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Buzz Messages - Behavior Suggestion
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    2. Buzz: Product Feedback
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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...
Discussion forum grader - wordcount by post?
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    2. Buzz: Product Feedback
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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...
Discussion Forum Idea
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    2. Buzz: Product Feedback
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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...
Assignments weighted zero always fail?
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    2. Buzz: Product Feedback
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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...
Crossword Assessment Question
    1. Discussions
    2. Buzz: Tips & Tricks
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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 ...
Bulk update due time?
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    2. Buzz: Product Feedback
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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 ...
Anti-cheating feature idea
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    2. Buzz: Product Feedback
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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...
Due time
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    2. Buzz: Product Feedback
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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,...
Discussion Layout Suggestions
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    2. Buzz: Product Feedback
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Feature idea (LEVEL 2)
These are some ideas from teachers I work with about how the Buzz discussion layout might be streamlined/made to match the modern, social feed-esque feel of the new activity viewer (which we love, ...
Due Times & Time Zones
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Feature idea (LEVEL 1)
We have a teacher in the UK teaching an online class. Her local time zone is 5 hours ahead of her students' local time zone. The way things work right now, students see the due time on due dates as...