NetAcad v3.0 Instructor FeedbackForum
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Create more Cisco CCST certifications
Hi,
I'd like to suggest that Cisco create additional CCST certifications based on some of your other course offerings. For example, for IT Essentials, you could create "CCST: Device Configuration and Troubleshooting". For Linux, you could create "CCST: Linux Fundamentals".
Thank you for your consideration.
5 votesDelivered ·
AdminSandra Ray
(Customer Support Director, or Executive, Cisco Networking Academy)
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Thank you for the suggestion. An announcement was posted in March to Cisco NetAcad about this. Please see the article at https://www.netacad.com/portal/news/i/new-ccst-certification-coming.
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Exporting a course in Skills for All with Custom Assignments
I have found it important to create Custom Assignments and upload lab files in my Skills For All courses.
Without a course export and restore button, this platform does not scale for instructor led courses.
Can we please have this functionality asap as we depart the Moodle LMS of Netacad and arrive at Skills For All?3 votesDelivered ·AdminSandra Ray
(Customer Support Director, or Executive, Cisco Networking Academy)
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Thank you for posting to Share Idea. You can copy an existing course in Skills for All. This will allow your customizations to be available in the new course.
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Study Guides
In the older Netacad, there was a share area where instructors could share study guides and other assignments that they had created. I feel like Netacad should really think about making official study guides for ITE and CCNA as the students are then forced to go through the curriculum and answer the questions which helps them retain the materials much better than just reading it and doing the activities.
4 votesDelivered ·AdminSandra Ray
(Customer Support Director, or Executive, Cisco Networking Academy)
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Thank you for posting to Share Idea. This is something we have started to bring back as part of the Skills for All platform. Please visit the following URLs:
To share a resource, please go here: https://cs.co/communitycontent
To view resources others have created and have been posted, please go here and filter by community: http://cs.co/InstructorResourceLibrary
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1 voteDelivered ·AdminSandra Ray
(Customer Support Director, or Executive, Cisco Networking Academy)
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Gracias por publicar en Share Idea. Hemos trabajado para solucionar este problema. Si continúa viendo problemas, por favor comuníquese con el servicio de soporte para una resolución más rápida.
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Remove references to the old (Canvas) LMS
There are still some useless and misleading references to the old LMS (Canvas), for example in the FAQs. Please, remove them.
1 voteDelivered ·AdminSandra Ray
(Customer Support Director, or Executive, Cisco Networking Academy)
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Thank you for posting to Share Idea. We are working to update the last of the English FAQs with old references to the Legacy site this week. If you continue to find items, please contact the Support Desk directly so we can work to correct.
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Improve "Change language" hint screen
After reviewing the UX of the hint screen when "Change language" is clicked from My Profile area I think it would tremendously help to add 2 things to it:
1. This link to the FAQ: https://www.netacad.com/portal/faq-page/my-profile#t274n888
2. Image like the attached one, which is already in the FAQ, but would be great also to have it on that screen, maybe instead of “in upper right corner”1 voteThanks for your suggestion. This has been implemented.
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Allow Instructor to Check or Un-Check the Enable Additional Attempts Check Box
Please change the check box so that it is NOT disabled so that instructors can CHOOSE whether or not to require instructor to enable additional attempts on assessments. Apparently in this release of the curriculum (Intro to Networks v7.x) this optional has changed for the Practice Final Exam. I do not know why.
12 votesDelivered ·AdminSandra Ray
(Customer Support Director, or Executive, Cisco Networking Academy)
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We have changed this feature for the CCNA 7 courses. When creating your class, please be sure to use the newest version to see these changes.
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I need to be able to choose MULITPLE questions out of a question bank, not just ONE!
Moodle has this capability, When I get to the question bank to add questions to a quiz, there is even a button that says 'Add all selected items", but there is no way to select multiple items!
4 votesDelivered ·AdminSandra Ray
(Customer Support Director, or Executive, Cisco Networking Academy)
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Thank you for the suggestion. We have implemented this change in Cisco NetAcad.
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Make the Course Completion less Obscure
I just completed my first course using the "New Experience". I noticed that there was nothing in the Grade Book to mark students as "Complete" or "Incomplete". A couple of weeks later, one of my students sent me an email with a screen shot saying she had not completed the course. When I began looking, I realized none of my students had "Completed" the course. After I completed a thorough search, I submitted a ticket to NetAcad Support. This is what I got back:
Please follow the steps below to complete the students:From “I’m Teaching”, hover over the course…
1 voteThanks for the feedback. We have streamlined the process for completing students in a course. Instructors can get to the course completion report in 2 clicks (“Grades/Completion” in the left toolbar and “Course Completion” at the top of the gradebook) from any page in Netacad.com.
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Self-Enroll Course Options - All the same verbiage
For our self paced courses, in the versions, there are both "Direct to Student" and "For Public Campaigns" can we condense these and choose one or the other for consistency?
For example:
Python - English 2.00 For Public Campaigns
Linux Essentials - English 2.00 For Public Campaigns
Networking Essentials - English 2.00 Direct to StudentIt seems like the "Direct to Student" language is more accurate in terms of what the instructor is setting up the course for, can we change the others to say the same? Makes it less confusing and more straightforward for the instructor and the overall…
2 votesThanks for your suggestion. This idea has been implemented.
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Allow a section to be collapsed
On the Course Home page, allow a section to be collapsed so students and teachers can better organize their work and assignments.
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ending date
Make the ending date for a course the last day students can access, not the day before. For instance my students can access thru May 3, and I put as ending date, but netacad moved from in-progress to not active when May 3 started at 12:01 am
10 votesDelivered ·AdminSandra Ray
(Customer Support Director, or Executive, Cisco Networking Academy)
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Thank you for the suggestion. This has been changed and students will have through the end of the last day of class to view all materials.
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Course Announcement tool
I just created a new "Switching, Routing, and Wireless Essentials v7.02" course but i could not see the "Announcement" tool. After talking to the Support Desk, i was told that the Announcement Tool is being phased out of courses!!
I rely on this tool to send reminders to my students throughout the semester. the "delay" sending these announcement is a huge time saver for me.
I wish that you continue providing these useful tool to instructors.
Thank you.4 votesThanks for your suggestion. This feature is being added to all new course template releases going forward. Please watch for your course to be released.
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Gradebook
It will be better if your make us possibility to reduce width of colums in gradbook. they are too large. thank you very much.
73 votesThanks for your suggestion. This has been implemented.
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Ability to clone customized course for multiple sections
Ability to clone customized course that can be used across multiple sections.
We teach multiple sections of the same course with different dates and different faculty. This requires us to have common customized template with common course content, assessment etc.
1 voteDelivered ·AdminSandra Ray
(Customer Support Director, or Executive, Cisco Networking Academy)
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Individuals can import customizations from one course to another. Please see the “Backup”, “Import” and “Restore” options under the gear icon after launching your course.
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Update student lookup
When looking up a student not only show the current and ended classes but also the archived classes.
7 votesThanks for your suggestion. This idea has been implemented.
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work windows is small ; titles are very big
please increase the work area; titles are very big to the page
2 votesThanks for your suggestion. We have increased the vertical space in the assessment center to provide more workspace.
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Allow instructors to set restrictions and change the description of modules
Python Essentials course:
One should be able to change restrictions. I understand the restrictions on survey and terms and conditions, but not on modules.
I also like to be able to change the title of modules
1 voteThanks for your suggestion. This has been implemented.
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1 voteDelivered ·AdminSandra Ray
(Customer Support Director, or Executive, Cisco Networking Academy)
responded
Thank you for the suggestion. You can mark all messages as read now. Once you select all messages under the “More” drop down you will see a “Mark as Read” link.
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change date available
Why do all items by default in course show available until day before we mark the course ends in creation? Stuff should be available to last day.
4 votesDelivered ·AdminSandra Ray
(Customer Support Director, or Executive, Cisco Networking Academy)
responded
Thank you for the idea. This has been implemented and the dates should show accurately once again.
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