Ares Ideas
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prevent unintentional duplicates when cloning, or make it more obvious that cloning is in progress Cloning many items can take several minutes and as instructors wait, they sometimes think something must have gone wrong with the process, so will start the process again, resulting in many duplicate items. We had an extreme case of items being cloned five times for a course with close to 200 items, resulting in about 1,000 items.
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Allow Item table to be sorted by Tags in the web The primary interest is in having 'Tags' as an option in the 'sort by' drop down on Ares.
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Increase the length of the ItemBarcode field NYU would like to be able to encompass the barcodes for multiple volumes within the ItemBarcode field and the current character limit is preventing this. Increasing this limit would be greatly beneficial.
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Ares for MacOS Apple Users Many of us are using MacBook Apple computers, and it would be helpful if Ares could be installed on a macOS.
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Add support for html tags inside Ares email templates Currently not supported but shouldn't be too difficult to implement
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Make Visually Similar Characters Interchangeable in Searches It would be helpful if confusable characters, lookalikes, homoglyphs, and diacritics were treated as interchangeable when conducting searches. Currently, it seems that searches require the exact Unicode characters used in the item being searched for. This can be problematic because text copied from an original source may include a variant of a character that users might not recognize or know how to input when later searching for the same item. As a result, they may not be able to find the item they are looking for. For example, a user searching for "Cost-Effectiveness Thresholds" with a keyboard hyphen will not…
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Ares user creation date field and method of creation (course load, web service etc) There are currently fields in Ares that allows for information about when courses was created and how. There is no such field currently for user account creation but that would be nice to have in my opinion.
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Update ARES Api to get Reserve Item to include Instructor tags Ares Reserves API for get a specific course id list of reserve items there is not a field for "Instructor Tags"
However the Ares Soap client to get classes and reserve items does allow for retrieval of filed for "Instructor Tags".
I understand the Ares Soap client is older technology and is expected to be deprecated.
Can the Ares Api for a specific course get reserve items be updated to return the "Instructor Tags"?2 votes -
New addon suggestion We thought maybe an addon to search the library catalog (we use OMNI as OPAC and ALMA as our library management system at Brock) from within the Ares Client, and then an import button that would bring in the citation information and the call number and shelf location to the item record would be great! Ares doesn't have such functionality right now, but Ares has similar addons for some of its other products, so maybe this could be a good idea for Ares.
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Deep links and cloning to subsequent semesters We would like deep links to Ares content which are imbedded in Canvas modules outside of reserve (pages, syllabi, etc.), to continue to work in Canvas in subsequent semesters if the course/items are reactivated in Ares for subsequent semesters. Canvas administrators have said that faculty would love this feature so they don't need to recreate the deep links for the same course/items each semester.
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Allow Ares to store & display Preferred Name Allow Ares to store & display Preferred Name. This information could be received from Student Information System or added later in Ares system. Ares needs to be able to handle this field in the Client and DB and also be able to display the PName in the UI. This option should be backward compatible with existing data/DB.
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Add Instructor Tags to Bulk Edit Items I would like to be able to bulk edit instructor tags in an ares course record. The bulk edit items button has a lot of columns that you can edit at one time, but it doesn't include the instructor tags column. If possible could we add this column to the bulk edit items button?
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Allow automatic deletion of course and user records It would be great if Ares could be configured to automatically delete the records for old empty courses as well as the user records for students who are no longer taking classes.
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Ability to give subsets of students in the same course section access to different items in the reserves list. We have courses where students are assigned different readings (such as case studies) to work on in groups. We don't want to have to license a case study for all the students if only a subsection of the class needs to read a particular case.
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Make the Bulk Item Editor customizable for all Ares template fields I come across the issue of cloning items into a new semester but needing to change the dates of each item individually. It would save a heap ton of time to be able to bulk edit the items in the Instructor Tag field with the new dates. Unfortunately this is not a field that is included in the bulk item editor. Perhaps it can be added in the customization manager or included in the next update.
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Browser bookmarklet for adding web content to reserve lists. I have seen this functionality being used with other resource list creation software. Could something similar be developed to work with Ares?
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Support LTI Names and Role Provisioning Services to bring full class lists Once Ares uses the LTI Names and Role Provisioning Services and asks the LMS for the entire class list on first contact complete enrollment records will be available with only the LTI integration and remove the dependency on loading records.
https://www.imsglobal.org/specs/ltimemv1p0-intro
https://documentation.brightspace.com/EN/integrations/ipsis/LTI%20Advantage/lti_1.3_names_roles_extension.htm?Highlight=LTI#:~:text=The%20LTI%20Names%20and%20Role,in%20the%20tool%20via%20APIs.3 votes -
Allow adding/removing an instructor for a course using ICourseEdit.html Now that a course can have multiple instructors, it should be possible to make changes to instructors using the web interface.
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.Net Core Support Update Provide an Ares 5.x update to support the most recent version of .Net Core.
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Add file size to the grid It would be nice to have "file size" added to grids. Sometimes professors or staff provide PDFs that are extremely large. It would be nice to sort for these to be able to replace them with reduced size PDFs. This is helpful for students (to not have to download such huge files) and for database management. Thank you!
2 votes
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