Buzz: Product Feedback

Share your thoughts and make suggestions about Buzz.

Feature ideas (LEVEL 2)

Product Feedback Guidelines

Ryan Richins (Agilix team member)
July 23, 2015 17:57

Feature idea (LEVEL 2)

Welcome to the Buzz Product Feedback discussion. Here, you can share your thoughts about Buzz, make suggestions, and find out what we’re ...

Quick Edit Option in Gradebook to use arrows- Can this be added?

Salina Ruffing
September 04, 2020 15:05

Feature idea (LEVEL 2)

Is there a way to make the Quick Edit option allow you to move across or down the grade book page using the arrow buttons on the keypad? ...

Add a Badge for Student App To-Do List

Kevin McBride
August 30, 2020 14:18

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The todo list at the top of the student app does not have a badge to show how many items are due. This could be helpful in drawing studen...

Show Grades in the Student Activity Stream on Course page.

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Kevin McBride
August 30, 2020 14:04

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In the new activity player, it would be helpful if students were able to see the grade and feedback notification for assignments without ...

Daily Agenda Navigation

Bruce Sharp
August 28, 2020 20:07

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My daily agenda typically has links to several activities: videos, assignments, etc. When I click a link, say for a video, the video open...

Add Audio and Video to Discussion Boards

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Melissa Moreno
December 14, 2017 16:53

Feature idea (LEVEL 2)

Could you please add the same audio and video messaging capability (but for all users in this case) that you have added to Teacher Feedba...

Due Date for Folder

Marc Collins
August 05, 2020 23:06

Feature idea (LEVEL 2)

Certain curriculums are set up with topics broken up into several activities in buzz. As opposed to needing to assign each activity to th...

Scheduler for Groups

Marc Collins
August 04, 2020 05:10

Feature idea (LEVEL 2)

I understand how to differentiate due dates with groups - it is summed up in the following statement : "When you create a due date or gra...

Essay Assessment Editor

LeRoy Nelson
June 16, 2020 18:59

Feature idea (LEVEL 2)

I think a good audio video option would be good in the essay assessment text editor. I realize pictures and video can be put into the es...

Capturing Data

Summer Soltis
June 02, 2020 17:16

Feature idea (LEVEL 2)

I want to be able to make informed decisions on where my students need more support in lessons based on the data from exams. Currently, ...

Upfront information in Course Syllabus

Witold Ferens
May 15, 2020 21:17

Feature idea (LEVEL 2)

In a Syllabus view, the only information presented about an item is whether an item is visible or not. It would be immensely helpful if a...

Managing resources - organization and access

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Witold Ferens
May 14, 2020 23:04

Feature idea (LEVEL 2)

Using resources is extremely cumbersome. The files cannot be renamed; the dialogue window for inserting a resource is tiny, and does not ...

SMS Notifications To Teachers

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Stuart Pask
May 12, 2020 23:27

Feature idea (LEVEL 2)

I really love how it is possible to receive a SMS notification when a student turns in work. The thing is this is ANY work. I sure woul...

Moving from one gradebook to the gradebook in another section

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Sue Steiner
June 07, 2018 23:49

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In the older version off Buzz, I could move between gradebooks of various sections with 2 clicks. Now in the Next Buzz it takes me 4 cli...

Observer Previous/Next Button

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Ryan Josephson
May 01, 2020 19:03

Feature idea (LEVEL 2)

We use the observer role to manage groups of advisory students that we communicate with more frequently than all of our subject matter co...

Add borders to table in agenda

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Elizabeth Laba
March 15, 2020 17:55

Feature idea (LEVEL 2)

When adding a table to the agenda my options are no boarders or a light gray border that is barely visible. Can you please make a darker...

Icon for late submissions after auto-zero

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Jason Albertson
April 08, 2020 14:56

Feature idea (LEVEL 2)

Teachers at my institution love the ability to make late assignments auto-grade as zero but still allow late submission. Auto-zeroed assi...

Please add "Last Login" as a display option under the visible columns to the People display options on the teacher app.

Catherine Keppers
March 19, 2020 17:49

Feature idea (LEVEL 2)

One of the display options for visible columns in the class grade book for teachers is Last Login..... it would be VERY helpful to add t...

Rounding - feature request

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Bruce Sharp
February 21, 2020 19:23

Feature idea (LEVEL 2)

I really need an option in Buzz for fill-answers to be rounded to a given place value. For example, I want students to calculate the tan...

Requested Column in Buzz

Yvonne Shafer
January 31, 2020 20:45

Feature idea (LEVEL 2)

I am wondering if you might consider a second “grade” column in Buzz. The grade that currently shows for our students is the grade for ...

Feature request: Set activity due dates by student time zone

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Jason Albertson
January 31, 2020 18:50

Feature idea (LEVEL 2)

I know this is possible via the API currently, but teachers at my institution would love to see this feature become available via the UI....

Add Pacing Data to GetEntityGradebook2

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Michael Denton
January 21, 2020 18:00

Feature idea (LEVEL 2)

The API cmd=getenrollment3&enrollmentid=&select=metrics returns values for PaceLate and PacePast. Would you please add those to GetEntity...

Parent Observer wanting to Organize Their View of the Course Tiles

Susan Bateman
January 14, 2020 18:46

Feature idea (LEVEL 2)

We have a parent requesting to be able to organize their view of their student's course tiles. Basically, they want to organize tile ord...

Admin Report - Final Grades: Add letter grade to export

Jason Albertson
December 18, 2019 20:59

Feature idea (LEVEL 2)

There's a Grades (Final) report Admins can run in Buzz. It currently only exports final grades in a percentage form, which means that whe...

Insert/Edit Template Fonts

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Elizabeth Laba
December 17, 2019 18:44

Feature idea (LEVEL 2)

When leaving feedback for students can the "edit templates" text (that I click once per semester) be the smaller font and the name of the...

Add Links in Automatic Feedback

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Devin Lewis
December 10, 2019 14:26

Feature idea (LEVEL 2)

I am working in a "practice questions" template. I would like to create automatic feedback that includes an active link to an outside sou...

Click on Due Date Footer to add/adjust due date

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Flew Flewelling
November 13, 2019 14:37

Feature idea (LEVEL 2)

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...

Dropbox: Can "Insert Image" have access to the camera, the way "Insert Video" does?

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Marc Collins
November 01, 2019 20:57

Feature idea (LEVEL 2)

In the dropbox, Insert Video provides the option to upload an existing video OR access to the camera to record from in the dropbox. Howev...

email & replacement variables

Bruce Sharp
October 10, 2019 16:47

Feature idea (LEVEL 2)

It would be great if we could use replacement variables in emails to students and parents (observers) with info like the number of missin...

Send mail dialog suggestion

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Jason Albertson
October 09, 2019 12:46

Feature idea (LEVEL 2)

I'm hearing from teachers that they'd like a change made to the Send mail dialog. If they open it and compose an email, then need to back...