Ares Ideas
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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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Users are created with stub accounts if not in UserValidation if the user can login via LDAP or RemoteAuth
When a user logs in via LDAP or RemoteAuth the first time, their account is created with their Username copied in the LibraryID field. They are shown the NewAuthRegistration.html page, but if the site is using CourseUser loads and the username is not in the UserValidation table yet, the user is stuck with a stub account if the site is passing through the uservalidation data as hidden in the registration page. Later, a user cannot come in via LTI (because their ExternalUserID is blank) and cannot come in via the webpages (they are still sent to the registration page, but…
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View copyright fees paid per course
Would like to do a custom search for a course or list of courses and have the "Current Course Copyright" value show in the grid.
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7 votes
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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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Prevent the Switch to Student Mode and Switch to Instructor links from appearing when not applicable
Instructors and proxies should not see the Switch to Student Mode link on pages that students are eligible to view (eg IRF, Shared Lists, Course Usage, Course Edit, etc).
When a user is set as a general instructor, but not a course instructor for a particular course (ie only a student), the user should not see the option for Switch to Instructor Mode within that course. The link does not do anything and is confusing.
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Add a Copyright "Fair Use" check box to Ares web forms and functionality
Add in a check box to Ares web forms so that requests (instructors/faculty) can indicate they are using an eReserve item under fair use. Possibly route items that are not a fair use to a queue for mediation. I hear Leganto has something like this.
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Ability to add additional information during LTI LMS course creation
Particularly course department - when creating course and selecting semester dropdown, also offer other dropdown options. Please give us use cases!
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Accessibility for the client
Would like ability to tab through options in staff client and customization manager and possibly accommodate a screen reader.
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Allow instructors to place OpenURL requests without a course
At the Access Services Conference in 2017, several sites mentioned they would like Instructors to be able to place OpenURL requests without first having to have a course to attach them to. Maybe having a dummy course (similar to how there is a ValidationUser as a dummy instructor) for these items to live under until a course can later be created. It would be appropriate in this case for the Instructor to be attached somehow to the item so that the item could later be attached to a course under that instructor.
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Allow instructors to batch change/remove tags on the web.
Allow instructors to batch change/remove tags on the web. Right now instructors can batch add (4.7 release) but not batch edit or remove.
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Print Course Reading Lists
It would be really helpful for a number of professors to be able to print a course reading list. The Export Course Info option produces a (not very well formatted) excel file that has a lot of extra system information that professors don't need. It would be nice for Ares to produce a Word doc (or something similar) that professors could download that lists just the course information (title, code, section, semester etc.) and the readings associated with it.
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Using virtual flags with courses
Being able to add a virtual flag to an item is really helpful. There are times when I wish I could flag a course as well. For example, sometimes work on a course starts before the actual course instructor is hired and we need to make sure to go back and replace a staff or generic username with the instructor once we have their information. Also, when courses are cloned ahead of time before the new schedule of classes is published, we sometimes have to change the course code (section numbers) so that our script adds students to the course…
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Upgrade cross listings to allow Ares to combine cross-listed courses and sections
Currently, when two course pages are generated by imported course and user data, instructors sometimes must add materials separately for each section. For example, for PHIL/RELI101, some students sign up for PHIL101 and others for RELI101. When this happens, the data generate PHIL101 as one course and RELI101 as a separate course, which means that the instructor must upload the materials for one listing and then for another. There is a similar issue with classes with multiple sections. It would be very convenient if the cross listing feature would set things up so that any action done in one connected…
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Show item usage count from custom search
Make it a part of the custom search but not in every grid result in the client.
Sites seem to want this for reporting purposes versus processing.
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allow instructors and staff to decide if tags are cloned with items
This would affect the web interface and the staff client.
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prevent instructor from making items available for dates outside the semester dates
The student won't be able to see the item and the staff client forces staff to "correct" the dates anyways.
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5 votes
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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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Allow the Instructor Item Tags column to show in the CloneItems table
The Item table tag allows for the Tags column to show, but the list of items in the ICourseClone.html page is in the ClonedItems table tag and that one doesn't allow you to add the Tags column. (resource: https://prometheus.atlas-sys.com/display/Ares/Ares+TABLE+Tag)
It would be nice to be able to include the Tags column there so instructors would see if they want to clone the tags or not, and can check/uncheck items based on what they have them tagged with.
5 votes
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