Pulse and Buzz Comparison

• SMS
• Student single sign-on (SSO) bypasses the system and redirects to Buzz while others use Pulse as a portal for accessing Buzz

• LMS
• Accessible to students, client teachers, client admins, mentors, and mentor guardians
• Educational environment
• Contains learning objects

• Manages announcements on login page
• Manages client records, courses, users, and enrollments
• Creates and manages client-taught classes
• Creates and manages teacher users and enrollments
• Assigns client roles to mentors
• Roles can be layered offering users the ability to have access to different features
• Ability to view general course settings, including continuous and ranged/traditional courses
• Use data grids for customized data monitoring
• Ability to run enrollment and student activity reports
• Used for material ordering and processing material orders for invoicing 

• Manages LLS master domain and associating hierarchies
• Sets up client domain and configurations
• Manages user subscriptions to domains and content libraries
• Manages the Lincoln Learning Object Repository
• Instructional Services (IS) teaches courses

• Create and enroll students in courses/classes
• Assign client roles to mentors
• Roles can be layered offering users the ability to have access to different features
• Ability to record and store files, such as IEPs, GIEPs, 504s, etc.
• Use data grids for customized data monitoring
  • Enrollment Report
  • Student Activity Report
  • Individual Academic Snapshot data grid (Student Record)
  • Individual Grade Report (Student Record)
• Quick Filters (examples listed below will vary per role)
  • Students I Teach (Users)
  • Students I Observe (Users)
  • Special Education Students (Users)
  • Active Students with No Enrollments (Users)
  • Special Education Status Updated in Last Week (Users)
  • Classes Not Accepting Enrollments Quick Filter (Courses)
  • Classes I Teach (Courses)
  • Active Classes in Archived Courses (Courses)
  • Teacher Class and Enrollment Count Quick Filter (Courses)
  • LLS Taught Classes (Courses)
  • Expired Enrollments (Enrollments)
  • Enrollments I Teach (Enrollments)
  • Enrollments I Observe (Enrollments)
  • Special Education Students (Enrollments)
• Ability to view general course settings, including continuous and ranged/traditional courses

• Students complete lessons to progress through the course
• Teachers can customize the learning experience, as well as grade student assignments, provide supplemental support, monitor student progress and create modifications which fulfill IEP, GIEP, 504, etc. accommodations
• Contains a robust Digital Library where teachers can pull materials to bolster students’ understanding
• Observe like a student, but not as the student (i.e., over the shoulder)
• Mentors/mentor-guardians can set LMS alerts to support Student progress monitoring
• Three major types of reports that can be generated and customized for a teacher are as follows:

       1. Gradebook

• Course activity summary – This report summarizes grade information (e.g., scores, failing, passing), time spent, and other data based on course activity.
• Period and category summary - This report summarizes grade information (e.g., scores, failing, passing), time spent, and other data based on period and category.

       2. Student

• Student performance in the current course – Report performance for all students in the current course
• Student performance in all my courses – Report performance for students in all your courses
• Single student performance in the current course – Report performance for a chosen student in the current course
• Single student performance in all of my courses – Report performance for a chosen student in all of your courses

• Mastery by date range – Report course mastery data for a specified date range
• All mastery data – Report course mastery data for all dates
• Running Buzz Reports is designed to help you run customized class and student reports as a teacher for gradebook, performance, and mastery-level analytics
• These are the additional reports that can be run at an Admin-type level.
• User login and logout times – Report login and logout times for a single user
• User enrollment activity– Report time spent in all a single user's enrollments
• Domain user activity– Report login and logout times and time spent for domain users with activity
• Domain user inactivity – Report domain users without any activity
• The Client Administrator Resource is a job aid needing updates; however, it would be associated to those additional aspects. This document highlights the monitoring capabilities of the Client Administrator role in Buzz. This role provides read-only access, allowing you to proxy as users, run teacher activity reports, and view Empowered course sections used by your teachers