Ares Ideas
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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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Allow sorting of tags in something other than alphabetical Several sites have requested this option but their examples are always Week 10 coming before Week 2 in the list. Are there other examples for needing to customize the order or is it only for the weeks?
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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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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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5 votes
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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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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
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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.
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Notes Field in the Course Record Create a notes field in the course record to be able to add content such as if the course is offered online, deferred course, particular notes in regards to cloning or faculty preferences. In our case because our staff work on full courses, it would be useful to add their initials to quickly see who worked on it last.
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Custom Paramaters for LTI integration to allow links to individual reserves items At UMass Amherst we have an LTI integration between Moodle and Ares. Our support group gets frequent requests from faculty is to be able to link directly from Moodle to particular items in their Ares courses. It would be considerably more user-friendly to display a link in the LMS in the context of a week’s assignments rather than to have a single link to Ares (so that instructors then have to direct students to go find a particular resource in the eReserves items list for the course).
According the the Moodle tool tips on the LTI setup page, it should…
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Add "merge" functionality Rightsholder Maintenance. Currently there is essentially no good way to maintain duplicate records in Rightsholder Maintenance. I want to be able to merge duplicate records so that I can eliminate duplicates that have occurred because of staff turnover throughout the years without losing the copyright history on the rightsholder.
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Allow instructors to search items across courses in web Students can search for items across all active courses. Instructors would like to search in this same way. Ideally it would show results for active courses and all courses (possibly below).
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Add Loan Period description field to all grids in the client It is missing from the Course record's items grid.
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5 votes
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Allow for more date parameters for reports Most sites would like reports by semester or year and not necessarily by month.
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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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Add support for html tags inside Ares email templates Currently not supported but shouldn't be too difficult to implement
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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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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.
4 votes
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