How do I use Buzz's activity types?
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When authoring content in Buzz, you are given various activity type options. Each activity type is designed with specific ends in min...
How do I manage and/or delete the courses on my Home page?
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With the correct permissions, you can manage your enrolled courses from Home.
Click Manage Courses from the Home page toolba...
How do I create remediation assessments?
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Use remediation assessments to personalize your students learning path.
We all know that every student doesn't learn at the ...
How do I create and manage grade scales?
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Create pass/fail, plus/minus, straight letter grade, and other grade scales to use for course and objective scoring.
Cre...
How do I create activities with Learning Tools Interoperability (LTI 1.1 and 1.3)?
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LTI specification establishes a way to integrate external learning applications, like Turnitin and ALEKS, with Buzz.
Note: B...
How do I import and export scores?
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Import scores
Open the Performance/Gradebook tool for the desired course.
Open the Tools menu and select Import scores.
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How do I set up a continuous enrollment schedule course?
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Let your students guide their own pace with continuous enrollment courses.
Buzz allows two types of enrollment schedules:
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How do I create a Turnitin activity (LTI 1.1)?
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Easily create Turnitin activities right in Buzz.
Note: Buzz has actively supported IMS Global's LTI specification since it w...
How do I manage Course cards?
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What are Course cards?
Course cards appear on the Home page for you and your students, but they display different things.
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How do I change my course's objective mastery threshold?
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Students must meet the objective mastery threshold to show objective mastery.
The objective mastery threshold is the percent...
How do I manage and submit final grades?
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Use the Final Grades screen to review and adjust calculated grades, create and apply additional grading schemes, close enrollments, a...
How do I create grading schemes?
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Buzz allows you to create and use multiple grading schemes in a course.
Grading schemes are criteria-based models for measur...
How do I create agendas for my students?
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Buzz lets you easily build daily agendas for you students to follow.
Enabling agendas
To enable agendas:
Ope...
How do I access help for Buzz?
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Buzz provides help, tailored to where you are in the app
Contextual help
Help is always available at the bottom ...
How do I use the Calendar?
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The Calendar allows you to:
Filter the activities listed by:
Day, showing all activities due on the selected day.
Week, showing...
How do I use the Activities tool?
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Use the Activities tool to review your course.
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How do I use the Communication tool? [Teacher]
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Easily communicate with your entire class, groups, and individual students
In the Communication tool, you can:
Filter the d...
How do I add content from the Digital Library?
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Easily browse, preview, and add content from external content providers.
Using the Editor
You can add content f...
How do I create and use rubrics?
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Use rubrics to help you provide detailed and meaningful grades and feedback.
A rubric is a scoring guide used to indicate ac...
How do I filter the content displayed in Buzz?
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Many of Buzz's screens allow you to filter content by multiple variables, so you can easily access the information you want.
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How do I create multiple grading periods within one course?
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Create separate grading periods, so you can easily divide grades by date range without building additional courses in Buzz.
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How do I vary attempt limits by question?
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Use question groups to apply different attempt limits to questions in the same practice questions activity.
Create questi...
How do I create formative assessments?
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Use formative assessments to personalize your students learning path.
We all know that every student doesn't learn at the sa...
How do I create and/or import objectives/standards?
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Create course-specific objectives/standards or import objectives/standards from the domain.
Buzz lets you create your own co...
How do I review my students' progress on mastering objectives?
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Review classwide and individual progress on objectives to ensure your students are on track.
Effectively determining objecti...
How do I use the Performance/Gradebook tool?
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Record and track all student performance in one place.
Gradebook screens
Navigate to the Gradebook tool with th...
Teacher tool breakdown
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Get to know your toolbox
Teacher Main Menu
From the Home screen Main Menu, you can:
Manage people, activities,...
How do I use Buzz's Curve scores feature?
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Buzz's Curve feature allows you to assign a max possible score that is lower than the activity's original max score.
Lowering...
How do I create a course in Buzz?
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Easily create courses with Buzz.
If you have the right permissions, you can create a course by copying one that already exis...
How do I create Clipboard Tasks?
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Clipboard Tasks are the quickest way to provide trackable intervention and interaction.
Tasks are personalized, non-graded a...