From BrainHoney to Buzz Why Upgrade to Buzz? Buzz gives you: • More opportunities to easily personalize student learning. • The data and analysis you need to facilitate effective personalized learning. • More intuitive navigation. • Responsive design to provide access across more devices.
Seamless Transition
Updating from BrainHoney to Buzz is easy. First, switch your current Buzz URL from: brainhoney.com to agilixbuzz.com For example: exampleschool.brainhoney.com would change to exampleschool.agilixbuzz.com If switching your URL doesn’t work, contact your account manager.
We’re committed to making your move to Buzz simple and seamless. Although there are some changes, here’s what you can count on: • No data is lost when upgrading from BrainHoney to Buzz; grades, student submissions, messages, and all teacher-authored content are instantly available on sign-in. • Buzz comes with continued, dependable support and a new online community where you can find help from Buzz’s developers and other users. • The ability for districts and schools to customize aspects of Buzz to fit their specific needs.
From BrainHoney to Buzz
Tool Comparison Review the table to see how tool names have changed. BrainHoney Tool Name
Buzz Tool Name
Communicate
Communication
Dashboard
People
Todo List
Home
Critical Students List
People
Gradebook
Performance
Objectives
Mastery
Final Grades
Final Grades (In Performance)
Syllabus
Curriculum Map
View
Activities
Calendar
Calendar
Digital Library
Search Library (In the Curriculum Map)
Some tools haven’t changed, some have simply been renamed, and some have been entirely reworked to enhance the experience for you and your students. However, you lose nothing. You will still have access to the same intervention data to make sure you can best help every student.
Buzz Tip You can still access the BrianHoney Syllabus from the Curriculum Map if you prefer that tool.
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From BrainHoney to Buzz
New Features What’s better with Buzz?
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New Navigation: Buzz gives you access any tool or course from anywhere. 1. Use the Main Menu to jump between tools. 2. Use the Course Chooser to jump between courses.
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Clipboard: This tool helps you to act on data in the Performance or People tools. Use it to assign additional activities and resources, award badges, and send messages to individuals or groups who need additional help or more engagement. Communication: Post announcements to specific courses or to all courses at once and they appear in the student To-do List. You can also send messages to specific courses. Calendar: The Calendar tracks and displays all assignments and their due dates, and colorcoordinates them by course. You can choose to view a specific day, week, month, or the entire duration of the course. People: This tool provides at-a-glance access to a variety of student data points in one simple, customizable table. It combines grades, mastery progress, pace through the course, data from student self-assessment responses, and much more. Curriculum Map: This tool replaces the BrainHoney Syllabus editor. From this tool you can manage course items (assessments, assignments, discussion boards, etc.), search the library for new content, add thumbnails to images, align objectives, and more. Performance: This tool replaces the Gradebook in BrainHoney. It has been redesigned from the ground up to include many new features and performance improvements.
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From BrainHoney to Buzz Clipboard Tool Breakdown Quick Lists: Create and save student lists and assign activities and tasks, award badges, and send messages to them. Activities: Assign supplemental activities to individual students or groups. Badges: Motivate and congratulate students by awarding badges. Tasks: Assign students tasks to address their individual needs. A task can be as simple as a note or request to meet with the teacher. Messages: Send and receive messages without using external email.
People Tool Breakdown The People tool displays a customizable list of indicators, including, but not limited to: • Self Assessment shows students’ assessment of their own understanding, interest, and effort. • Online shows whether a student is currently logged into Buzz. • Performance shows how well a student has performed on assignments. • Late shows the number of late assignments a student has submitted. • Time shows the total amount of time a student has spent in a course. • Mastery shows the percentage of standards a student has mastered in a course. • Progress shows the percentage of a course a student has completed.
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From BrainHoney to Buzz Curriculum Map Breakdown
Group Projects: Create group projects to encourage collaboration. Each student submits their portion of the project, and you can assign group or individual grades. Quick Add: Easily add links to websites, YouTube videos, or attach files from your computer or Google Drive. Launch Syllabus: Launch the BrainHoney Syllabus editor in a new tab if you prefer it. Some items, like supplemental material and Quick Add, are not available there. Thumbnails: Add images to any item or folder in the course. Thumbnails help students easily differentiate between items. Course Links: Add important links for students to access from anywhere in a course. For example, you may want to link an online calculator to a math course. Student Choice: Create a list of activities and allow students to choose and complete a specified number of them. This lets students personalize their learning plan in a guided way. Search Library: Search the digital library for content resources. The library can include content from a number of sources, including licensed content, district content, content shared by other teachers, and free resources.
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From BrainHoney to Buzz
Performance Tool Breakdown
Responsive Design: This tool has been optimized for large classes and smaller screens to make sure it always loads quickly and works on mobile devices. Quick Edit: Use the Gradebook like a spreadsheet to quickly enter grades. When Quick Edit is enabled, select a cell, enter the grade, and hit Return to move onto the next submission. Filters: Filter your view using the filter icon in the top right corner. Mastery: This feature replaces the old Objectives tool in Brainhoney. It surfaces objective mastery data and allows teachers to drill down into each objective to see individual student mastery percentage. Unit Summary: See an overview of the progress each student has made in a course. Each student has an aggregate percentage bar showing their total progress along with a breakdown of their progress in each unit and folder. For Me: Review personalized tasks for all students using this feature. This includes selfassigned and teacher-assigned work.
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From BrainHoney to Buzz
Web Services API Changes All Agilix products (BrainHoney, Buzz, etc.) run on the same web services platform. When moving from one product to the other, the web services platform will always remain the same. Some customers have created more advanced integrations with an Agilix product via the web services platform, and those integrations will still work regardless of what Agilix product is being used. No data migration will be necessary and all API calls used when integrating with one Agilix product will work with any other products. Of course, more recent products (such as Buzz) use additional API calls not present in older products (such as BrainHoney). Newer calls can be included in those existing integrations to make sure that the integrations take full advantage of all features in available in all Agilix products. However, all older API calls will still work with any new Agilix Product.
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