Activity overview Posts (22) Comments (25)
Jason Albertson created a post,
forum Buzz Messages - Behavior Suggestion
    1. Discussions
    2. Buzz: Product Feedback
  • 2 followers
  • 0 comments
  • 0 votes
Feature idea (LEVEL 1)
I received this message from one of my colleagues and thought it was worth passing on. -- I really like having the ability to push a message through the Inbox from the grading page. However, I do n...
Jason Albertson created a post,
forum Discussion forum grader - wordcount by post?
    1. Discussions
    2. Buzz: Product Feedback
  • 1 follower
  • 0 comments
  • 0 votes
Feature idea (LEVEL 2)
Hey guys! In the grading screen, I love the stats Buzz provides (number of posts, avg wordcount, etc.) -- I just wish there were also a wordcount listed for each post. Is that a thing already tha...
Jason Albertson commented,
comment View comment
    1. Discussions
    2. Buzz: Product Feedback
    3. Adding non gradable items to to do
  • 0 votes
Hi Betsy! Just a fellow Buzz user, not a Buzz staff person, but I've played around some with what you're describing for some classes I've taught.  My experience has been that you can set up an acti...
Jason Albertson created a post,
forum Discussion Forum Idea
    1. Discussions
    2. Buzz: Product Feedback
  • 2 followers
  • 0 comments
  • 0 votes
Feature idea (LEVEL 1)
A probably wildly impractical idea that would make discussion forums better: What if you could tag users in discussion posts? Something like, "Hey Student B, I see that you're thinking along simila...
Jason Albertson created a post,
forum Assignments weighted zero always fail?
    1. Discussions
    2. Buzz: Product Feedback
  • 3 followers
  • 1 comment
  • 0 votes
Answered
Not sure whether this is a bug or an expected behavior, but thought it was worth mentioning: Across multiple courses, I have found that when I set an assignment's weight to zero, it is always marke...
Jason Albertson commented,
comment View comment
    1. Discussions
    2. Buzz: Product Feedback
    3. Tutoring participants wanted! Join our free pilot!
  • 0 votes
This sounds like a helpful development, Brad! As I've shared this info with some math teachers at my institution, they had some questions about how the tutoring actually works. Will students have ...
Jason Albertson created a post,
forum Crossword Assessment Question
    1. Discussions
    2. Buzz: Tips & Tricks
  • 3 followers
  • 1 comment
  • 2 votes
Answered
A colleague asked me today if we could somehow create a crossword quiz question in Buzz. It turns out you can! It just takes a fill-in-the-blank question and an HTML table. Sharing what we came up ...
Jason Albertson created a post,
forum Bulk update due time?
    1. Discussions
    2. Buzz: Product Feedback
  • 2 followers
  • 0 comments
  • 1 vote
Feature idea (LEVEL 1)
It would be amazing to be able to bulk update due dates and due times for activities. Ideally those two would be separate options, so you could bulk update activities to be due at the beginning of ...
Jason Albertson created a post,
forum Anti-cheating feature idea
    1. Discussions
    2. Buzz: Product Feedback
  • 3 followers
  • 1 comment
  • 1 vote
Feature idea (LEVEL 1)
Would there be a way to disable text selection on assessment activities that wouldn't also prevent screen-reading apps from working for students with vision impairment? If it were possible to pre...
Jason Albertson created a post,
forum Due time
    1. Discussions
    2. Buzz: Product Feedback
  • 1 follower
  • 0 comments
  • 1 vote
Feature idea (LEVEL 1)
It's really laborious to set the due time for activities currently. Would it be possible to add the option (possibly in course settings?) to set the due time for a whole class at once? For example,...