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...

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...

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...

Improved communication between teachers of the same course

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Susan Valentine
April 13, 2016 20:25

Feature idea (LEVEL 2)

Our teachers would like to be able to communicate through their course. We have seen this option in other LMSs so that teachers can shar...

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...

Assessment analytics details

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Susan Valentine
April 13, 2016 20:22

Feature idea (LEVEL 1)

When we use the assessment analytics, we would like to be able to easily click to see which students did not do well on specific question...

Discussion Board Replies for Teachers

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Ryan Josephson
March 09, 2016 16:34

Feature idea (LEVEL 2)

It seems that the ability to reply to a post from the activity pop out window has been lost with the upgrade to Buzz from Brainhoney. ...

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...

Color alert or special flag for new discussion board posts

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Melissa Moreno
August 30, 2016 21:06

Feature idea (LEVEL 2)

In BrainHoney, new (unread) discussion board posts appeared with a different color background until they had been read. They also got t...

Adding an option to disable spell check from the assessment template

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Susan Valentine
March 21, 2016 20:32

Feature idea (LEVEL 2)

Elementary teachers often use the assessment template to test students on their spelling. They would like a disable spell check feature ...

Excuse Quick Edit

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Ryan Josephson
March 09, 2016 00:00

Implemented feature idea or fixed bug

It would be really convenient to add the option to excuse assignments as a quick edit. Students that transfer to our school mid-semester...

Missing Assignments

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Susan Valentine
January 14, 2016 14:41

Feature idea (LEVEL 2)

We would like to label missing assignments with a M. Also, teachers would like to be able to then just pull a list of missing assignment...

Discussion Board Responses

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Michael Miller
November 20, 2015 23:05

Implemented feature idea or fixed bug

Would it be possible to add alerts to the student news feature notifying them when someone has responded to there post in a Discussion Th...

Last submission date

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Melissa Moreno
April 18, 2019 14:32

Feature idea (LEVEL 1)

Would you please add a column to the gradebook that says "Last submission date"? This is more useful than the "Last Login Date". Studen...

Folder landing page

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Susan Valentine
April 05, 2016 17:28

Feature idea (LEVEL 1)

The recent update to the folder landing page is confusing for our younger students. We use Buzz K-12 and having additional content that ...

Journal/Blog Improvements

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RCSD eLearning Team
February 05, 2016 15:28

Feature idea (LEVEL 2)

We'd like to see some improvements to the Journal/Blog activities within Buzz. A better way to grade them. When used throughout the cl...

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...

Workspace example answer

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Bruce Sharp
November 16, 2020 17:51

Feature idea (LEVEL 2)

I am creating fill-in questions that have a workspace. If the students fill in the correct answer it is graded by the server. If they ent...

Chat with Your Teacher

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RCSD eLearning Team
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...

Allowing late penalties by time after due date

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Jeremy Walker
January 27, 2016 23:57

Feature idea (LEVEL 2)

We are toying with adopting a school policy that would allow teachers to apply late penalties based on the time that an assignment was tu...

Issues with using due dates--consider adjusting retry function--Flewelling

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Jeremy Walker
January 27, 2016 23:51

Implemented feature idea or fixed bug

Jerome Flewelling asked me recently how teachers deal with absent work in relation to also using the stop accepting submissions button in...

Blogs and Journals

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NorthStar Academy: Kristi Velasquez
November 22, 2016 20:44

Feature idea (LEVEL 2)

Hi Everyone, Having the ability for students to collaborate and connect with each other is a game changer. We love these features. THANK ...

Can students receive a zero but not be marked complete?

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Bo Gorcesky
October 23, 2020 18:40

Feature idea (LEVEL 1)

A received some feedback from one of my virtual teachers that we wanted to share with you guys: Can the developers change the software s...

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...

Please add the email feature from the missing assignments tool in BH to Next Buzz!

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Jeremy Walker
May 16, 2018 13:26

Implemented feature idea or fixed bug

When doing a demo session of the Next Buzz this morning, someone brought this issue up again since it was a feature that we had in BrainH...

I would like a Due Date on Retries

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Joe Bysiek
April 18, 2016 13:51

Implemented feature idea or fixed bug

I would like the option for retries to go away when in a new grading period. That way students grades will not change after the grading ...

Assignment answer key--Bianchi

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Jeremy Walker
February 10, 2016 14:06

Feature idea (LEVEL 2)

Jen Bianchi has suggested that it would be useful for her course team to have the ability in the settings panel to attach an answer key d...

Enhanced Workflow with Google Docs

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Kevin McBride
November 16, 2015 14:47

Implemented feature idea or fixed bug

I would like to request a feature to allow for an easier workflow for assignments that are Google Documents. This type of workflow is ava...