Buzz: Product Feedback

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Feature ideas (LEVEL 1)

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...

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 ...

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...

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 ...

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...

Make Fill in the Blank responses case insensitive by default

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Meri Tunison
October 23, 2024 20:19

Feature idea (LEVEL 1)

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
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...

Scheduling for Agenda View

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Kevin McBride
August 21, 2016 04:02

Feature idea (LEVEL 1)

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
September 26, 2023 18:21

Feature idea (LEVEL 1)

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
December 11, 2018 15:19

Feature idea (LEVEL 1)

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
November 13, 2018 19:21

Feature idea (LEVEL 1)

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
September 22, 2017 19:49

Feature idea (LEVEL 1)

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
April 20, 2016 15:33

Feature idea (LEVEL 1)

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
December 10, 2015 16:26

Feature idea (LEVEL 1)

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
April 03, 2025 20:35

Feature idea (LEVEL 1)

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
January 12, 2023 14:36

Feature idea (LEVEL 1)

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
January 12, 2023 14:27

Feature idea (LEVEL 1)

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
November 03, 2022 19:16

Feature idea (LEVEL 1)

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
May 19, 2022 12:27

Feature idea (LEVEL 1)

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
November 16, 2020 15:46

Feature idea (LEVEL 1)

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
November 04, 2020 15:50

Feature idea (LEVEL 1)

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
December 13, 2019 19:50

Feature idea (LEVEL 1)

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
October 30, 2019 18:50

Feature idea (LEVEL 1)

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
October 28, 2019 20:51

Feature idea (LEVEL 1)

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
October 24, 2019 17:35

Feature idea (LEVEL 1)

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
August 03, 2018 22:26

Feature idea (LEVEL 1)

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
January 18, 2018 13:22

Feature idea (LEVEL 1)

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
October 19, 2016 15:47

Feature idea (LEVEL 1)

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
September 28, 2016 14:09

Feature idea (LEVEL 1)

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...