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Book chapter read status/notes
We have had negative student feedback relating to book chapters which have come from the same original bookmark. Setting a Read Status changes for each mention of the book made from the same bookmark. Bookmarks need to be unique for separate notes to be added, so if the individual chapters have been added from the same initial bookmark, then the notes added for each will overwrite the previous. We would like the option for Read Status and notes to be recorded against a single bookmark instead of all instances of the bookmark.
6 votesUsing the ‘Has Part’ does create a new resource ID and they would behave as you suggest so that students can log notes on individual items. The current being able to add a ‘Has Part’ has been designed with this scenario in mind. It maybe this action itself that needs improvement to make it easier for Academics to flag chapter references. We will continue to monitor the idea and if there is significant support we will of course review.
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Make it easy to rearrange sections in a list, using the drag and drop within the Table of Contents.
Make it easy to rearrange whole sections in a list, using drag and drop within the Table of Contents. This functionality was in the last version.
It was much better than the options in the current version and has been requested by a user at my University5 votes -
Enable users to be given publishing roles for all list under a particular subject/department
Enable users to be given publishing roles for all list under a particular department or subject area. This would be really useful for administrative staff who assist with maintaining lists in their department. Users could have roles for each list in the English department, for example.
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Ability to bulk delete lists
Where there are a lot of lists to delete the ability to bulk delete them would save an enormous amount of time.
5 votesWe have introduced bulk actions into the reporting area of Talis Aspire, you can now bulk archive and bulk publish. You can find out more on these here: https://support.talis.com/hc/en-us/articles/360000292238-Bulk-list-actions
We are continuing to review other uses for the bulk actions.
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Retention of the 'cut' feature in the action menu after searching
When adding structure to sometimes lengthy lists migrated from our previous system, tutors use the search function to find the item they wish to move to one of their sections. However, the 'cut' feature is then absent from the action menu meaning they cannot 'move' the item to the right place in the list; only 'copy' it via 'My Bookmarks'. This either means the original item is still floating in the unstructured portion of the list and has to be found again to be deleted, or the tutor has to remember to open the action menu a second time with…
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Ability to turn off prompt to update metadata in all occurrences of a bookmark when this is formatted as a Chapter
Quite often a reading list will feature several instances of the same book, but with different chapters to be read in different weeks. Usually in this case the book is bookmarked once and this is then dragged and dropped into each part of the list, then each instance is edited to 'Has Part - Chapter' and the appropriate details filled in.
When saving this or making any future edits, we get the prompt 'You have added this bookmark in multiple places - in total it appears X times on X list(s)' ... Do you want the changes you have made…
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Enhance the LTI tools to grant access to lists
Extend the LTI integration so that an academic can click through from a module in their learning management system (Blackboard, Canvas, Moodle, etc) to Aspire and be granted appropriate access to the list in Aspire. This would be a much more effective way to grant academics List Publisher access to their lists than the clumsy email invitation system.
This functionality is available in other systems such as Echo360 Lecture Capture so it has the additional advantage of being familiar to academics who are already using this.
3 votesWe will investigate the capability of LTI but in the meantime devolved constraints can resolve this for you, link to article: https://support.talis.com/hc/en-us/articles/205857561-A-devolved-constraints-mini-guide
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Expand results list in Hierarchy and Student numbers box
It would be great if you got more than 5 results when searching for a hierarchy node within the Hierarchy and Student Numbers box. We have thousands of nodes, many with similar names, and it's often hard to find the one you want when it only displays 5 results at a time.
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When searching for list owners to assign, show their email as well as name
When using "Edit -- Assign List Owner" to change the owner of a list (because the module leader has changed) we have problems in instances where we have more than one lecturer with the same name. Eg how do we know whether we're assigning to the right John Smith? If the staff member's email as well as their name was displayed, we'd be able to distinguish between identically-named list owners.
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Option to create a new blank list on the module screen
When you create a new module you see the screen where you can link an existing list. It would be very handy at this point to have a button that says 'create a new list' that contains a hotlink to the new list page.
(At present I have 'Create a new list' saved as a frequently used bookmark but this would be useful if using a different computer)2 votesWe are making changes to how you create a list as part of the list edit work and will consider this as part of that conversation with our UX and Development teams.
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Add built-in accessibility checker to Aspire
We would like to see a feature built into Talis Aspire that would enable the system to run an accessibility check on items as they were being added to a reading list to determine whether the destination platform (e.g. an eBook site or journals database) is compliant with Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. If that were possible, we could train our list creators to choose accessible resources for their lists. Also, the existence of a tool like this would put some pressure on those resource providers whose platforms are not very accessible to make improvements, or else find their resources making…
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Abolish the Publish button!
What earthly use is the Publish button? It is hugely frustrating (not to say time-consuming) to continually have to search and click this Publish button to see your changes. Combine this with a user-driven option to control rollback to permit restore an earlier iteration from a complete history of changes.
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