July 2025
- Enhanced matching: Drag-and-drop questions now automatically size the choice and answer dimensions.
- Find activity button: Added to the Standards-based grading Gradebook toolbar to allow users to search for activities by title.
- Headers and footers: Domain administrators can now define a header and a footer to be printed with student Grades pages.
- Label updates: Updated labels in Course settings to use the term “minimum-activity score” instead of zero.
- Rendering equations: Improved the way equations are rendered in Buzz-authored content so that SpeechStream can read them.
- Publish Anywhere toolbar: Fixed an issue where the fullscreen button would show in an LMS that does not allow it.
- Assessment question-progress text: Fixed an issue where the text would display twice after dropping an image into a rich-text editor while completing an essay question.
- Assessment highlighter tool: Fixed an issue where using the tool on questions containing equations would sometimes cause the equation to not render correctly.
- Restoring deleted users: Fixed an issue where new usernames were being created instead of restoring the original username.
- Content template activity: Fixed an issue where adding the '<' character in a plain-text template field would cause that character and any text following it to not be displayed for a student viewing the activity.
- Fixed an issue with the System licensing Add-on feature where the Download usage CSV window wouldn't fully populate all content.
May and June 2025
- For Gradebooks in Standards-based grading courses, we added the Dashboard tab, which includes student proficiency and awarded badges.
- We updated the SIS Sync settings to allow administrators to disable updates for expired enrollments that are no longer shared through the sync: Do not update unshared enrollments that are expired.
- We updated the SIS Sync settings to allow new users that are added to the sync to be automatically merged with existing users if the usernames match: Match new users to existing users by username.
- Fixed an issue in Digital library search where selecting an activity type would not filter the results by the selected type.
- Fixed an issue where a Canvas IMSCC quiz with only one essay question would be imported into Buzz as an Assignment activity type instead of as an Assessment activity type.
- Fixed an issue where using up/down arrows in the activity list on the Course home page would skip every other entry in the list.
- Fixed an issue in the Student > Course home screen where the teacher's name would overflow if it was too long.
- Before the fix:
- Before the fix:
February 2025
- Fixed an issue in the Grade Editor where changing an activity’s Due date for a student would cause other activity settings to be removed, including the option to launch Website content in another window.
To test:
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- Create an assignment activity.
- In the Activity tab, select Website as the content, provide URL, and check the Popup in a new window box.
- In Settings Activity settings, provide a Due date, make the activity Gradable, and Save.
- Open the Grade editor for that activity (note the student you’ve chosen).
- Change the Due date for that student.
- Sign in as that student, and open the activity.
Before the fix, the URL did not open in a new window.
- Updated the copyright year in the About dialog.
- Updated Assessment templates to accommodate assessments where there are more Questions in Buzz than placeholders in the HTML template. If there are more questions than placeholders, the questions are now automatically placed after the last placeholder.
- We fixed a style issue in the rich text editor’s Embed content tool. When the Google document was selected, the Choose Google file button and the Launch in Google's edit mode checkbox were not aligned.
- Fixed an issue where deleting a user would sometimes fail.
- Fixed a style issue where some icons on the Submission attachment buttons were being clipped.