Buzz: Product Feedback

Share your thoughts and make suggestions about Buzz.

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Journal/Blog Improvements

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Allison RCSD
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...

Gradebook Improvements

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Allison RCSD
February 05, 2016 15:26

Feature idea (LEVEL 1)

We'd like to see some improvements to the Performance/Gradebook for teachers Have last login show for that class only. Currently when yo...

Chat with Your Teacher

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Allison RCSD
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...

Communicate Feature

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Allison RCSD
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 ...

Advanced Editor--Inline questions--more flexibility in formatting requested

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Jeremy Walker
February 03, 2016 15:59

Feature idea (LEVEL 1)

Our Geometry teachers have built some nice looking proof questions using the inline, multiple options in the advanced editor: Type: MTOpt...

New admin interface--add ability to search/filter across domains

Jeremy Walker
February 02, 2016 18:39

Implemented feature idea or fixed bug

I love how easy it is to switch from domain to domain to sub-domain, etc. in the new admin interface. Unfortunately, I don't always know ...

New admin interface--add Description to User screen

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Jeremy Walker
February 02, 2016 18:35

Implemented feature idea or fixed bug

The new user screen looks and works fabulously. Much cleaner! Unfortunately, it doesn't include the Description for a student: whereas ...

Printing Grades

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Allison RCSD
February 02, 2016 15:26

Implemented feature idea or fixed bug

When printing the grades for students (not a report but just printing their grades from the gradebook), it seems to work better in BH tha...

New Admin Interface--add term column to user screen

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Jeremy Walker
February 02, 2016 15:06

Implemented feature idea or fixed bug

First, with just a few little actions, a comment or two on the new admin interface: Wow, Amazing, Outstanding, Thank Goodness, OMG I thin...

Add user id to visible column options

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Jeremy Walker
January 28, 2016 00:19

Feature idea (LEVEL 1)

Please consider adding user id to the visible column options. As an admin, it would help me to be able to proxy in as a teacher, trouble-...

Add "about" button above or below new help button

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Jeremy Walker
January 28, 2016 00:17

Feature idea (LEVEL 1)

Since the "about" information is so helpful, could it also become an icon on the sidebar either above or below the help icon? Honestly, i...

Group settings--allow mandatory grouping--Flewelling

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Jeremy Walker
January 28, 2016 00:12

Feature idea (LEVEL 2)

Jerome Flewelling sets up discussion groups at the beginning of the year and has all of his students split up into smaller groups, which ...

Allowing late penalties by time after due date

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Jeremy Walker
January 27, 2016 23:57

Feature idea (LEVEL 2)

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...

Issues with using due dates--consider adjusting retry function--Flewelling

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Jeremy Walker
January 27, 2016 23:51

Implemented feature idea or fixed bug

Jerome Flewelling asked me recently how teachers deal with absent work in relation to also using the stop accepting submissions button in...

Assessment editor display in pages by question bank--Wietbrock

Jeremy Walker
January 27, 2016 23:31

Feature idea (LEVEL 1)

We ran into an issue where an assessment with 117 questions was not processing well on Chromebooks and the suggestion was to have the ass...

Course Cards: Progress--student ownership of view and multiple option display

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Jeremy Walker
January 27, 2016 23:20

Feature idea (LEVEL 1)

Our students really like being able to see the letter grade on the course cards now (as of 1/21/16), but some would also like to see the ...

Footer suggestions for due dates

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Jeremy Walker
January 27, 2016 23:06

Feature idea (LEVEL 1)

In addition to the automatic zero option that I just tossed out as a comment to one of Heath's posts, I think the following could be addi...

Copy Modules with Digital Library

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Michael Miller
January 25, 2016 17:16

Answered

Is it possible to copy an entire Module with its components using the Digital Library feature into various courses so that you could easi...

Internal Instant Messenger or Email System, Student Log

Heath Hamrick
January 22, 2016 16:42

Feature idea (LEVEL 2)

Just a couple of requests for a future iteration of Buzz from full-time virtual school: 1. Some kind of internal communication that doesn...

TODO List and the Processed / Remaining Indicator

5 1

John Struchynski
January 20, 2016 16:38

Implemented feature idea or fixed bug

A number of our instructors miss BrainHoney's Processed/Remaining indicator. They also miss the ability to expand the TODO list column (l...

Temporary Zeroes

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Heath Hamrick
January 17, 2016 19:54

Answered

Would love an option to mark assignments that haven't been turned in as a zero...BUT NOT have that then drop of their To-Do List.

Missing Assignments

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Susan Valentine
January 14, 2016 14:41

Feature idea (LEVEL 2)

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...

Ability to Mark a Student Absent

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Flew Flewelling
January 05, 2016 16:01

Feature idea (LEVEL 2)

I'd like to see the ability to indicate whether a student was absent for an assignment. There are a bunch of different ways this coul...

Possible issue with touch screens

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Jeremy Walker
December 18, 2015 18:37

Answered

We have a student who consistently seems to have an issue where he answers everything on a matching test and submits, but then when the t...

Letter Grade in Grade Book

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Jocelyn Kolle
December 17, 2015 15:33

Answered

I would like the letter grade to show up in the online grade book as it did in Brainhoney. Currently I can only see the percentage and no...

Audio Feedback

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LeRoy Nelson
December 15, 2015 16:55

Implemented feature idea or fixed bug

Is Buzz capable of giving student feedback via voice recorder? I often find it quicker and more personal to give verbal feedback to stud...

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 ...

Matching Questions: Questions Float

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Flew Flewelling
December 09, 2015 15:48

Answered

We often do picture vocabulary quizzes where the students have to match the words to the pictures. Because of the size of the 'answers,'...

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...

Curving Assignments

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Flew Flewelling
December 02, 2015 20:31

Feature idea (LEVEL 1)

I'd love to see the ability to curve an assignment in ways other than simply adjusting the top score. Some examples: In my AP Course, ...