Updates on the announcement feature

Posted by CS on behalf of UNSW staff "I must state that the new notification could be better designed. Showing a long list of announcements to students without paging or the option to break them from…

Announcement title in e-mails

Hi team! E-mail announcements are a very important part of course facilitating, especially when you're trying to let your students know about important deadlines,…

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Break out text box with coloured border

Hi, I would like a 'break out box' to be part of the text widget in the same 'format' drop down menu as an additional 'special' option (along with spoiler, container etc).…

Quiz submission dates

It would be useful for the instructor to know when a Quiz has been completed as part of an assessable exercise. The students can view their submission time, but at present,…

Custom Email

Kindly provide features to customize content of all email templates (and create new templates as needed). Most of our learners are not responsive to emails sent out from OpenLearning since the…

Reporting Features -List of Courses (Category wise) - Active / Faculty Allocated Name

Can we get some basic reports related to courses and its allocation such as a List of Courses with role wise allocations associated with the course. For instance, Course Name : ABC Course Creator:…

Date of Creation for Courses

A Column to highlight date of Creation for courses may be helpful to identify new / old courses.

Search Option for Courses

A Search bar on top of courses list may help in quick search and navigation.

A new feature of Sorting of courses

Can we get a feature for sorting of courses Different columns like Name of Course (A-Z) , Date of Creation (Newest to Oldest), Status of Course (Active / Offline).…

Due Date reminder for students

Good Day. May i suggest that open learning create a reminder for students on their due dates. At the moment the course creator can insert due date on their modules.…

Add a reporting capability to enable tracking of unmarked assessments

I have received feedback from our teaching arm regarding the desire for some ‘reporting/notification’ functionality associated with submitted assessments.…

Add Watermark feature on Course content (Quiz creation)

To prevent unauthorized use or outside sharing of our internal quizzes and questions (under module), it is suggested that content development include a watermarking option.

Add widget to enable hyperlinks within text page from table of contents

Inside single text widget that has both a table of contents as well as all of the detailed paragraphs underneath, please add function to hyperlink by section/paragraph number back against each table…

Content Editor - Drop Down Filter - Default sort ascending order list of modules

When browsing templates using the Content Editor - please hard code the drop down "Filter" list of existing template names to be in ascending order It can be accessed as shown in screen shot

Select multiple notification as read/unread

"Suggest notification have feature to set read or unread anytime without having to open the notification. Similar to email feature. This will be helpful to keep track of and monitor notification.…

Hiding tags

I would like to suggest that tags can be hidden from learners so as not to confuse them or raise questions if they are not used to or familiar with them. Thanks, Arianne

Arrange Courses in categories

Hi There, My organization is creating courses and we are creating a lot with just language differentiation. So, naturally it is still under the same category in the platform.…

should remove "find new courses tab" when the institute is white labeled.

There should be a function where if the institution is white labeled, and when the institution creates a student, then the student should not see find new courses tab in courses after login.…

should have a widget where the student can upload multiple files

since some universities collectes documents from the user(students) and students have so many docs to share, there should be one widget in which multiple files can be collected.

'My courses' button/section could be more prominent

Several users, both students and course creators, have not been able to find their list of courses from the OL homepage as the icon is a very small globe icon that belies its importance.…

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Timer-based Access

I am writing to share a suggestion that I believe could significantly enhance the learning experience on your platform – the implementation of timer-based access for Massive Open Online Courses…

Disable skim or fast forward on videos

It would be great if there is a feature where students cannot skim or fast forward to the end of video to register completion. At the moment we can track progress but this is triggered even if…

Videos on the Institution Portal Landing Page

Is it possible to be able to add video recordings from Vimeo to the Institution Landing Page?

Chat function on mobile

I'd like to ask that the development team consider enabling the chat function on mobile devices. A lot of our students nowadays use their phones to engage with their courses,…