These are the enhancement requests submitted by users. Feel free to reach out with additional suggestions via the Contact Us form.
Bulletins
- If no items get approved then don't auto publish items.
- Make sure to maintain items that are not published.
- Add a special link in Bulletin settings that administrators can share with users. This link would take them directly to the correct place to add a bulletin, skipping the normal navigation steps.
Calendars
- Allow users to add custom sponsors to their list of favorites.
- Allow users to add custom locations to their list of favorites.
- Add a room number field.
- Allow text input for time selector.
- Save filters between list and detail navigation.
- Apply filters/search directly on the list page.
- Add a widget with an image.
- Rename Master Calendars to Group Calendars.
- Add support for hybrid/virtual events without a video link.
- Clean up the recurring events selection process.
- Allow recurring calendar events to include images.
- Replace iCal events process. Verify time zone logic.
- Option to schedule an event.
- Clean up images associated with Calendars that no longer exist.
- Allow people to look at past events.
- Keep past events.
- Add more filter options (like audience).
- Create a user friendly widget builder.
Directory
- Allow users to upload an audio file showing how to pronounce their name, along with a text pronunciation guide.
- Review public facing design.
Email+
- Provide an option to create an archive index page listing past emails. Archived emails would remain exact copies of the originals and could be kept indefinitely.
- Add a Setting tab to the right side of the My Emails. This will allow users to define a seed group and specify who should receive an auto-report when an email is sent.
- On the Message tab, if multiple email elements are selected, allow them to be dragged to a new location.
- A new edit tab that shows the email, allowing you to click on the section you want to edit.
- Add Google Analytics tracking information to links when an email is sent, so link activity can be measured more easily.
- Add clear instructions to the Files section.
- Support mail merge fields in the View in Browser option.
- Roll out new campus-wide email skins based on designs from the Branding team.
- Users want an option to only see emails that they created or sent. (srupkey@illinois.edu)
Forms
- Allow live forms to be edited.
- When on the Questions tab, allow checked rows to be dragged and dropped as a group.
- Allow users to choose a campus-branded skin for emails sent through Forms and Surveys.
- Add a new question type that allows a form to collect a date, a time, or both in a single question. It would also support advanced validation, such as allowing only weekdays between 8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m.
- Allow users to upload multiple files at the same time.
- For forms that allow users to save and finish later, remove the restriction that prevents them from moving to the next page when a required question is unanswered.
- Allow for quantities and costs to be added to the form.
- Provide a feeder report that can be fed into the campus system to allow for billing.
Groups
- Add a search to find all of the groups that a user might be in.
- Add a new group type that points to listservs. This type of group will not allow users to update the privileges tab.
- Add a way to send emails to people when someone subscribes.
Short URL
- Add tracking attributes to short URLs so users can better measure clicks and usage.
- Add the ability to run or pull multiple short URL usage reports more easily.
- Add automatic reporting for monthly, quarterly, or yearly notification of usage.
Webtools
- Add a new Analytics subtab on the homepage that displays usage and activity information for the items a user has created.
- Add a new section to the Webtools home screen above the pods that shows a quick list of the items you are currently working on.
- Add an optional setting that helps take users directly to the place they are most likely trying to reach when editing content.