Southern Cross University has selected ReadSpeaker (http://www.readspeaker.com/) as our text to speech provider. The ReadSpeaker building block in our LMS (BlackBoard) provides text to speech functionality for all students accessing content in the LMS. This is regarded as an important tool for equity and access. We would like Talis to add ReadSpeaker text to speech technology to the LTI content. We are aware that other institutions also use ReadSpeaker and seek your support for this important function that enables equity.

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)

At present it is possible to add a note to an item at the point of bookmarking, but it isn't possible to edit or delete that note after the bookmark has been created. It would be useful to be able to do so.

We would like to be able to directly access reports and other authenticated data from scripts without the need to web-scrape through the login process protecting them.

It would be good if the existing APIs implemented an API-key style scheme, e.g. accepting a header "Authorization: api_key <customer-api-key>" with each request.

At the moment there is an option to request an email notification if any alternative resources are located for a specific item within the Dashboard.

One of our Academic Support Librarians suggested it would be useful if course organisers could opt-in to be notified via an email when the Dashboard feature picks up a new edition of any book on that list.

Sometimes when bookmarking the 'Format' field will be automatically included in the record. When it is not, there is no option from the drop-down to add it. This must be a simple thing to rectify, and is causing us to use workarounds when listing eBooks where the field is not present.

Would it be possible to utilise some of the TADC experience to make it possible to search for other/latest editions in both catalogue and suppliers sites not just the one listed.

Could we have Standards as a resource type?

If an invite has been accepted, say, 5 days ago, why do we still see the option to 'Resend invite'? Surely, there would be no need to resend an invite if one had already been accepted. Could the button be removed from invites that have been accepted, please?

It would be nice to add two new columns to the CSV output for the linked data API. These two new columns would contain information about the section the item is in and the parent section. This information would be enough to construct the section information from the CSV call and help to surface content in other systems (the VLE for example).

However extensive the resource type taxonomy becomes, there will always be fringe cases, exceptions and oddities. At present, the only options in such cases are to select the least worst match or the unfathomable 'Generic document'. An 'Other' category would be a more preferrable means to classify non-standard materials (and could be used for reporting/review to identify the types of material not being fully accounted for)

When we go to our tenancy of Aspire, there is no favicon, however it should be using our Brunel University one.

Adding this should either be included in implementation, or should be added to the branding console (though it's not the sort of thing you want to change often, more like the main institution logo).

Our Academic Liaison Team have requested that a new item type of 'Conference Paper' be added to the Item drop-down menu.

not sure if I missed something, one of our academics asked if it were possible to bookmark a network file
file://server/share/path/reallyUseful.doc

naturally it would only be visible inside the university, so a restricted access label would be required

I have suggested locating it on a web page or eLearning site, but he would like the option anyway

We'd like to be able to export place of publication as part of the All List Items report to avoid time-consuming cross-checking against the catalogue.

It looks like this information is gathered when bookmarking, but not included in the report export.

We've been asked this in relation to reporting on purchasing and availability of resources from non-UK, -Europe, or -North American publishers.

Please could we have 'Blog post' (and 'part of: Blog') as a 'Resource type'? Having to list blogs as 'webpages' isn't quite right.