Ares Ideas
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Allow instructors to submit multiple requests at once
How would sites like this to work? Would the instructor need to create an Excel file? Or would they paste a series of citations and staff would have to interpret them?
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Would like to organize items in folders versus tags on the web
Sites who used to use Docutek miss the option of organizing items in folders. Tags don't seem to be as desirable.
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Allow for sorting by Article Title instead of Journal Title in the web
Currently, Article Title is appended to the Journal Title field for displaying in the web, making it impossible to sort on instead of Journal Title.
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Show which staff member added a user note
Have an "added by" field for user notes like there is for item notes.
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Option to rename and hide queue names for routing in staff client
Perhaps, an enhancement is what we need to remove:
Route to Acquisitions
Recall Item
Awaiting Acquisitions Notification
Awaiting File Type Resolution
Awaiting Recall Processing
Awaiting ILL Processing – unless it can be edited to show as “In ILL Processing”4 votes -
4 votes
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Enhance course cross-listing to include more course info and ExternalCourseIDs
Currently, course cross listing only shows a name and is accessible by students searching for that cross listed course number/name and finding it under the other name. It's not clear to the student that both courses are the same.
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4 votes
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Allow LTI to create course in Ares if a student clicks on it first
LTI will create the course if an instructor clicks on the link but if a student clicks on the link it says "course not available - contact your instructor"
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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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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 -
Ares client hosted
To save time and energy and to have seamless client upgrades/fixes, the staff client should be cloud-based for hosted servers. Too much time is wasted upgrading every client workstation and making sure related software is also up to date.
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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.
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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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Clone Items to Courses by Course ID Without Searching
Before the 5.0 upgrade, we used to be able to clone items by typing in the Course ID to the Clone menu. Now we have to use a search function, whether for a single course or multiple at once. It would be great to be able to clone items by manually entering the Course ID(s) without having to use the search function. We almost always have the Course IDs that we need to clone to on hand.
Searching by Course Name or Course Number can bring up hundreds of results if there have been many sections of said course offered…3 votes -
Flag duplicate items
Add functionality that would flag items that appear to be duplicates to avoid scanning the same material multiple times.
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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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Bulk edit Proxy field for items and search on location
Ares bulk edit feature for item records is nice, but it does not include all the fields on the item record. We have a relatively common scenario in which we have moved a subscription database from IP Proxy to SSO for remote access. In this case, it would be nice to select items based on the URL used in Location, and then do a bulk update of the Proxy field. It would be even better if we could also do a Find/Replace in the URL in cases where the URL format changes.
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Option to remove active "semesters" (like permanent reserves) from the Choose a Semester option from the LTI course creation page.
All active and upcoming semesters are available for instructors to choose, including internal "semesters" like permanent reserves. In other cases we might need to create a semester that's pretty far out into the future, but we don't want to give instructors the choice to use it until a later date. It would be beneficial to be able to choose which semesters display as options when instructors are creating their courses via LTI.
3 votes
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