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 e...
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 your students to follow. Agendas appear at the top of the Course home (Acti...
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 av...
How do I use the Calendar?
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Your Calendar is automatically populated by the things you scheduled in your courses:
Activity due dates which can be managed
I...
How do I use the Course home/Activities tool?
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Use the Activities tool to review your course.
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How do I use the Announcements tool? [Teacher]
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Easily communicate with your entire class, groups, and individual students
When a new announcement is s...
How do I add content from the Library?
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Easily browse, preview, and add content from external content providers.
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Admins:
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How do I create and use rubrics for activities and essay questions?
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Use rubrics to help you provide detailed and meaningful grades and feedback.
A rubric is a scoring guid...
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 w...
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 y...
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.
Effective...
How do I use the Gradebook tool?
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Record and track all student performance in one place.
This article covers:
Gradebook screens
How to manage grades disp...
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 ...
How do I create Clipboard Tasks?
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Clipboard Tasks are the quickest way to provide trackable intervention and interaction.
Tasks are perso...
How do I add students to the Clipboard?
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Use the Clipboard to quickly provide personalized attention to students. It is always available in the toolbar and you c...
How do I create Quick lists in the Clipboard?
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Quick Lists enable you to easily group personalize intervention for a set of students who have similar needs.
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How do I send messages with Buzz?
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Buzz provides multiple ways to email individuals, select groups, an entire class, or students across all courses.
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How do I add activities to my course?
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Buzz lets you create various activity types using the same tool.
Add an activity
Buzz prov...
Buzz authoring: Unsupported HTML tags
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Buzz authoring does not support the following HTML tags:
<link>
<style>
<script>
Using these HTML tags could compromise the securi...
How do I manage relative grading weight values?
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Buzz makes it easy to weight activities individually or by category.
What are grading weight values?
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How do I ensure gradable personalized activities impact student grades fairly?
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Creating personalized activities to effectively and fairly promote each student’s individualized learning path requires some gradeboo...
How do I review personalized activities?
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Buzz promotes various types of personalized activities to help you develop individual learning paths for your students.
Ther...
How do I link to or copy content from another course?
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Sharing approved content between courses and teachers is easy with Buzz.
Enable a course to be shared
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How do I run Mastery Reports?
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Generate Mastery Reports to get a high-level perspective on student performance in relationship to educational standards.
To ...