Ares Ideas
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Enable 'Course Not Configured' message to be editable
Reference Atlas Systems ticket 36722
Currently, a message displays to users when reserves is not configured for a particular course (using Canvas integration, and possibly other LMS integrations). The message reads "This course has not yet been configured for Ares access. Please contact your instructor or system administrator about configuring this course for use with Ares." We would like this message to be editable/customizable. Per the ticket referenced above, this is not possible with the current Ares configuration.
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Allow permalinks to course pages
Currently, you can make permalinks to individual items but not the actual course pages. It would be helpful if you could link to the course pages as well.
3 votes -
1 vote
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SAML configuration in Ares
Implement SAML in Ares like ILLiad 9.2 SAML features.
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1 vote
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Deep Linking in LMS (i.e. Brightpace)
Continue to process items in the Ares client, however the link would appear in the LMS, specifically in Brightspace under the weekly modules. Faculty would essentially have their notes, links, and readings under one specified module.
Users would not have to use the drop down link in Brightspace to access readings outside the LMS.
4 votes -
chromium
Update the Google Scholar addon so that instead of using IE it uses chromium scripting. This would also have to happen in the client. IE is being completely decommissioned in June 2022
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Include submission date in Items table
It would be nice to include the submission date as a field in the Items table. Currently, this is only a field in the History table and cannot be displayed in the results table when you run a search
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Integrate with social annotation tools such as Perusall or Hypothesis
Add the ability to use social annotation tools on reserve documents uploaded through Ares similar to how Canvas allows annotation tools on uploaded files in a course.
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Allow public search of books that are available at loans desk/reserve room
It would be nice if Ares created a public list of books available in a reserve room (or at the loans desk) that students could search or consult without having to log into Ares. Here's an example (click on the "Browse" button): https://hws.ares.atlas-sys.com/areslms/glogon.html
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Add ability to increase font size in the client
The font size in the client is very small and difficult for people who have visual impairment. But there doesn't seem to be a way to customize the font size in client options.
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Email templates: show instructor names as First Last (or separate first & last names entirely) rather than Last,First
Starting in Ares 5.0, item-type email templates no longer draw from the User tags, and we must use either Course.Instructor or Course.InstructorDisplayName to insert an instructor's name in the email template. However, the default display for these fields is Last, First, so our emails now read "Dear Smith, Susan," rather than "Dear Prof. Smith" or "Dear Susan Smith" or "Dear Susan." Both Course.Instructor and Course.InstructorDisplayName show the same thing; if we change the display name in the course, both fields change. We'd like to be able to pull the instructor's name(s) into Item-type email templates as First Last (or separate…
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Termination Date
Some of our streaming resources have license dates that have to be tracked. we need to be able to track this information to make decisions about whether to renew licenses or not. Please add a date "license ends" date field for these scenarios.
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Automatic routing and notification addon
Have an automatic routing and notification addon similar to the ILLiad addon: https://atlas-sys.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/ILLiadAddons/pages/304283649/ILLiad+Automatic+Routing+and+Notification+Addon.
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Allow requests to be sent back and forth between Ares and ILLiad
If a professor wants an item in Ares, but they have to get it through ILL, allow the requests to be sent to ILLiad and then back to Ares once the item has been received by the ILL department. Ideally, this process would work similar to the Aeon and ILLiad integration through the Web Platform.
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Allow editing displayed Instructor for a course via webpages icourseedit.html
We need a way to allow instructors/proxies to edit the displayed instructor name themselves. Right now it can only be done via the client in the Instructor Name Override field.
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Have a mechanism for handling LMS course merges, particularly when combined with course and user loads
This issue seems to affect every site that uses an LMS, but it becomes particularly problematic when users are also allowed direct access to the Ares web and when course and user loads are being used. This example was written out for Kent State to explain the problem they're facing when courses are merged in Canvas.
Scenario:
John is an instructor and is teaching Course 101. This course has two sections, A and B. Jack and Jill are students. Jack is enrolled in section A. Jill is enrolled in section B. This information is provided to Canvas through a data…
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Save Customized Grids
I would like this Aeon feature added to the Ares.
I am try to Save the grid customization I have created:"Staff users with layout customization permissions can also save grid customizations as .xml files that can be shared with other users and uploaded onto their client forms."
I want to be able to upload the file to use as my grid in every instance I needed. I want the same grid in each queue and for all my search results. We have 10 queues (or more as we add) and I have to “customize” them from scratch.
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Ares Controlled Digital Lending function is needed
Can Ares allow one person view the file at a certain time, put other users to a waitlist queue? similar concept like an ebook platform.
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Additional ItemInfo fields
We would like to have 5 additional ItemInfo fields added to the items table, 2 of which would be date formats for license data of streamed content. So we would have license StartDate and license EndDate for these items
3 votes
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