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Responses to Your Suggestions

Thank you for the comments and suggestions you've submitted to the Technology Services online suggestion box. Here are our latest suggestions and responses.

 

Anita Eikens
Executive Director of Technology Services

 

SuggestionsResponses
I think we need to be able to check - in electronically when we use services at the Media Hub.

Thanks for your suggestion.  We forwarded it to the Media Hub and they are looking into acquiring the necessary hardware and finding someone to program the application for them.

Anita Eikens
Executive Director of Information Technology
Greetings, the search box on the website needs to have the word 'Search' cleared when one clicks in the box. That can be programmed on the click event for the text box or something like that, no?  I always have to delete the word before I can search for something. Tx Thanks for the your comment.  I shared your suggestion with the Marketing Communications department since they work on the Alverno.edu website.  They have received a couple comments about the search box, but are focusing their work on other priorities at this point.  Their suggestion is to double-click in the search box and enter your search criteria.
Computers in TL109G need to be updated - maybe the browser?  Slow going getting things started. Thank you for your question; we’re sorry you’re experiencing slowness with the computers in TL109G.  Those computers are scheduled for replacement during this next fiscal year (2012-13).  Should you have any specific needs in the meantime, please enter a Help Desk request and we will be happy to meet with you look for a workaround.  We may be able to tweak settings to improve the speed of a specific browser or move your class to another lab if necessary.Best regards,Technology Services
I think there should be a different way to organize the Moodle homepage after you have logged in. All the classes that you've been registered for since Moodle began are all listed. Maybe a drop down menu to choose the semester for which you want to look in to find the class you want. Or maybe removing the classes that have ended. There should just be a different way to organize the way all the classes appear so that when you log in, you're not overwhelmed with so many different classes all at once and you can find the one you're looking for quicker. Thanks. Thanks for the suggestion.  We are aware that Moodle course lists can become long quickly, and are working on a couple of ways to try to keep the list manageable.  
  • First, previous semester courses are hidden shortly after faculty are required to turn in incompletes for the semester.  Once that deadline has passed, you will no longer see previous semester courses on your list.  This is similar to the process that was used when Educator was our course management system.
  • Second, we will be adding another block to the Moodle front page to help navigate between courses.  This will be the My Courses block.  This block will allow both students and faculty to see a list of semesters that can be expanded to show only the courses for that semester.  All courses will still appear in the center section of the page but, hopefully, the My Courses block will make it easier to find a specific course without scrolling down the entire page.  Please watch for an article in Campus NewsNet announcing the change. 
  • In addition to both of these modifications, we are working with MoodleRooms, our hosting company, to see if there is something they can design for the center section of the front page that has capabilities similar to the My Courses block.  We don’t know yet if this is possible, or what the costs might be, so we are implementing the My Courses block right away.
Sarah WienekeApplication Specialist / ProgrammerPosted 1/31/12