Understanding the Course Settings of a Buzz Course

• Course title
• Course thumbnail and Color
• Recommended thumbnail file type: PNG or JPG (Buzz converts all files into PNGs).
• Ideal thumbnail size: 
  400px x 400px (Buzz automatically resizes images, so uploading images smaller than 400px x 400px may reduce quality).
• Term (this field is titled School year if your domain has domain-level Grading Periods set up).
• Start and End dates – These Items will need to be updated within the Imagine Learning Virtual Portal (ILVP, formerly SIS) and not within the Buzz course for student enrollments.
• Whether it's a Continuous course. If it is, specify the number of Days the course should run.
• Whether to Use agendas in this course.
• The course's look and feel with a Hero image that appears full screen at the top of the Activity player.
• Recommended file type: PNG or JPG.
• Ideal size: 2400px x 750px (450K max file size).

Settings based on movement may be selected and allows the content to be hidden from the table of contents. The following actions are also available:

• • Block access until student completes other activity
  • Block access until student masters objective(s)
  • Block Student access until a specific date
  • Requires students to enter a password to view this activity

Lists existing grading categories for editing and allows creation of new categories.

• The minimum Objective mastery threshold by percentage.
• Objective mastery Grade Scale.
• Formative Assessments by specifying:
• The Minimum number of questions that need to be aligned with an objective for a student to show mastery.  
• The overall Minimum score (%) a student must earn on those questions in order to skip the activities meant to teach the objective.
• Remediation Assessments by specifying:
• The Minimum number of questions that need to be aligned with an objective in order for Buzz to assess mastery.
• The overall Minimum score (%) a student can earn on those questions before receiving remediation activity suggestions.

Create pass/fail, plus/minus, straight letter grade, and other Grade Scales to use for course and objective scoring.

• Allow students to see comparative class statistics
• Hide student course-completion percentage
• Automatically assign zero scores to past-due activities (The zero is assigned when the due date passes even if students are allowed to late submissions.)
• When enabled, a Mark
  auto-zeroed activities as complete checkbox appears and allows management of how auto-zeroed activity status is handled.
• Hide teacher names in student reports (If not hidden, teacher(s) first and last names appear in various places the student Grades tool.)
• Students must complete each activity in order (using the order in the Editor > Syllabus)

Course Links allow you to provide students with links to important course resources. Students can access these links from the Course Links button in the Course Home (Activities tool) toolbar.