Student Side
Please share your enhancement ideas. Technical problems should be reported to the OIT Service Desk at 422-4000 or it@byu.edu.
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I'd love to be able to access more semesters than just the last two. To see old assignments, look at submissions you've made, etc.
I'd love to be able to access more semesters than just the last two. To see old assignments, look at submissions you've made, teacher's powerpoints, resources, etc.
28 votesThank you for your suggestion to improve learning suite! Your enhancement request has been added to our ticketing system. Redmine #5413.
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BRING BACK FULL MONTH VIEW OF COMBINED SCHEDULE ASAP PLEASE
I turned on Learning Suite today to look at my Combined Schedule, and noticed it had changed, and no longer supported a full month view of the schedule, it only allowed for a 5-day view or 7-day view. I always use the Combined Schedule to plan out my future weeks, and I hate having to click through weeks to figure out what's going on, I just want a monthly overview. Please change this back ASAP.
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No more comparisons!
I don't understand the need for a comparison button. I have gone my whole schooling career without ever knowing how I compared to everyone else in the class, and you know what? I've been fine! Pride begins with comparisons, and not to mention the low self-esteem one receives when they've done worse than everyone else in the class. I'm disappointed with BYU and the standards it stands for if it has pride-promoting buttons next to every single assignment. Please remove this! It does more damage than it's worth!
22 votesThank you for your request. It has been added to the ticketing system. Enhancement Request #6927 – Turn off class statistics by default.
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A "Turn Off Notifications" Feature
I get a lot of messages that do not apply to me. I actually need to know if I have relevant messages in my inbox from TA's but close to 75% of the notifications I get are from people who are asking for notes and then all the replies of "I need them too!" or "The syllabus says don't do that" etc. I would like to be able to simply not receive notifications from those messages so I know if my TA's or professors have actually shared relevant information with me.
20 votesThank you for your request. It has been added to the ticketing system. Enhancement Request #8014 — Disable notifications for specific chain emails.
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Different colors for submitting exam buttons
Have different colors for the submit and next question buttons.
Have confirmation like " Are you sure you want to submit this exam?"
I clicked the wrong button after the first exam and it submitted! Got a really bad score on that one!
19 votesEnhancement Request #7567—Submit Confirmation
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Learning Suite Quizzes Should Save Automatically!!! (Or at least have a save button)
In the days of Gmail, when you can't got three seconds without your email draft being saved, how hard can it be to have Learning Suite save your work as you go?
Even if that is for some reason too complicated, couldn't we at least add a save button? I've had Learning Suite lose my work 4 times now when I click submit. Do you know how frustrating that is on a short answer quiz? It is possibly the most demoralizing feeling one could have, next to the emotions I felt when waking up this morning and seeing the ground…
18 votesThis request has been ticketed.
Enhancement Request #4842
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Add keyboard shortcuts
The current click-based UI slows down effectiveness. If there were more robust keyboard shortcuts to navigate and interact with Learning Suite my college experience would be entirely revolutionized.
17 votesThank you for your enhancement request. It has been added to the ticketing system. Enhancement Request #7759—Keyboard Shortcuts
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Assignment due email reminder
It think it would be useful to add an option of receiving an email reminder one day before an assignment is due.
17 votesThank you for your request to improve Learning Suite! Your suggestion has been added to our ticketing system. Redmine #2323.
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17 votes
Thank you for your request to improve Learning Suite! Your suggestion has been added to our ticketing system. Redmine #1311.
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Allow assignment submissions via Cloud services (Google Drive, Dropbox, etc.)
Canvas has that really nice feature that fetches assignments directly from cloud services. That'd be really nice.
17 votesThank you for your enhancement request. It has been added to the ticketing system. Enhancement Request #7644 – Upload from Google Drive
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Make the exam list sortable
Under the exams tab, currently the exams and quizzes are sorted by when they are posted. It would be great if we had the option to sort them by when they are due.
16 votesThank you for your enhancement request. It has been added to our ticketing system. Enhancement Request #8535 – Manual Order Exams List.
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Stick With Non-Italicized Text
The new italicized text in Learning Suite looks terrible. Let's go back to the standard.
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Exam information
Show the number of questions on online exams or quizzes so we know before starting about how long it might take.
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Onscreen icon to show when there are Saturday/Sunday items not showing
Small, but
(1) for those that have these items, it would probably be a blessing to not need to hit 7 days every time (making it a persistent changed setting would also change it for this group), but
(2) for those who don't regularly have Saturday items so it's more of a surprise (so they probably won't have changed the setting out of a desire to keep screen real estate).The notification could just be a small red exclamation point or something similar on the right side of the screen at the top of the calendar. Hovering would have a…
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View ALL past classes
As of this date, you are allowed to view your past courses from exactly one year back. Currently we are in Winter 2020, meaning I can see Fall 2019 (the semester we just finished), Spring and Summer, and back to Winter 2019. However, I was attempting to look back at some Powerpoint slides from Fall 2018 (just over 1 year ago) and it doesn't show up. This feature would be nice for upperclassmen like myself trying to studying for the MCAT who have been here at BYU longer than 1 year...
13 votesThank you for your suggestion to improve Learning Suite! Your enhancement request has been added to our ticketing system. Redmine #5413.
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Have the ability to disable the "Statistics" button
Learning Suite should implement the ability to disable the statistics button for those who do not want to be compared with other students. Circumstances that factor into how well students do in their classes differ from student to student and it is of no benefit to see that you are not "doing well" compared to other students when you have a red bar that is lower than someone else's. This function does not prepare you to do better on standardized tests which only focuses on skill, not class rank. Rather, this function tells you that if you are doing better…
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Backpack
Create a "Learning Suite Backpack" that would facilitate dumping all LS course files under Assignments and Content onto a flash drive or specific location on a hard drive. I have noticed that I have downloaded the same 80mb file multiple times from one course just so I could access it on different computers. But if a feature like this were added I would only have to initiate one, one-time download at the beginning of the semester in order to have ready access to all my Learning Suite materials. Also, it might be stretching things a bit, but a sync feature…
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Clean Printout of Schedule
When I want to print out the schedule for my class folder (hard copy), the print preview includes the tabs and other items that makes the printout messy.
It would be great to have button that creates a printer friendly version of a class schedule, without the tabs and navigation buttons.11 votes -
Retake Quizzes for Practice
It would be nice if we could retake quizzes for practice. It won't go towards our grade, but we can take the quiz just like normal as a way to study for tests. It could be an option that the professor can choose to enable.
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name change
My name at the top is my maiden name - I would like my married name to appear and I have changed it in BYU's system
11 votes
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