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Increase the size of student note

It is small and can get missed.
Katy Maydon 23 days ago in Edit List 1 Future consideration

More General Customisation

For example: bold text, background colours, different coloured sections, etc. This would allow easier browsing for users and make it better to distinguish between sections.
Katy Maydon 23 days ago in Branding 1 Will not implement

Easily clear/remove items from My reading intentions & My notes

We recently had a feedback ticket raised by a student asking how to clear the "Will Read" section of the "My reading intentions" tab in their profile (See screenshot). After exploring the functionality of this part of Talis (as the students experi...
Kia Owens over 1 year ago in User Profiles 0 Reviewed - on hold

Ebook cover images

We find the book cover images useful for new users in making the lists more attractive to the eye. These work fine when we are including physical books on the list, but as we are increasingly moving to an e-first policy the ISBN no longer has a co...
Ian Haydock over 1 year ago in Edit List 3 Reviewed - on hold

Stop going back to the start of the list when a bookmark is edited

As I have to often edit bookmarks on very long lists, it would be useful if once a bookmark was edited and saved, the page would return to the point in the list where the bookmark is, rather than sending me back up to the top of the list. This get...
Guest 3 months ago in Edit List 6 Future consideration

Change the appearance of the bookmarking screen.

We are finding the new appearance of the bookmarking screen to be very problematic. The item being added/edited no longer previews. This was very useful for librarians when editing the metadata. Bring back the preview. The metadata fields section ...
Sarah @ AUT 7 months ago in Bookmarking 6 Planned

Add functionality for list mediation

This fall term, we piloted a mediated list creation option by giving instructors a Google form to request this and provide us with their syllabus. We then created the list on behalf of the instructor. The mediated list creation option had to be ru...
Guest 4 months ago in Reviews 1 Future consideration

Warning message for deleting items with active/pending digitisation request

Recently an academic deleted a number of reading list items with digitisations attached, but there was no warning for them (beyond the standard item deletion message), and no indication to us that this had happened until we were checking the link ...
Chantal Tucker about 1 year ago in  TADC 3 Reviewed - on hold

Separate 'Report Broken link' button for online resources

The 'Report broken link' option for students is buried in the item menu, and is often hard for them to find. One of the ways we promote TA to academics is the ability for us to fix links without their intervention, but this requires them to educat...
Chantal Tucker about 1 year ago in Accessibility 2 Reviewed - on hold

Reporting on list deletions

Currently, it isn't possible either in Aspire itself or in Advanced MIS to report on anything to do with deletion of reading lists. This can cause us problems in certain circumstances, e.g. if our academic colleagues report that a list has gone mi...
Guest over 1 year ago in Reports 0 Reviewed - on hold