixed bug

Whenever I used to copy/paste a quick screenshot into the FB area, automatically a little box of "mark-up" options appeared, and I could...

Glitchy Embedded links in activities/landing page

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Natasha Viecco
September 12, 2024 13:05

Answered

I have embedded links with canva into my landing page and have found that they disappear throughout the year. Its frustrating to have thi...

Feedback Thread

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Julianne Cochran
May 09, 2024 22:56

Implemented feature idea or fixed bug

My team would like to request that Buzz consider creating a "thread" in the feedback area on assignments. We would like students to be a...

Requesting a Feature: Restricting File Type Uploads

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Jennifer Reynoso Haymond
February 03, 2023 18:39

Feature idea (LEVEL 2)

Hello! I am a teacher and teach courses on Buzz. I also teach courses on Canvas. On Canvas there is a feature that allows teachers to res...

Student gradebook not loading after recent update for some courses

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Jordan Bender
October 19, 2022 16:25

Answered

One of our teachers let us know that when she tries to view a students grade book for a few courses from the performance tab of a student...

Ability to send announcements to specific groups within a course (from Elizabeth Laba et al.)

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Jeremy Walker
November 12, 2015 16:40

Feature idea (LEVEL 2)

Because we have a modified block schedule, Elizabeth Laba and others often want to post announcements that would only really apply to spe...

Discussion Board Grading

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Katie Larson
November 06, 2015 21:39

Implemented feature idea or fixed bug

When a student's discussion board assignment is opened up in the grading queue, all the replies are nested, and inconvenient to click thr...

7/13 Update Request

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Chad T. Lower
July 14, 2023 14:13

Answered

Prior to the 7/13 update, when I went to gate an assignment, I could look at the icons and know which pages were lesson pages and which w...

Enhancement for duplicating agendas

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Jeremy Walker
October 25, 2022 15:01

Feature idea (LEVEL 2)

Our teachers regularly ask for this update: *When you go to “duplicate” an agenda to another day on the calendar, it would be nice if yo...

Issue with Hover

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Chad T. Lower
May 02, 2022 18:38

Implemented feature idea or fixed bug

On the 4/28 release, you mention, "Resolved a hover style issue with Activity grader when horizontally scrolling over a pinned column." I...

After Today's Update: Difficult to Use Gradebook

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Wendy Cooley
December 14, 2018 12:30

Implemented feature idea or fixed bug

Hi! The update from 12/14 has made it much more time consuming for me to work in the teacher Gradebook part of Buzz. It is quite a big ...

Moving from one gradebook to the gradebook in another section

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Sue Steiner
June 07, 2018 23:49

Feature idea (LEVEL 2)

In the older version off Buzz, I could move between gradebooks of various sections with 2 clicks. Now in the Next Buzz it takes me 4 cli...

CK12

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Melissa Moreno
June 19, 2017 18:46

Feature idea (LEVEL 1)

Could you investigate adding CK12 to the Library resources? They work with Canvas, Blackboard, Google Classroom, and Schoology, so they...

Request for Public Question Bank

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Kevin McBride
March 22, 2017 21:41

Answered

One of the most time-consuming areas in Buzz is writing and building quality assessment questions. It would be great if we were able to ...

Force-submit homework and assessments

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Bruce Sharp
November 04, 2016 14:18

Feature idea (LEVEL 1)

Can you please add the feature to homework (maybe assessments already do this?) to have an option to force submit homework activities? Ma...

Requested changes in Buzz

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Priscilla Wan
August 09, 2016 18:08

Answered

Hi! I really love our new BUZZ LMS! You guys rock! There are two changes my colleagues and I are really really really hoping will be do-a...