Leganto
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Colour-coded Student/Library/Instructor tags
Suggestion from our recent Leganto implementation survey:
There are icons to show the difference between student/library/instructor tags at the point they are added; it would be useful to library staff & Instructors to be able to see at a glance e.g. by colour-coding which tags are which after adding. (In a similar way that library staff can currently see some system-generated tags as a different colour from the user-added ones).5 votes -
“Select all citations” on list level, and not having to first select one citation for the toolbar to appear and then select all
The Select all item option should be placed right next to the search button (as indicated in the picture), and preferably not hidden under an action menu.
Already you can select all citations in sections in the Section menu, so it would only make sense to be able to do the same thing on a list level, for instance when you want to tag all citations in the list in one operation.
The preferred workflow would be one click to select all citations, and then having the toolbar appear, the same way it does when you select one citation.
5 votes -
allow public annotations by instructor to rollover
instructors use the "class discussion" tab to highlight and annotate certain important sections of a text, however when they reading list is rolled over to another term or course, all the annotations are lost. The instructor does not want to add them in every year.
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Option to exclude facets when searching the library
When adding a reference from the library search, you can filter based on "Type" and "Available here" facets in Leganto. This is great, but it would also be helpful if you could exclude facets as well, like you can in Primo. For instance, if you don't want Open Access records you should be able to exclude them. The "Type" facets are usually mutually exclusive (so isn't as relevant to exclude), but this is not true for the "Available here" facets. References can for instance be both "Open access" and "Peer reviewed" at the same time.
Our specific use case is…
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Zotero/Mendeley import: display position in list
In the results list of “Search the library”, the current position in the list is indicated, e.g. “Showing 20 out of 311,444 results”. In the results list of “Import references from Mendeley” and “Import references from Zotero, however, this information is not displayed. We would appreciate if the position would be indicated in these lists, too. Relevant Support Case: 07013368
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Embed outside tools in Leganto
Support embedding iframes in some areas of the Leganto UI so that additional relevant functionality from outside tools can be surfaced to end users.
For example the Cite them right embeddable search bar https://search.citethemrightonline.com/4 votes -
Option to Hide Watch button when a citation YouTube video is not available to play outside of YouTube
The new UI allows users to watch YouTube videos from the citation level so the user does not have to link out to another window. If the video owner does not allow the video to play outside of YouTube, users will receive an error (refer to attached screenshot). It would be nice if it were possible to have the option to hide the 'Watch' button for instances where the YouTube video will not play outside of YouTube.
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Last Leganto activity date on the user profile
That the user profile contains a last leganto activity date along side the last patron activity date. It is not given that users of leganto use the library in a way that would generate a patron activity.
With leganto the user profile has become important to elements not necessarily connected to library activities but the overall student activities. And especially in purging of users it is important to be able to see if leganto activity is present.4 votes -
Ability to customize which fields display to the public in Leganto forms
We would like to be able to customize which fields display to the public in the various forms in Leganto (similar to the configuration options for the various request forms in the GetIt Configuration in Alma for Primo).
For example, we do not require instructors to indicate start and end dates when configuring lists or submitting digitization and/or copyright clearance requests, so it would be ideal if we could hide those fields from instructors so they don't input anything (and also ensure that the system leaves those fields blank rather than automatically inputting a value).
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View online links
Edit the order of view online links in citations on reading lists
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Link to course
When attempting to link a reading list to a course in Leganto, the dropdown menu does not display the instructor names - only Instructor's Alma ID numbers. This creates a challenge, especially for courses with multiple instructors, as it's difficult to identify the correct course without visible names.
As a result, we often need to switch back to Alma to look up the instructor’s ID number in order to select the appropriate course. This adds unnecessary steps and reduces efficiency.
It would greatly improve usability if instructor names were displayed alongside instead of ID numbers in the dropdown menu. Thank…
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Allow institutions to configure the maximum number of citations on a list after which sections will be collapsed by default
It would be useful if we could configure the number of citations on a reading list over which the sections will be collapsed by default. The system setting is that any list over 100 items will be collapsed as default view, and we have the setsectionview parameter set to 'Yes' to allow default view to be manually overridden on a list by list basis, but we'd like there to be something in between that kicks in automatically, so shorter lists will still be expanded (which saves staff/students having to make extra clicks to view the full list) but…
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Make all table columns for Courses and Reading lists search results sortable in Alma
For tables in Alma: it would be relevant if all columns are sortable by default.
4 votes -
Different default section views
Following user testing, we set our sections as collapsed by default.
However, some lists have only one section, and when going into such lists it can look very odd to land on a single collapsed section. It would be a lovely little enhancement if you could set that Lists with >1 section have collapsed by default and lists with only one section are default expanded. (I'm aware that lists can have individual defaults set, but I don't think many users are aware of this despite training and documentation!)4 votes -
Request for Improvement in APA 7 Reference Export: Option to Exclude URLs
When using the APA 7 reference export function, the system includes source links (URLs) by default. We suggest adding a configuration option that allows users to exclude these links and export only the text of the bibliographic reference.
This functionality would significantly optimize the bibliographic management that instructors perform when recording references directly in their syllabi. Currently, due to institutional regulations requiring that references not include links, instructors must manually remove URLs one by one, creating an unnecessary workload.
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Leganto integration with LMS Canvas Ignite AI functionality
I find it essential to develop an integration between Leganto and the new Canvas Ignite LMS functionality to make it easier for students to find reading lists directly within Canvas
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Enable 'Add to Reading List' for Other Librarians' Lists within the Library
Currently, from a specific book record, it is not possible to use 'Add to reading list' to assign the book to a reading list created by another librarian, but only to reading lists created by me. Is it possible to open up the option to add books using 'Add to reading list' across all reading lists associated with a specific library? This would greatly support teamwork in our department, where all librarians collaborate on a project to add reading lists for courses.
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Usability of Favorites especially in LTI view - Suggest from right panel
Using the LTI view the left menu (Lists and Favorites) is invisible which confines the view to the context of the LMS site the user is in. I can see why we would want to do that. However, it has the effect of making it virtually impossible for educator or student to be able to use their favorites.
Scenario: Educator adds a citation to their list in the LTI view, then decides it is so good they want to add it to their other lists. They copy it to their favorites.... then what! (They could just copy to other lists,…
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Filter to mirror Primo VE Availability facet
When a user searches via Primo VE they have the option to filter using a facet title Availability, which contains values such as "Held By Library" and "Available Online"
We would like to suggest Leganto receives similar functionality using the filter option which currently lets a user narrow down based on Section, Tag, Type and Other.
This would allow uses to easily and quickly narrow the citations on a reading list to those available online, without the need for the library to tag each citation.
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Set location for physical reserves in request
It would be helpful within Leganto for instructors to determine at either the course or the citation level which pickup location they want their course materials to reside. For libraries with central processing groups that manage multiple physical locations, we cannot always rely on faculty to put a note in the request.
3 votes
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