Buzz: Product Feedback

Share your thoughts and make suggestions about Buzz.

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...

Student viewing weight of the assignments

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Christine Dorico
July 13, 2016 20:25

Feature idea (LEVEL 1)

This option has not be added to our students accounts? Do you have any updates on when it will be? How can the student see the weigh...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

REQUEST: Include Choice Assignment in Gradebook

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Bill Carroll
June 17, 2016 18:56

Feature idea (LEVEL 1)

Currently, Choice Assignments don't show up in the gradebook. Please add them instead of making us hunt for them under "By Me".

Google Doc Suite and Add-on's Integration in Buzz

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Jennifer Parzych
April 20, 2016 15:30

Feature idea (LEVEL 1)

We have been trying to utilize Buzz in conjunction with the Google Doc Suite since we are a GAFE school. Our institution also utilizes th...

Announcements

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RCSD eLearning Team
February 05, 2016 15:35

Feature idea (LEVEL 1)

We'd like to see some improvements to the announcements that teachers can post. Option to force students to view certain important announ...

Grading: Enter Key equals Submit button

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Flew Flewelling
December 06, 2015 19:29

Feature idea (LEVEL 1)

This is a small suggestion, but when I have an assignment that shows up in my To-Do list to grade, probably because there is an essay que...

Grade by question feature

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Jeremy Walker
October 16, 2015 00:14

Feature idea (LEVEL 1)

We would really love to see Buzz have the grade by question feature that BrainHoney has once you click on the test item. That was a real...

Styling on Past Courses button

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Jason Albertson
June 15, 2022 13:40

Feature idea (LEVEL 1)

Students often miss that they can view past courses' grades and activities, and part of the reason is that the styling on the Past Course...

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...

Microsoft365/OneDrive Integration

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Joseph Gengler
January 14, 2021 19:56

Feature idea (LEVEL 1)

Hello, I know most folks using Buzz use the Google integration, we do as well. I wanted to see if Buzz has future plans to incorporate ...