Journal activity editor
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Journals are assigned writing exercises that only the authoring student, the teacher, and the student's parent or other ...
Peer assessment activity editor
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Peer assessments allow students to evaluate their peers' performance using a rubric you provide.
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Wiki activity editor
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Wikis allow you to create collaborative writing exercises which can be edited by the teacher and all students in a cours...
Practice questions activity editor
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Practice questions are gradable, question-based activities that use questions you create and/or link question banks.
Th...
Survey activity editor
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Link to surveys built using external tools like SurveyMonkey.
Students click Take survey to open and co...
Project activity editor
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Projects allow you to quickly and easily create robust and organized project activities. You can automatically include a...
Discussion activity editor
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Discussions allow you to create a learning activity in which students can respond to a prompt and interact with other st...
How do I change my User Settings? (Teacher)
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Customize your Buzz experience.
To access your user settings, click the User Menu and select Settings. ...
How do I make an activity's visibility dependent on competency mastery?
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To help learners focus on competency mastery, learners should show mastery before being asked to complete activities that require com...
How do I make changes to multiple activities at once (Bulk Edit)?
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Buzz lets you Bulk Edit certain activity properties with the Editor > Activity List:
Open the Editor from the Main Men...
How do I manage notifications? (Teacher)
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You can set up Buzz to notify you when certain actions and changes occur, like when a student submits an activity or has...
How do I use the Needs grading tool?
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The Needs grading screen lists all of the activities that need grading from all of your courses. You can access it from ...
How do I create Grading Categories?
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Grading Categories allow you to apply different grade settings to groups of activities within the same course. Simply cr...
How do I review notes on student Accommodations?
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Buzz lets administrators easily record Accommodations and other information that inform Individualized Education Program...
How do I create and grade group assignments?
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Only one student in a group is required to make a submissions for a group assignment. You can review the submission and ...
How do I link questions and question banks to assessments?
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The Link question option allows you to select and use a single question or a bank of questions from assessments in the o...
How do I use question pools?
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A pool is a collection of questions. Buzz can be set up to randomly draw a certain number of questions from a pool and u...
How do I use assessment variables?
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Assessment variables allow you to create questions that use different values for each student, presenting them with vari...
How do I use Buzz's rich text editor?
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Buzz's rich text editor is similar to text editors you find in Microsoft Word, Google Docs, and other word processors. I...
How do I set up passages for assessments and practice questions?
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Passage is listed in the question type dropdown, but it is not an interactive question template. You can use it to creat...
How do I attach files to activities?
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Attach a file
You can easily attach files to activities using the activity editors. To do so:
Create an activity or cli...
How do I review and export activity Analytics for my course?
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Review activity Analytics
The Activity Grader includes an Analytics tab that outlines:
Frequency of Scores, which illust...
How do I build tables with the rich text editor?
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To create a table with the rich text editor:
Click Insert Table.
Select the number of cells you want in each row and ...
How do I print assessments for students to complete?
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Buzz makes it easy to print and track unique assessments for students.
There are many reasons you may w...
How do I create blackout dates for my course?
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Use blackout dates to ensure accurate due dates in continuous enrollment courses.
Continuous enrollment courses are self-pac...
How do I configure group-specific activity settings?
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Vary settings (content, due dates, grade weights, etc) between groups.
With groups created in Buzz, you...
How do I upload and manage course resources?
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The Resources panel
To manage course resources with the Teacher app, open the Editor from the Main Menu and...
How do I import settings into my course from a course template?
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Apply existing gradebook settings from course templates.
Your system administrator can add course templ...
How do I use replacement variables?
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Easily personalize your students' experience with variables.
This article covers:
What are replacement variables?
Where ...
How do I create landing page content for folders?
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Provide students with a description of a folder's activities, goals, potential pitfalls, etc.
Folder la...