Buzz: Product Feedback

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Adding non gradable items to to do
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  • Betsy Springer
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Consider adding this as an assignment setting so that teachers can designate some non gradable items to be included and some to be omitte...
Discussion Forum Idea
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  • Jason Albertson
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A probably wildly impractical idea that would make discussion forums better: What if you could tag users in discussion posts? Something l...
Student gradebook for auto zeros
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  • Betsy Springer
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If not already a feature, can students see a 0* in the grade book when a due date passes rather than just a 0. Teachers see 0* but it is ...
Gradebook Message Template Location
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  • Seikai Lindstrom
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The update with the new location for the Gradebook Message Templates slowed down my grading tremendously. I used to click one time to ins...
Change default size/font for "Open in New Window" websites?
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  • Meri Tunison
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Hello! Is there any way to change the default size/font that displays when we use a Website/Link and indicate "Open in New Window"? See t...
Grading by question
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  • Jacob Paulson
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Hello! It would great if we could grade by each question. So when there are 5 written questions, to be able to grade responses from stude...
Feedback on essay type assessments not appearing
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  • Harry Williams
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We've noticed that feedback is no longer appearing on essay type assessment questions. This is a change: it was previously visible when s...
Anti-cheating feature idea
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  • Jason Albertson
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Would there be a way to disable text selection on assessment activities that wouldn't also prevent screen-reading apps from working for s...
Bulk update due time?
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  • Jason Albertson
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It would be amazing to be able to bulk update due dates and due times for activities. Ideally those two would be separate options, so you...
Plagiarism & Word count
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  • Kimberly Johnson
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Is there a way to imbed a plagiarism checker and word counter into the buzz app on the grading pages. This feature would support both stu...
Ordering of course resources incorrect.
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  • Bruce Sharp
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I'm adding folders for images to use in my Buzz activities. The folders are numbered (and were created) sequentially by unit - section. H...
Table Header in dark theme
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  • Bruce Sharp
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When creating an activity I included a table with a header row and column (using the th html code). This automatically adds a fill color ...
Automatic Badges
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  • Kathleen Stringer
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I would like to see the option to automatically add badges, when the student receives a passing score, as opposed to completes the assign...
Feature Requests X2
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  • Andrea Smith
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1. I would love to be able to receive notification only when a student submits a retry or late assignment. 2. Auto-create class folders ...
Assignment answer key
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  • Jlies
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I would like to have an example answer key to the assignments. Much like in assessments where we can put in a sample answer to see when ...
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We are requesting the ability for a student to see when they have completed the eText & Videos in Dave Ramsey's Foundations of Personal F...
User Experience/Interface
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  • Jacob Paulson
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Hello! I have some feedback about the UX. I just started using Agilix (through Bright Thinker) this past month. I think that there are m...
Feature Request: Custom Assignment Types + Notifications
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  • Tiago Marta
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Hello, it would be a great help for teachers to create custom categories for assignments and then allow to receive specific notifications...
Improve Grading Template Organization Options
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  • Lietty Roig Aloma
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Right now, we are able to put the grading templates into one "group," but it would really improve the grading process to be able to separ...
Be able to export landing pages
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  • Lietty Roig Aloma
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Is there a way to add the export feature to the landing page, similar to how we export our preferred gradebook settings to multiple cours...
To-Do List name change
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  • Rebecca Alstatt
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It would be incredibly helpful if the "To-Do List" was changed to the "What's Due List," to help students realize that it is just a list ...
Buzz Global Accommodations- Expiration Date
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  • Larissa Zompolas
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Your global accommodations that are available for admin users on the backend of Buzz are very useful and handy to ensure learners have wh...
# of course enrollments
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  • Rochelle Nelson
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Recommendation: I would love to have the # of enrollments in each course as a visible column on the course list page.
Default font option for a created course.
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  • Kim Nutting
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I am creating a course in Buzz and I would like to see the ability to set a default font and font size for all the assignments. I know th...
Bulk import question bank
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  • Betsy Springer
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I would like to request the ability to upload question banks via csv or gift. With the new AI tools coming out, Buzz is at a distinct dis...
Visable Non-Graded view in student grade view
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  • Tabatha Kilgore
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Enhancements to Grade View and or Gradebook I hope this message finds you well. I wanted to share some suggestions to improve the user ex...
problem on a site
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  • Henry Kiger
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Operations that change non-concurrent collections must have exclusive access. A concurrent update was performed on this collection and co...
Buzz Accessibility Checker
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  • Katelyn Kreis
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After working with other learning management systems, I have noticed that some (Canvas/Blackboard specifically) have accessibility checke...
Remove Copy and Paste / Lockdown Browser for Quizzes
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  • Natasha Viecco
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Is there a way to stop students from copying and pasting into quizzes? Maybe a lockdown browser.
Gradebook says "Needs grading" but the student hasn't completed/submitted the buzz assignment.
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  • Keith Iddings
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When parents check their child's grades in buzz, assignments that students opened and possibly completed zero problems show an icon in th...