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Due time
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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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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...
Styling on Past Courses button
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Feature idea (LEVEL 1)
Students often miss that they can view past courses' grades and activities, and part of the reason is that the styling on the Past Courses button on the Grades page doesn't make it look like a butt...
Assessment Themes: Option to Tile Background Images
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Feature idea (LEVEL 2)
When assessment themes first went live, background images were tiled by default, which was awesome—it allowed the use of smaller image files, which gave students who live in areas with limited inte...
Request: Max word count on assessment essays
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Implemented feature idea or fixed bug
Essay questions would be enriched by having the option to limit input to min/max lengths. Character counts would probably be the easiest. My use case: I'm giving students the opportunity to justify...
McGraw-Hill Campus Integration
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    2. Buzz: Questions & Answers
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Answered
Has anyone in the Buzz community successfully integrated McGraw-Hill Campus with Buzz? Our institution has one teacher who wants to use MH Campus and just have it populate grades into Buzz for him,...
Report latest submission by enrollment
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Answered
For our distance ed classes, my institution has a policy: 3x per semester, we check whether students are either (1) up to date on their classes or (2) have at least submitted something in each of t...
Additional HTML options in Rich Text Editor
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Feature idea (LEVEL 2)
Love the latest updates to the RTE! I benefitted from several of them yesterday without even realizing it—that's how natural (and needed!) they were. I'd love to see a couple more html style option...
Experimenting with Google Assignments via LTI
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I've been experimenting with using Google Assignments via LTI in Buzz. Buzz's native GSuite integration is sweet, but we have students break it occasionally, usually because they can't figure out h...