Other users made these suggestions for improving Booksource Classroom.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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 ...
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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.
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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.
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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 ...
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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.
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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.
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Fix problem where photo of book ends up sideways
Some photo uploads work correctly and some are sideways.
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