EDUCATORS: enrich online learning via custom combos of lesson-, project- & challenge-based learning.
Select lessons & project templates from the BizzyB Library or author your own. Create class or club groups, create a challenge competition and include mentors. Anyone over 13 years old is invited to use BizzyB.
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1. Click "Join FREE!"
2. Activate Via Email
Find the BizzyB welcome message and click the “Activate” button.
3. Login at BizzyB
Once you’re an education member, choose a place to start.
Create a Group
Groups are classes, clubs and other sets of users. Create a group via the Groups Dashboard “+Add” button accessed through the “Features” top bar tab and “Groups” dropdown.
Invite Members to Group
Invite students, mentors, parents and others to join a group via any Group Dashboard “Invite” button accessed through the “Features” top bar tab and “Groups” dropdown.
Pay for Student Upgrades
Premium memberships for the full-featured Project Journaling System can be paid for by anyone. Click your top bar avatar image and select “Subscriptions” from the dropdown.
Author Curriculum
Create Lessons (content mastery, exercises & quizzes) or Project Templates (instructions, tips & examples) via the “Features” top bar tab and “Curriculum” dropdown.
How BizzyB Works
BizzyB is a project invention system that empowers collaboration among team members and mentors.
Groups
Create school, class, club, home school, camp or other groups.
Group-Paid Members
Calendar Events
Messaging
Lessons
Participants learn core knowledge like STEM and hands-on skills.
Content & Quizzes
Exercises
Badges
Projects
Teams invent with BizzyB’s Fab Five™ Journaling.
Templates Library
Teams & Mentors
Presentation Tools
Contests
Teams enter BizzyB projects in problem-solving challenges.
Awards & Prizes
Online Showcase
Leaderboard & Impacts
The Invention Space
BizzyB® Print Version
Want a preview of BizzyB PBL methodology? Checkout this free print version of the BizzyB® Fab Five™ Concept Canvas. Use the Fab Five as a starting point for in-class projects, hackathons and other challenge events. You can also use this version to empower users who don’t have adequate access to computing devices or bandwidth. Includes instructions, topic definitions and canvases for Fab Five sub-topic exploration.
BizzyB® Digital Version
Learning Lessons & Micro-Badges
BizzyB offers a library of STEM, innovation, entrepreneurship and other knowledge mastery lessons. Teachers and project template authors can create custom syllabi or author their own lessons for publication in the Library.
Lessons include mastery content, quizzes, step-by-step exercises, exercise reflections and exercise evidence uploads. Lesson authors set micro-badging requirements and review uploads for badge approval.
Awarded micro-badges appear in students’ personal portfolios.
Fab Five™ Project Journal
BizzyB also offers a project-based collaborative online learning system where students and mentors can collaborate together on project journals to create and align the Fab Five™ Essential Themes of Innovation.
A library of project templates offers customized journaling instructions, tips and examples. Anyone, including students, can create custom templates for publication in the Library.
BizzyB® Fab Five™ Journaling features embedded design-thinking methodology, a live mentoring system, instant team messaging, pitch deck builder and more.
Multiple Dashboards
Access groups, contests, curriculum authoring, and parent dashboards by clicking the top bar “Features” tab.
Helpful Hints
Click on any “?” icon to view instructions, tips, explanations, examples and inspiring quotes.
Leadership Roles
Click the “Team” tab in your project’s navigation bar to invite and manage Fab Five topic leaders.
Completion Status
Topic leaders can click the Flag icon in their respective journal topics to define topic completion status.
Reports
Click “Reports” in project navigation to visit Presentation Deck, Business Plan, Team Public Page & Surveys.
Insight Assessments
Activated checkout systems include self-assessment surveys to measure soft skills and aspirations.
Essential Innovation Topics
BizzyB’s collaborative journaling process includes the Fab Five™ essential themes of innovation.
Invite Team & Mentors
Project owners can click the “Team” tab in the project’s navigation bar to invite team members and mentors.
Feedback Surveys
Topic leaders can click on the yellow bar at the bottom of any topic to send feedback survey questions.
Notifications & Messaging
Visit the top bar Bell icon for notifications and the Talk Bubble icon for instant messaging.
Calendar & Deadlines
Visit the top bar Calendar icon to view aggregated meetings and due dates created by group managers.
Digital Portfolio
Visit the top bar “Portfolio” tab to view portfolio, assessments and request recommendations.
Lessons
Click on “Lessons” in project navigation to access learning lessons. Set syllabi or provide lessons as a resource.
Comment Channels
Click the message bubble in any journal section to comment with team members and mentors.
Idea Credits
Topic leaders can click “Idea Credits” in any topic to recognize ideas contributed by team members.
Set & Track Goals
Click “Goals” in journal navigation to see Set Goals bars. Click “Progress” in project navigation to log results.
Checkout System
Group managers can activate a checkout system for journal topics and project completion exit surveys.
Settings & Privacy
Project owners can visit “Settings” to update project descriptions, group association and privacy options.
More Fabulous Free Features
Contest Management
All users can create and manage contests such as classroom challenges, hackathons, science fairs and business plan competitions.
Curriculum Authoring
All users can create lessons and project templates. Authors can limit curriculum use to specific groups.
Team Member View
Any user can use participant project features. Create your own projects via the “Features” top bar tab and “Projects” dropdown.
FAQs
Frequently Asked Questions
What age is BizzyB for?
BizzyB is designed for students ages 13 and up. At some point in the near future, provisions will be put in place to allow for safe use by children under 13. For now, please do not allow students under 13 years of age to use BizzyB.
What parental controls exist at BizzyB?
Students and their respective parents connect accounts at BizzyB so that parents have viewing rights over their children’s content. Parents also have control to hide their respective children from public view.
What’s free and what’s pay?
Free accounts include a personal digital portfolio and access to experience and abridged version of BizzyB’s Fab Five™ innovation journaling. Upgrade to Premium for full journaling features. All other features are free including groups, contests, mentoring, authoring, personal portfolio & assessments.
Do you offer bulk discounts?
Yes. Annual subscription discounts are available for individual users. Additionally, bulk subscription discounts are available for orders of at least 500 user month purchases.
Can I downgrade my account to free?
Yes. Students may downgrade accounts at anytime to end monthly payments. Following downgrade, the current monthly term will continue until the end of the monthly term.
What happens if I downgrade my account?
Downgraded accounts revert to free mode where user retains access to digital portfolio and soft skill assessment reports. Lessons and projects in process will be frozen but may be re-activated upon renewal of subscription.
FREE Membership
Free accounts include abridged Fab Five™, digital portfolio & assessments. Educators, Mentors, Judges & Parents are all free.
Premium Membership
Includes Free Member features plus project template journaling, reports, feedback surveys & mentor commenting. See Plans
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