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Ability to Display Books by Genre in Student View

Instead of Students sorting through books alphabetically, they could click on tabs by genre and search for books they might be interested in.
Suggested by: Miriam Brown (14 Oct, '19) Upvoted: 21 Feb Comments: 14
Planned

Add "Series" information under Title Details

If a book is a part of a series, that information (including the book number in the series), should be visible under the Title Details in our library.
Suggested by: Bailey S (10 Oct, '19) Upvoted: 21 Mar Comments: 10
Planned

Offer Suggestion Based on Returned Book

Similar to GoodReads. When students return a book, BookSource recommends another book from the library that they might like.
Suggested by: Keith (04 Nov, '19) Upvoted: 19 Jul, '23 Comments: 0
Planned

Ability to turn off student check-in of books

Since I teach older students, I would like the ability to turn off their capability to check a book back in to the class library. Students have "checked in" books ...
Suggested by: Emily Shurtleff (02 Oct, '19) Upvoted: 19 Jul, '23 Comments: 25
Planned

Notify students when new books are added to the library

Suggested by: Grace (31 Oct, '19) Upvoted: 16 Jul, '22 Comments: 2
Planned

Add reading level when adding a book to the library after scanning.

It would be helpful and time saving if there is an option to enter genre and or level after scanning rather than having to go into the library.
Suggested by: Nancy L. Durang (11 Oct, '19) Upvoted: 31 Dec, '22 Comments: 2
Planned

Ability to Search by Reading Level

It would be great for students and educators to be able to search the library by reading/lexile level as needed.
Suggested by: Elizabeth (16 Jun, '20) Upvoted: 04 Sep, '22 Comments: 3
Planned

Student View allow sort by location

I have my library organized in bins that are labeled. It would be awesome if when checking out students could sort & search by the location. Ex. Student could search ...
Suggested by: Sarah (06 Nov, '19) Upvoted: 2 days ago Comments: 4
Planned

Ability to add a book to the library using a book title (not just isbn)

Suggested by: KM (13 Apr, '20) Upvoted: 06 Jul, '22 Comments: 1
Planned

Make searches less finicky

Searches have to be typed exactly correct with no suggestions. It would be great to make searches provide suggestions and have it less sensitive to needing exact typing.
Suggested by: Mary (18 Feb, '20) Upvoted: 15 Jun, '22 Comments: 0
Planned

Reviews

I would like to be able to click on my students and see the reviews they have written. I would also like to have a button called "Reviews" to just click on and see ...
Suggested by: Paula (07 Nov, '19) Upvoted: 15 Jun, '22 Comments: 2
Planned

Ability to browse student view by reading level or genre

Suggested by: Elizabeth Hill (19 Jun, '20) Upvoted: 29 Aug, '21 Comments: 2
Planned

Revamp the Search Bar for Easier Searches in Student View

Students search for book titles and the search results are almost always a dead end. Students should be able to search any word in the title or the author's name and ...
Suggested by: Abbie (12 Nov, '20) Upvoted: 22 Oct, '21 Comments: 0
Planned

Allowing only teacher Return of books

Due to COVID, it would be nice to have books only be able to be returned by the teacher. That way the books can sit in quarantine for a few days before being allowed ...
Suggested by: Carol (27 Aug, '20) Upvoted: 25 Aug, '21 Comments: 4
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Ability to "hold/quarantine" books

Add an option to be able to hold books so that they are quarantined or held for checkout. For example, give the option of "hold" in addition t checkout so we can keep ...
Suggested by: Austin (24 Aug, '20) Upvoted: 21 Oct, '20 Comments: 2
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Categories to Easily Search Books

I would like to have the categories listed where students can easily view their GLM books or the category of books they are looking for, rather than be overwhelmed ...
Suggested by: Jayme O. (09 Oct, '20) Upvoted: 15 Jul, '22 Comments: 0
Planned

Improved function in Student View on mobile devices.

My students log in on their phones by scanning a QR code. We noticed that the mobile format has very limited capabilities, so students are flipping through dozens of ...
Suggested by: Lauren (11 Nov, '19) Upvoted: 18 Aug, '22 Comments: 1
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Display number of copies on main Library page

It is possible that the column with "copies" will also be placed on the first part. (Then we could immediately see if there are several copies of a reading book ...
Suggested by: Wetje (13 May, '20) Upvoted: 12 Mar, '21 Comments: 2
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Ability to merge a library with another member

I work on a team of teachers and we often share books. It would be great if we could merge our libraries together to give kids access to all of our books.
Suggested by: Kaleigh Frye (26 Aug, '20) Upvoted: 30 Jun, '21 Comments: 1
Planned

Fix problem where photo of book ends up sideways

Some photo uploads work correctly and some are sideways.
Suggested by: Carol Hansen (04 Oct, '19) Upvoted: 18 Dec, '19 Comments: 1
Planned