Intended Audience: Students
About
The Buzz Learning Management System (LMS) allows students to track their progress and understand how they are performing in each course. Grades, instructor feedback, and performance details are easy to access. This guide explains how students can review their grades, assignment details, progress, and mastery levels in Buzz.
Instruction
Accessing Grades
- Click the three horizontal bars in the top left corner to open the main menu.
- Select Grades from the menu options. This page shows each activity's status, score, submission date, and due date (if applicable).
Viewing Grade Details
To see more information about a specific assignment or test:
- Select the linked Course title.
- Click on the Activity Name.
- On the Details tab, students will see Score earned, Activity status, Submission date and time, Time spent on the activity, Category of the activity and Instructor feedback (displayed at the bottom of the page).
Other Grade Details Tabs (If Available)
- Questions: Displays quiz or test questions, the student’s answers, and whether each answer was correct or incorrect.
- Submission History: Shows past quiz or test attempts. The system usually allows two attempts, and the highest score is recorded. Students should contact their instructor for additional attempts, if needed.
- Objectives: Shows how well students are mastering the learning objectives in the selected quiz or test.
To close any grade detail view, click the X in the upper left corner.
Viewing Overall Progress
- Dashboard: Shows the current course score and progress bars to help students track overall performance.
- What If: Allows students to estimate their projected score if a better grade is achieved on another attempt. This can help students plan their study time and future submissions.
Additional Tools in Buzz
- Activity: Displays a table showing the time spent on each activity and the completion date.
- Objective Mastery: Shows how well students understand course standards. A table lists each objective with mastery levels and descriptions.
- Badges: Displays any badges earned by students for completing goals or activities.