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 ...

Requesting a Feature: Restricting File Type Uploads

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Jennifer Reynoso Haymond
February 03, 2023 18:39

Feature idea (LEVEL 2)

Hello! I am a teacher and teach courses on Buzz. I also teach courses on Canvas. On Canvas there is a feature that allows teachers to res...

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...

Improved communication between teachers of the same course

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Susan Valentine
April 13, 2016 20:25

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Our teachers would like to be able to communicate through their course. We have seen this option in other LMSs so that teachers can shar...

Fix the Blogs and Journals, please!

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Melissa Moreno
May 16, 2018 12:45

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I am a math teacher and would love to use blogs and journals in my classes. However, currently they are no better than simple text docum...

Discussion Board Replies for Teachers

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Ryan Josephson
March 09, 2016 16:34

Feature idea (LEVEL 2)

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. ...

Enhancement for duplicating agendas

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Jeremy Walker
October 25, 2022 15:01

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Our teachers regularly ask for this update: *When you go to “duplicate” an agenda to another day on the calendar, it would be nice if yo...

Color alert or special flag for new discussion board posts

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Melissa Moreno
August 30, 2016 21:06

Feature idea (LEVEL 2)

In BrainHoney, new (unread) discussion board posts appeared with a different color background until they had been read. They also got t...

Adding an option to disable spell check from the assessment template

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Susan Valentine
March 21, 2016 20:32

Feature idea (LEVEL 2)

Elementary teachers often use the assessment template to test students on their spelling. They would like a disable spell check feature ...

Missing Assignments

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Susan Valentine
January 14, 2016 14:41

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We would like to label missing assignments with a M. Also, teachers would like to be able to then just pull a list of missing assignment...

Journal/Blog Improvements

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RCSD eLearning Team
February 05, 2016 15:28

Feature idea (LEVEL 2)

We'd like to see some improvements to the Journal/Blog activities within Buzz. A better way to grade them. When used throughout the cl...

Ability to send announcements to specific groups within a course (from Elizabeth Laba et al.)

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Jeremy Walker
November 12, 2015 16:40

Feature idea (LEVEL 2)

Because we have a modified block schedule, Elizabeth Laba and others often want to post announcements that would only really apply to spe...

Workspace example answer

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Bruce Sharp
November 16, 2020 17:51

Feature idea (LEVEL 2)

I am creating fill-in questions that have a workspace. If the students fill in the correct answer it is graded by the server. If they ent...

Allowing late penalties by time after due date

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Jeremy Walker
January 27, 2016 23:57

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We are toying with adopting a school policy that would allow teachers to apply late penalties based on the time that an assignment was tu...

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...

Blogs and Journals

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NorthStar Academy: Kristi Velasquez
November 22, 2016 20:44

Feature idea (LEVEL 2)

Hi Everyone, Having the ability for students to collaborate and connect with each other is a game changer. We love these features. THANK ...

Assignment answer key--Bianchi

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Jeremy Walker
February 10, 2016 14:06

Feature idea (LEVEL 2)

Jen Bianchi has suggested that it would be useful for her course team to have the ability in the settings panel to attach an answer key d...

Sort Question Type

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Kevin McBride
January 13, 2022 17:01

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With the new interactive questions, I was very excited that there might be a way to create a question type that has students sort answers...

Feedback template request

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Nkelsch
May 12, 2021 16:30

Feature idea (LEVEL 2)

Is it possible to add additional variable content for the feedback templates? For example, it would be helpful to be able to add a time/d...

email verification

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Bruce Sharp
April 20, 2021 17:38

Feature idea (LEVEL 2)

Can you please add a column (maybe in the people page) to show which students have and have not verified their email addresses? I know ou...

practice activity grade in-progress

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Bruce Sharp
January 29, 2021 12:54

Feature idea (LEVEL 2)

The way Buzz currently scores practice activities is counter-intuitive for students, parents, and teachers alike. Can you please have sco...

Feature request: zero-point assessment questions

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Jason Albertson
September 12, 2019 14:24

Feature idea (LEVEL 2)

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

Ability for Students to Review Activities Easier

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Kevin McBride
May 20, 2016 18:55

Feature idea (LEVEL 2)

I have noticed that fewer students seem to ask questions about answers that have been marked wrong than in the past. I have found that on...

Need to Add Feedback Features!

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Nkelsch
November 03, 2022 19:02

Feature idea (LEVEL 2)

Access to teacher feedback is still clunky and laborious for students. The feedback loop is one of the most critical factors for student ...

Agenda - Wasted Real Estate

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Flew Flewelling
October 22, 2020 14:59

Feature idea (LEVEL 2)

When I view the Agenda in the Agenda Editor, it takes up the whole width of the screen. (https://drive.google.com/file/d/1TnxQHTYNORN7Igc...

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...

Mobile Student App for Buzz (iPhone and Andriod)

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Ole Thomassen
April 05, 2016 17:36

Feature idea (LEVEL 2)

This is a question from one of our school administrators. Does Agilix plan to introduce a mobile app (iPhone and Android) for students ...

Communicate Feature

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RCSD eLearning Team
February 05, 2016 15:23

Feature idea (LEVEL 2)

We'd like to see some improvements to the Communicate feature. Have email be completely internal – no need to use an outside system, but ...

Bulk Download

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Natasha Viecco
January 12, 2023 14:26

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Hi, it would be great to be able to bulk download assignments from the "Needs Grading" section since many times we need to run assignment...

Dark mode

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Ruben
May 27, 2021 07:13

Feature idea (LEVEL 2)

I'm a student, and I just think it would be nice to have a dark mode option so that I don't go blind if it's dark in my room. That's all.