Ares Ideas
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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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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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Add support for html tags inside Ares email templates
Currently not supported but shouldn't be too difficult to implement
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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"?1 vote -
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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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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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 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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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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.Net Core Support Update
Provide an Ares 5.x update to support the most recent version of .Net Core.
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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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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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Include Tracking and History Tables in Export of multiple items
I require the DateTime created and DateTime available for a set of a bunch of items. This is not a field in the standard reporting filter. and not exported data when exporting the filtered items.
Also frustrating to not be able to export all data within a item as a general solutions for any other fields other people might want that exist in the items but not in the parseable report fields.
recommended solution:
Include Tracking Table and History Table in Export of multiple items data.Thank you.
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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!
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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 -
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.
6 votes -
Keep history with rightsholder instead of the most recent entry only
We would like to see a history of the communications with the rightsholder. Right now, we can only upload one document, which makes it difficult in those situations where Publisher A says "we don't own it" and sends us to Publisher B. We can only upload the final email for Publisher B. The next time we ask permission for the item, the item still says Publisher A, but our records say Publisher B. We can add notes, but they are not searchable, and then we have to recreate the process all over again. Having the ability to upload multiple documents…
1 vote
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