Buzz: Product Feedback

Share your thoughts and make suggestions about Buzz.

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Product Feedback Guidelines

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

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

Essay Assessment Editor

LeRoy Nelson
June 16, 2020 18:59

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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?

Marc Collins
November 01, 2019 20:57

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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

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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

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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...

Comment Box on Assignments

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Mjorgensen
October 01, 2019 19:45

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Is there a way to remove the comment box from the student's dropbox? Students are pasting their documents into the comments instead of u...

Chat with Your Teacher

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RCSD eLearning Team
February 05, 2016 15:24

Feature idea (LEVEL 2)

We'd like to see an instant message/chat feature within Buzz that can be used between teachers/student! Chat with your teachers - If your...

"Allow Late Submissions" alongside "Allow Retry"

Marc Collins
September 13, 2019 00:49

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I get several requests from teachers about allowing a late submission for individual students (without needing to set up groups or changi...

Discussion Board Replies for Teachers

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Ryan Josephson
March 09, 2016 16:34

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It seems that the ability to reply to a post from the activity pop out window has been lost with the upgrade to Buzz from Brainhoney. ...

Feature request: zero-point assessment questions

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Jason Albertson
September 12, 2019 14:24

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Some of our teachers have historically used a non-scored test question to solicit feedback, usually something like, "Do you still have qu...

Select Multiple Activity Types with Bulk Edit

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Kevin McBride
August 28, 2019 15:35

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Currently in the bulk editor, you can only select one activity type to edit at a time. For example, if I need to change the grading perio...

Add groups to export information in the Gradebook

Jeremy Walker
August 21, 2019 20:17

Feature idea (LEVEL 2)

It would be fantastic if groups were a checkbox for information that could be exported via the Gradebook. Currently we are forced to use...