Buzz: Product Feedback

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Implemented feature ideas and fixed bugs

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

Notification for Discussion Board postings & responses

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Chad Kafka (FPS)
March 01, 2019 21:20

Implemented feature idea or fixed bug

(I searched the boards and didn't see, based on title, this idea offered up so sorry of this is a repost) We would like the functionalit...

Grading Templates - Audio/Video feature and organization

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Melissa Moreno
October 23, 2018 14:17

Implemented feature idea or fixed bug

A while back there was an option to add audio and video comments in grading templates. Then this feature was removed. Are there any pla...

REQUEST: Organization Options for Grading Templates

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Bill Carroll
May 24, 2016 19:26

Implemented feature idea or fixed bug

In BrainHoney, the templates used for grading were in alphabetical order. Transitioning to Buzz, the templates used for grading are now ...

Discussion Board Post Visibility

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Ryan Josephson
March 09, 2016 16:21

Implemented feature idea or fixed bug

I have had a teacher request for an added discussion board feature. We would like to be able to hide all student posts until the student ...

TODO List and the Processed / Remaining Indicator

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John Struchynski
January 20, 2016 16:38

Implemented feature idea or fixed bug

A number of our instructors miss BrainHoney's Processed/Remaining indicator. They also miss the ability to expand the TODO list column (l...

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...

Ability to copy an existing rubric for an assignment

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Kevin McBride
September 16, 2015 17:08

Implemented feature idea or fixed bug

Currently, creating a rubric can be a lengthy process. To help streamline, we would like to see the ability to copy an existing rubric th...

Gradebook

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Karen W. Thorne
July 23, 2019 15:17

Implemented feature idea or fixed bug

I prefer the old format, too. In addition to what has been mentioned, the contrast was greater on the old gradebook, making it easier to...

New Preview of Uploaded/Linked Assignments

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Flew Flewelling
April 20, 2016 16:16

Implemented feature idea or fixed bug

When grading assignments, I LOVE how you added the box under the link that shows the file. This is AWESOME! I'd like to suggest that the...

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...

Customize Editor Buttons for Grading Feedback

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Michael Miller
October 27, 2015 20:27

Implemented feature idea or fixed bug

Is it possible to add or customize the buttons on the grading feedback boxes? If not could we have a command sheet reference?

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 ...

Teacher Course Cards

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Dennis Killmer
November 30, 2017 23:17

Implemented feature idea or fixed bug

Hi there, Our teachers would like to rearrange their course cards in Buzz like students can do. Is this a planned feature? Our K-8 teache...

Linking Passages with Question Banks

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Annie Lorek
April 06, 2017 22:36

Implemented feature idea or fixed bug

We are running into an issue as Literature teachers while using question banks. We build passages as a question (passage) to link to cer...

Teacher Feedback Templates Sorting/Organization System Missing

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Erik Hanson
November 08, 2016 14:50

Implemented feature idea or fixed bug

We are a long time Agilx BrainHoney user and now on Buzz. We worked very hard to help our teaching staff create strong teacher feedback ...

Answer choice eliminator

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Jeremy Walker
November 02, 2016 18:34

Implemented feature idea or fixed bug

Amanda Campos writes: Can we put a feature request in for an answer eliminator tool? The Istep [our state accountability test] had a too...

System/Automatic Graded Assignments

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RCSD eLearning Team
May 19, 2016 14:48

Implemented feature idea or fixed bug

For assessments that are made up on entirely system graded questions - multiple choice, matching, etc. - they do not show in the teacher'...

Notifications

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RCSD eLearning Team
February 02, 2016 16:02

Implemented feature idea or fixed bug

This is extremely important to all of us (teachers and students have all asked for it) and we have been asking for it since we started us...

Collapse Grades from Previous Grading Periods in Grades View

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Kevin McBride
November 16, 2015 14:16

Implemented feature idea or fixed bug

We would like to see the ability to collapse the grades from a previous grading period in a course in the grades view. Preferably, it wou...

Link to Edit Assignment from Gradebook

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Kevin McBride
September 20, 2015 19:42

Implemented feature idea or fixed bug

Teachers would like a link to edit an assignment from the gradebook. Currently, in order to change relative weight, due date, or score in...

Click on Due Date Footer to add/adjust due date

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Flew Flewelling
November 13, 2019 14:37

Implemented feature idea or fixed bug

A function that would streamline the gradebook would be to add the ability to click on the Due Date Footer in the gradebook and adjust th...

New Grade Editor doesn't display past due assignment dates with red font

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Jason Albertson
September 13, 2019 13:55

Implemented feature idea or fixed bug

The new grade editor doesn't display the dates for past due assignments with red font anymore. Please bring this back--it's a big help to...

Grade book space - too spread out

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Marc Collins
September 08, 2019 21:16

Implemented feature idea or fixed bug

There is too much space wasted vertically with such thick rows. Perhaps a 'compact display density' similar to what Gmail has. And tryi...