Buzz: Product Feedback

Share your thoughts and make suggestions about Buzz.
Lockdown browsers for tests
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  • Jodi Hook
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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...
Flip Grid type discussion boards
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  • Melissa Moreno
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I love the fact that you have added the ability for teachers to give students audio and video feedback when grading assignments.  I also ...
Assessment analytics details
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  • Susan Valentine
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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...
Last submission date
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  • Melissa Moreno
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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
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The recent update to the folder landing page is confusing for our younger students.  We use Buzz K-12 and having additional content that ...
Can students receive a zero but not be marked complete?
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  • Bo Gorcesky
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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...
Make Fill in the Blank responses case insensitive by default
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  • Meri Tunison
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Hello, I would like to recommend that Buzz change the default on Fill In The Blank question types to be case insensitive by default rath...
CK12
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  • Melissa Moreno
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Could you investigate adding CK12 to the Library resources?   They work with Canvas, Blackboard, Google Classroom, and Schoology, so they...
Scheduling for Agenda View
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  • Kevin McBride
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I really like the scheduling tool in the new editor. The drag and drop feature is fantastic. I would like to see the ability to add activ...
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 ...
Easier access to assessment passwords needed
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  • Jeremy Walker
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In the current version of Buzz, we've received a lot of complaints about how difficult it is to find the password for assessments, especi...
Feature Requests
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  • Bruce Sharp
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I have several feature requests. I've asked for a few of these before in separate posts. I thought I'd bring them all together. These wou...
Needing Help on Those Blogs
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  • Wendy Cooley
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I love Buzz so much and so do my students.  I was so in hope that the new Blog feature would be delightfully useful.  However, it has not...
Ability to Make Clipboard Activities Conditional for Retry
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  • Kevin McBride
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I would like to suggest the ability to make completing a clipboard activity conditional for a retry on an assignment. I use clipboard act...
Students being able to recognize the standards
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  • Darleen Maas
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Within our courses, we have connected standards to each of our questions.  The students are unable to see which standard goes with which ...
Auto Updates
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  • Shelly L
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Currently the only way to update an objective in a domain's objective set is to re-import the entire updated objective set. I’d like to s...
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.
Be able to export landing pages
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  • Natasha Viecco
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I'd love to be able to export landing pages to my different courses so that I don't have to do it one by one, similar to how we can expor...
Smaller envelope around course activities
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  • Nkelsch
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Please make the "envelope" around the actual working area in Buzz smaller, so more of the content is viewable. It drives me nuts that the...
Add the ability to assign groups to a test bank question
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  • Flew Flewelling
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We often use Groups to create a more thorough bank of questions in our exams. We would love the ability to add a Groups tag to a Test ban...
Teacher View vs. Student View
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  • Sue Steiner
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I don't know if you have noticed the difference between the student view and teacher view in terms of a completed assignment in Buzz. Wha...
Bulk Edit Improvements
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  • Kevin McBride
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FILTER INCLUDE ACTIVITIES WITHIN FOLDERS When using the "filter by location" function of the bulk edit tool, we are only able to filter ...
Changing from Weighted to Points Based Grading
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  • Katie Simmons
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When I've looked at changing from the built in weighted categories to a points based, the point totals generated don't seem to have the s...
Suggestion: Hot Text
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  • Devin Lewis
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It would be beneficial to have hot text (click on text or drag text) as a question type option in Buzz. Many standardized tests require s...
Enhanced Idle Timeout Features
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  • Michael Denton
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The state of Arizona has some very regulations on funding online education and ADE auditors can reject all funding for a given student if...
Assessment Feedback in Gradebook
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  • Noelle Thomas
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The rubrics in the gradebook allow teachers to select the "Leave Feedback" text so teachers can leave feedback on individual parts of a r...
Allow Drag and Drop to Reorder Questions
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  • Kevin McBride
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After working within the editor for the newer version of Buzz, I am finding many tasks take longer than before. One example is in changin...
Treat unscored as zero
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  • Bruce Sharp
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Could please add this option to the bulk edit? Many teachers at our school go in every week or two and check "treat unscored as zero"  to...
Enhancements for communication tools needed
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  • Jeremy Walker
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We've been struggling with how to email groups of kids and email their observers at the same time. Elizabeth Laba created a quick list in...
Feature request - selective user/server grading
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  • Bruce Sharp
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I would like to see a setting added to fill in the blank questions that I can check to have the question flagged if the student answers i...