Talis Aspire Reading Lists
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Adding a favicon
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).
2 voteswe’ll pick this up when we do some UI improvements.
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New 'Conference Paper' Resource Type
Our Academic Liaison Team have requested that a new item type of 'Conference Paper' be added to the Item drop-down menu.
2 votesThis is not currently in our near term development focus so it has been moved to the longer term backlog.
Ideas may be graduated from the backlog as we get through the ones that are planned.
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network file bookmark
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.docnaturally 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
2 votesWe will not be focusing on this now due to low votes in the 2012 ideas survey However, we think this is a valuable idea and is something we will wish to investigate in the future, so its on our longer term backlog
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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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Filter by no importance set in list view
In list view it's now possible to filter by importance (e.g. core text). Is it possible to include the option to filter by items with no importance set? That gives academics/librarians looking through a list a quick way to check if any items are missing an importance setting and need to be updated.
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Adding the identifier (MMS ID / LCN) to the 'All List Items' report
Rather than having to search for titles/ISBNs, it would be beneficial to us if an MMS ID /LCN search field was added to the all list items report. An example workflow where this would benefit us is if a record has been deleted from our catalogue, and needs to be updated with the replacement record e.g. now using a community zone record.
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section titles
It would be really useful for us to have the section title included in the All Items Report. I've managed to link the column 'Has Container' with the section URL found in Google Analytics, however a lot of the time, our academics want to know how students are interacting with each section when using LTI with Moodle. If the All Items Report included the section title it would be a lot easier to feed back to them on this.
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Allow us to edit the default subject line of "review is complete" message
Currently we have to use the automated "review is complete" email even when sending a review back to academics to ask that they add student numbers/importances before we can review it. We would like to be able to edit the subject line of this email ourselves to say something like "Requiring Action – additional information required for Resource List review" Otherwise, the academics just think their review has been completed, with no further action required.
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Include hierarchy in review interface
We would like the review interface to make searching for the hierarchy/module code possible.
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Prevent academics contacting individuals through "Review Completed" emails
When a review is completed, the review requester (in our case this is usually an academic) receives a "review completed" email. This email is sent to them from noreply@talisaspire.com - However, if the academic replies to this email it is sent to the individual who processed the review. Our team has a general email account for reading list queries and encourage academics to contact us in this way. Is there any way for the "noreply@talisaspire.com" email address to actually prevent people from replying to personal staff accounts?
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Scoping of list creator role to an individual list
I would like to suggest the scoping of the list creator role to an individual list only. Currently, the list creator role is a 'system-wide permission' which allows list creators to edit any lists.
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OpenURL should include Source ID for Talis
Every OpenURL created by Talis should include a source ID name/value pair so that
a) Our link resolver stats clearly indicate the volume of OpenURL requests from Talis
b) We can identify the source of the problem URL when our clients use the auto problem report form on our link resolver (which includes the problem OpenURLThis is standard across OpenURL sources. Might I suggest appending this string to every Talis OpenURL?:
&rft.sid=talis
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Add time period information within bookmark item
Add the time period information within a bookmark item, for example within 'This item appears on' section.
We get feedback from students claiming they are unable to access a particular reading. This is because they are accessing an archived/previous version of a reading list, and a digitisation has expired. This is possibly caused by academics directly linking to these specific bookmarked readings from within the VLE. From a student perspective, they will see their course code listed in the 'This item appears on' and not think anything further.
Adding the semester information would provide a cue for them that a…
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Improve options to link in LTI (open in new tab)
In the LTI for Moodle we only have access to the two options - in line display or open on seperate page. Can we please have open in new tab as well.
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Ability to turn off LTI search box defaults (course name)
LTI to Blackboard:. When setting up the content block the name used in the search box defaults to the name of the blackboard course. This often is not the name of the list in Talis and so no match is found. Turning off that default and prompt the user to complete the search field would be a better option from our point of view.
We have had several calls where it was not clear to the user that they needed to enter the list name in the search box mainly because the users don't realise they can over type the…
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Copying bookmarks
This suggestion relates to an extension of the facility to copy over bookmarks, as it would be usful to have the option to copy over the notes (associated with any bookmark), in addition to its importance level.
1 voteWe are reviewing copying options alongside our list edit changes and we will monitor this idea closely to understand if there is a use case for this functionality.
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QuickAddBookmark sequence prompts to Create/Create and add to list
QuickAddBookmark is good but would be great if, rather than just creating a bookmark, it prompts to Create/Create and add to list.
At the moment, staff need to remember to add the bookmark to their list after creating the bookmark. If they drag & drop, they may forget to Set Importance which messes with our acquisitions workflow.
With Create/Create and add to list buttons at the end of the sequence, it would be instinctive to choose the list, set the importance, add notes to student/library etc. as required.
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My Notes - To be able to identify which List the Item is from
When a student clicks on their profile and looks at 'My notes', the notes are displayed with a link to the item the note was placed on, however when clicking through to the item there is no indication as to what list or lists the item is on.
This almost defeats the purpose of a number of notes that a student may choose to place on an item if they are then unable to identify which list the item they placed that note on came from.
1 voteI agree that this could be confusing, especially if a student has used that feature in anger and made a lot of notes.
However, This is not currently in our near term development focus so it has been moved to the longer term backlog.
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Additional supported sites for embedded video
Youtube and Vimeo are currently supported in Talis to embed videos within the full metadata view of a bookmark.
We've recently subscribed to EduTV, which is an excellent database of videos and playlists, and would like to have the same embedding for this resource.
We also have a large collection of streamed media hosted in-house (both off-air and commercial material as is permitted under copyright provisions), and would like these to be similarly embedded within Talis.
This was originally submitted as a support ticket question but it's been suggested that I raise an idea instead.1 voteA simple integration in the vein of the YouTube & Vimeo integrations can be dealt with via support as a bookmarking recogniser request. A tighter integration to support authenticated content will require liaising with EduTv to understand the requirements and will need to be planned.
However, this is not currently in our near term development focus so it has been moved to the longer term backlog while we focus on items in the development focus.
Ideas may be graduated from the backlog as we get through the ones that are planned.
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Improvements to 'Create and Add to List'
Sometimes when you bookmark a resource, the 'Create and Add to List' function doesn't capture the resource you expect it to. This seems to be a particular problem where the same ISBN appears in more than one record, e.g. an e-book record that contains the ISBN of the print version - invariably, the print version is bookmarked even when the e-book version is displayed in Aspire ready to 'Create and Add to List'. It also happens in some reprinted monograph records where the ISBN of the original is included.
1 votewe’ll look at this as part of the bookmarking improvements
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