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Auto publish option for instructor rollover
The new autopublishon_create functionality works when an instructor creates a new list from scratch in Leganto, but when they rollover it doesn't take effect.
This is counter-intuitive for us, since instructor rollover is precisely the situation where the library has previously seen the list so doesn't need to review it again.
Can instructor rollover be included in the scope of the autopublishon_create functionality?
Or even better, instead of a binary true/false setting, it could take a list of different situations so libraries can choose when they want auto-publish to take effect: eg new lists, instructor rollover,…
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Add information on reading list creation to Alma Analytics
We would like to have more information about how a reading list was created in order to trouble-shoot issues. Could you please add fields to Analytics on whether the list was created via rollover, via the Duplicate option or by New List button, and whether in Leganto or Alma.
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Suggest Replacement feature - display availability and request options for instructor
There should be an easy way for an instructor to place a hold request (for physical – if allowed by the institution) or access full-text (for ebooks) on the suggested replacement for a citation. Currently, when there is a replacement suggestion, the instructor can only see the title metadata and approve or decline the suggestion. There’s no easy way for the instructor to get access to the suggested item. This is important when the instructor hasn’t yet seen the new edition and needs to review the content before finalising their reading list.
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When creating a new list, provide sort options for numbered templates
Some instructors want to create lists that show the most recent content first, so that their students can easily access the current week’s resources. For example, in a 12-week semester, they divide the list into sections by week and list them in reverse order (i.e. Week 12, Week 11, Week 10, etc.). They release each section at the start of the corresponding week, so that students can focus on the relevant content.
However, currently there is no easy way to create such a list using a numbered template. The default order for the numbered template is ascending (i.e. Week 1,…
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In Analytics (Leganto Student Usage subject area), possibility to query Statistical Category X fields under Student Details
(initially filled by the « Statistical Category X » fields from the Users subject area).
Right now, to get data about the usage of a reading list by students, we need to query the fields which are only available under the dimension « Student details » of the « Leganto student usage » subject area. Those fields are filled only after signing the Ex-Libris form « Leganto student success measurements service ».
It would be interesting that the statistical category fields only could be filled in order to extract statistical analyses without having to know the students identity. Therefore it…5 votes -
More granular configuration of citation export options
In Config > Leganto > UI > List menu we can configure which options display for users eg whether to give them the option to Export.
But "Export" has a lot of sub-options and we don't want to confuse lecturers/students with most of them. We'd like somewhere we can configure which of these we want/don't want to offer (eg so we could promote the "to Word" and "to Endnote" options but hide the "to PDF" and "to Excel" options).
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Stop adding reading lists automatically when looking at them
At the moment, when students look at a reading list in an LMS it's automatically added to their "My Lists" area in Leganto.
According to Ex Libris this is by design but they are open to change this depending on how popular this idea turns out to be.
(see Case 973700)We don't think that just a short glance at a syllabus justifies a list being added - most likey unbeknownst to the students themselves.
And if they want to add a list, it's only one click on the Add button.We don't want the feature to be abolished, but…
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Cite it support for Legislation.gov.uk
It would be very helpful to have Legislation.gov.uk as a supported site for Cite it.
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Show students why download isn't available
This is relevant when students can see the citation before the download is made available to them.
In this case there are many reasons why the full-text mightn't be available. It might be waiting for copyright clearance. Or the lecturer might have added visibility dates. At the moment all the student can see is that there's no download, so they may complain to the instructor or the library when they actually just need to be patient.
So while the Download link is suppressed, it would be useful to display a brief explanation. Eg "Restricted until [date]" if a date is…
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Add fields "Date Sent For Library Review Month" / "Date Sent For Library Review Month Key" to the RL dimension in SA Course Reserves
One of our libraries uses additional conditions in Analytics based on "Date Sent For Library Review" in SA Course Reserves. This to be able to change background color depending on when the reading list was sent to the library. It helps them more easily prioritize the follow-up work on the lists.
There is no Month column/field in Reading List dimension table that can be used with Date Sent For Library Review. The only Month and Month Key fields available in Course Reserves subject area are for citations and courses (in Reading List Citation Create Date, Current Course Start Date and…
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Enable OCRed PDF documents search in all languages
when using OCRed PDF document in non English language i.e Hebrew, word search for active learning doesn't work.
enabling the search will help instructors and students to achieve better learning.4 votes -
Duplicating lists - make it clearer that the duplicated list is the copy
When you duplicate a reading list, '(1)' is added to the end of the title. This is easy to overlook, and academic staff often make multiple copies because they are not sure it has worked.
We would like the duplicated list to say "Copy of" at the beginning of the title instead. This would replicate the behaviour when a section is copied and would more clearly differentiate the two lists.
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Clearer display of link source
We had a citation with two links, both broken. One showed the name of the collection it was in so easy to fix. The other one just showed "online.wiley.com" and I spent at least an hour trying to figure out what collection that was only to discover by accident that actually it was referring to the "Source URL" in the citation's own record.
The display of links in Leganto should clearly tell administrators where the URLs are coming from to facilitate troubleshooting.
Broken link alerts in the Alma tasklist should likewise clearly name (or ideally link to!) the collection or…
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Managing data on rightsholders
If customers could maintain records of the rightsholders that they interact with (publishers, etc), then they could use the same kinds of Leganto-based processes for managing copyright permissions for those vendors that they do now when interacting with CCC. This would prevent many customers from needing to maintain an external database for copyright clearance activity that doesn't relate to the CCC.
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Purchase request letter - Regarding your Purchase Request
Is is possible to make the Letter - Regarding your Purchase Request (the reply letter that is generate from a purchase request made via Leganto to the customer) to be more customisable or at least to contain the basic bibliographic details of year and edition?
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Colour coding importance tags
Importance tags are an important way of indicating to students what their reading expectations are. We are encouraging list creators to reduce the number of sections in their lists and combine essential and background readings into single sections, using the importance tag. The tags are the same colour regardless of the criteria.
We would like to suggest a means of colour-coding tags so it is visually clearer to the student what the importance of a reading is, e.g., an essential reading could be customised with a green importance tag; a background could be customised with an orange importance tag. Each…
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Push citation due dates to student To Do list
In the LMS, students use the To Do list to keep track of course deadlines. Instructors would like the due dates entered in their reading lists to be included there, but currently citations have to be added to an assignment to make that happen. An assignment is not always needed or wanted, so functionality would be improved for the instructor if due dates for citations were automatically pushed to the To Do list in the LMS. Students would benefit from having all due dates in the same place.
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Ability to configure order of course terms
When applying multiple course terms to a course, we would like to arrange them in a logical order that makes sense to Instructors ie the main teaching period first, followed by other teaching periods. However, currently course terms automatically order alphabetically by the description. Could we have the ability to configure the order in which we would like our course terms to display? Thanks.
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Automatic hold request when adding physical item
We need requests to be placed on items that have been added to a reading list in Leganto. Otherwise students see that the item is available in the stacks and may go pick it up before our staff can OR be confused at the location since course reserves are always behind our front desk.
There's also no alert in Alma stating that the item has been added to a reading list and to double check.
In our current workflow, we do not employ the manually-set "move request" on items we pull from the stacks because it's extra clicks. This should…
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Customize and/or hide out-of-the-box publishing statuses
The publishing statuses are many and confusing.
An institution rarely uses more than two. We would like to be able to:
- hide the irrelevant statuses, to avoid them being selected by librarian and instructors
- customize the names of the statuses to make them clearer.Use case: one of our institutions decided on a specific status for all faculties/departments, with the exception of one department that wants lists to be more restricted. The publishing status for this specific department could be customized with the department name.
4 votes
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