Buzz: Product Feedback

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Empty Recycle Bin

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Christopher Altman
December 02, 2015 15:00

Feature idea (LEVEL 2)

The ability to restore items that have been accidentally deleted is fantastic. But, from an administrative position, the ability to "empt...

Ability to duplicate a question in the basic editor

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Jeremy Walker
November 24, 2015 23:49

Feature idea (LEVEL 1)

When you are making many similar questions in the basic editor (such as ones that are using variables), it would be great if the user cou...

Discussion Board Responses

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Michael Miller
November 20, 2015 23:05

Implemented feature idea or fixed bug

Would it be possible to add alerts to the student news feature notifying them when someone has responded to there post in a Discussion Th...

Bulk ability to change visibility wanted

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Jeremy Walker
November 16, 2015 15:55

Implemented feature idea or fixed bug

We would really like to see a feature that allowed for entire folders or contents within folders to have checkboxes in the Curriculum Map...

Enhanced Workflow with Google Docs

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Kevin McBride
November 16, 2015 14:47

Implemented feature idea or fixed bug

I would like to request a feature to allow for an easier workflow for assignments that are Google Documents. This type of workflow is ava...

Collapse Grades from Previous Grading Periods in Grades View

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Kevin McBride
November 16, 2015 14:16

Implemented feature idea or fixed bug

We would like to see the ability to collapse the grades from a previous grading period in a course in the grades view. Preferably, it wou...

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...

Discussion Board Grading

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Katie Larson
November 06, 2015 21:39

Implemented feature idea or fixed bug

When a student's discussion board assignment is opened up in the grading queue, all the replies are nested, and inconvenient to click thr...

Icons added to template list (from Johann Sletto)

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Jeremy Walker
October 28, 2015 16:54

Implemented feature idea or fixed bug

Johann Sletto asked if the template icons could be added to the lists in the drop down picker of template types. His argument was that t...

Customize Editor Buttons for Grading Feedback

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Michael Miller
October 27, 2015 20:27

Implemented feature idea or fixed bug

Is it possible to add or customize the buttons on the grading feedback boxes? If not could we have a command sheet reference?

Enable Teacher to set Style Sheets for their course

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Flew Flewelling
October 26, 2015 17:10

Feature idea (LEVEL 1)

Brain Honey allowed teachers to set a style sheet for the course. Buzz does not currently have that function. This is a view in Brain ...

Grading Strike Through

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Michael Miller
October 26, 2015 15:05

Answered

Could a strike through feature be added to the grading tool selection in feedback boxes?

Alerts needed when assigning points over the amount possible (from Mike Depta)

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Jeremy Walker
October 23, 2015 15:06

Feature idea (LEVEL 1)

Mike Depta pointed out that Buzz is not doing something that BrainHoney could do. When a teacher puts in scores that results in a student...

Teacher submitted red zero should prevent student from accessing the item unless specifically granted a retry attempt

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Jeremy Walker
October 22, 2015 17:07

Implemented feature idea or fixed bug

In BrainHoney, when a teacher gave a red zero to a student, the teacher could count on the student not being able to attempt the test unt...

MA questions should be able to award partial credit

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Jeremy Walker
October 20, 2015 16:12

Answered

MA questions should be able to award partial credit based on how many of the correct choices have been selected. Some sort of allowance...

Details in Activities View needs more screen real estate

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Jeremy Walker
October 20, 2015 14:27

Implemented feature idea or fixed bug

We think that the details button in the Activities view should bring up the screen the same way that it does when clicking on the score i...

Homework indicator should be something other than the regular paper icon

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Jeremy Walker
October 20, 2015 14:07

Implemented feature idea or fixed bug

We have had a complaint about the homework indicator in BrainHoney for a long time (with a feature request submitted about it) and had ho...

Student performance screen should default to grades

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Jeremy Walker
October 20, 2015 14:00

Implemented feature idea or fixed bug

We believe that it would be better for students (and especially for their parents) if the Performance screen defaulted to Grades. We ofte...

Export scores should use alpha order (from Jerome Flewelling)

Jeremy Walker
October 16, 2015 00:53

Feature idea (LEVEL 2)

Flew suggests: When exporting out of the gradebook, the students should be in alphabetical order. I’m not sure how it is ordering the stu...

Adjust grade period settings by folder

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Jeremy Walker
October 16, 2015 00:18

Implemented feature idea or fixed bug

We sometimes have disruptions to our schedule that result in us not being able to get to certain bits of content within the intended grad...

Issue with using the enter key (Kelly Loving et al.)

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Jeremy Walker
October 16, 2015 00:16

Answered

Several teachers have been reporting an issue where they will be entering a score (with quick edit off, I think) and if they hit the subm...

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...

Ability for students to "mark up" multiple choice and matching questions

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Jeremy Walker
October 13, 2015 19:08

Implemented feature idea or fixed bug

Students have continued to ask for a feature to help with multiple choice questions, like it greying out or crossing one off when they ha...

Ability to highlight text in the feedback box

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Jeremy Walker
October 13, 2015 19:05

Implemented feature idea or fixed bug

The BrainHoney feedback text editor allows for the highlighting of text which many of our teachers have used over the years in various wa...

Toggle between basic and advanced editor

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Jeremy Walker
October 13, 2015 14:39

Implemented feature idea or fixed bug

The current protocol is that once you've switched an assessment to the advanced editor you can't go back to the basic editor. It would be...

Need to see more of the titles of assignments/folders in Buzz

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Jeremy Walker
October 05, 2015 21:54

Implemented feature idea or fixed bug

Please make the pane adjustable so students can see more of the titles of assignments on the side similar to how they could collapse or e...

Issues with files with # in the title

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Jeremy Walker
October 02, 2015 02:32

Implemented feature idea or fixed bug

I've recently gotten several reports of files with # in the name no longer being available in Buzz (one was an attachment, two were image...

Continuous Enrollment Due Dates

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Dennis Killmer
September 28, 2015 22:03

Implemented feature idea or fixed bug

We use the continuous enrollment course type and assignment due dates are automatically calculated using enrollment start and end dates. ...

Matching not showing up the way in Buzz as it did in BH (from Mindy Pearson)

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Jeremy Walker
September 28, 2015 15:20

Answered

Mindy reported that she had set up her matching questions so that the number side wouldn't scramble. Her coding looks like this: In the...

Show Standards in Activities View

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Kevin McBride
September 24, 2015 17:34

Implemented feature idea or fixed bug

We would like for the standards linked to an assignment or activity to be visible in the Activities View of the course. This can be a lin...