NetAcad v3.0 Instructor FeedbackForum
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Student Password reset required
Students can use the forgot password option if they need a password reset. However, in Networking Academies which as schools, working With 13-16 year olds, it would be extremely helpful if instructors (teachers) could have an option to trigger a password reset for the students. When a class is mid-flow, waiting for the student to sort out their password can be painfully slow, so giving the teacher the option to start that process would speed up things significantly. Please can we have this.
148 votesThanks for your suggestion. Unfortunately we will not be able to implement your idea due to security and privacy issues.
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Create a student self-unenrol link / option on all courses and opt-out on NetAcad emails
over a number of years we have been using some of the scalable features within netacad, using the gradebooks for mass communication with students and the self-enrol for large scale outreach and engagement - all excellent positives.
However, less than 0.1% of students once they join feel that they have rights under data protection legislation (such as GDPR) which we must observe - with this in mind, we would like the addition of these two features.
- Student self-unenrol - where it will message the instructors and course-facilitators when this occurs (to help them catch any other potential issues).
- Student direct…
109 votesThanks for your suggestion. Unfortunately we will not be able to implement your idea at this time. We will consider this request for future implementation.
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Incorporate Webex/Teams into netacad
Integrate Webex and/or Webex Teams into netacad so instructor and students can just click a link from the course menu to start a Webex session.
64 votesArchived ·
AdminSandra Ray
(Customer Support Director, or Executive, Cisco Networking Academy)
responded
Thank you for the suggestion. We are not able to implement this feature at this time. We will continue to look into this idea for future releases.
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Provide at a Glance Indication of Assignments that Need Grading
It would be very nice if the LMS provided a way to easily identify the assignments that need to be graded.
One of the gripes my instructors complain about is not being able to quickly identify the assignments that need grading without first having to select an assignment or student. We are thinking of just moving the PTs and Labs to the college's LMS as the upload venue.
I'm pretty sure all instructors appreciated Canvas in that you could see all students and all items that needed grading at a glance.
Also would be super nice if, for example, from:
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49 votesThanks for your suggestion. Unfortunately we will not be able to implement your idea at this time. We will keep this for future consideration.
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Log in,
Hi
- Log in is being asked to many times post initial log in.
- Could Packet Tracer just open when launched from post log in Netacad.com? Now it is requesting log in again.
Thanks
46 votesArchived ·AdminSandra Ray
(Customer Support Director, or Executive, Cisco Networking Academy)
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Thank you for the suggestion.
Some improvements have been made for Packet Tracer 7.3. Individuals will not have to re-authenticate if they are logged in and taking a PTSA/PTMO exam.
They will take this type of feedback into consideration in the next release of Packet Tracer.
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Categorise the courses
Hi,
I would like to have the option to list the NetAcad courses according to a specific category. Currently, they are only listed in a random order (please see attached). It would be of great help to all instructors, especially those who are new to the academy and may not be ITE, CCNA or CCNP certified to be able to tell immediately which courses they can teach. Suggested categories include, certification required, self-enrolled, instructor-led only courses, partner and community courses.
Thank you.
43 votesThanks for your suggestion. Unfortunately we will not be able to implement you idea at this time.
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after applying "Bulk Deactivation", those activations deleted keep appearing in Managing Activations
Regarding netacad platform, when getting into Assessment Center, when you deactivate an activated exam by means of "Bulk Deactivation" link, it keeps appearing in the Managing Activations section.
Would it be possible to sort that out?
Kind Regards,33 votesArchived ·AdminSandra Ray
(Customer Support Director, or Executive, Cisco Networking Academy)
responded
Thank you for the suggestion. We are not able to implement this idea at this time. We will keep this in mind for future releases.
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Bulk Editing of Assignment Due Dates
Please provide an easy way to edit the due dates and cutoff dates for all assignments at once in the new LMS. It is incredibly tedious to go into each assignment when you have 50 per course and change dates. Moodle has a tool for this already called the "Dates Report" it just needs to be enabled.
30 votesThanks for your suggestion. Unfortunately, we are not able to implement your idea at this time.
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Notify Students of Assignment Comments & Feedback
The system does not send students a message when the instructor add a "Comment" to the assignment...... This should send the an alert that a comment has been posted to the assignment...
29 votesArchived ·AdminSandra Ray
(Customer Support Director, or Executive, Cisco Networking Academy)
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We are unable to implement this suggestion at this time. We will consider this item for the teaching and learning experience on the converged site.
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Export course feedback
Make a way to export all feedback in a file (xls or pdf)
28 votesArchived ·AdminSandra Ray
(Customer Support Director, or Executive, Cisco Networking Academy)
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Thank you for your suggestion. We are not able to add the ability to download course feedback results from each course. However, you can see this information from the Academy Success Dashboard and using the gear icon in the report you can export this information.
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LTI Integration
I use netlabs for my cisco lab environments for students to use via html. Netlabs allows LTI and an export package that can easily be added to moodle if the feature set is turned on for Instructors to customize further.
28 votesArchived ·AdminSandra Ray
(Customer Support Director, or Executive, Cisco Networking Academy)
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Thank you for the suggestion. We have reviewed this request and are not able to implement at this time. We will keep this in mind for future enhancements.
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Implement Speed Grader in the new experience
Please implement "Preview Submitted Assignments" in the new Moodle experience (aka SpeedGrader). It is very hard to grade student assignments as currently implemented! The information is below:
28 votesThanks for your suggestion. Unfortunately we will not be able to implement your idea at this time. We will keep this for future consideration.
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NetAcad Mobile App
As you all know mobile apps are more important than Web based learning. We should develop mobile app for students and all NetAcad users. Students can easily learn his/her courses on Mobile app as compare to website.
Looking forward! Thanks
23 votesThanks for your suggestion. Unfortunately we will not be able to implement at this time. We will keep this for future enhancements. We will continue to improve the mobile access website.
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Add Moodle - Block: GradeMe
It puts a list of all ungraded assignments - similar to current Canvas home paged
23 votesThanks for your suggestion. Unfortunately, we will not be able to implement your idea at this time.
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An option to sort the courses by instructor
An option to sort the courses by instructor would make it easy for the Academy manager to manage the courses.
23 votesThanks for your suggestion. Unfortunately we will be unable to implement your idea at this time. We will keep for future consideration.
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Login duration too short + double first login (always)
The duration of Login in a Course is too short (2h?). When I have a day-long lesson (8-9 hours) I have to re-login at least 3-4 times to gain access to my folders. This is annoying.
Morover, the Login phase at the first attempt alway fails (already higlighted many times) and a second Login-login has to be attempted to enter the account.20 votes -
A More Pronounced Visual Cue on Items to be Graded Highly Desirable (Yellow vs. Green)
Since humans are extremely visual, it would be nice, if for example, items to be graded showed up with a yellow highlight so that one can quickly and easily identify them. If you look at the attachment, you need to carefully scan the entries to find the one that needs grading. A Yellow band (instead of green) would allow us to save time. I have at least 3500 grading events per semester, and saving three or more seconds per item adds up significantly.
19 votesThanks for your suggestion. Unfortunately we will not be able to implement your idea at this time.
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Integration of wire shark to newer version of packet tracer
It would be very good for instructors and students to simulate networks configured in packet tracer on wire shark
17 votesThanks for your suggestion. Unfortunately we will not be able to implement at this time.
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I thik we need to go back to canvas
We need to go back to canvas to give the teachers and students a better learning experience. The classy experience we had raised the academy above no far above the the others. It is sad because now it looks like Cisco is not the leader they are just like any other online learning system. The look of it does not do the great curriculum inside and it is hard to tell Cisco from Palo Alto or HP or Juniper. More importantly my students are lost, they are confused by the layout and lack of direction. Please reconsider the move to…
16 votesArchived ·AdminSandra Ray
(Customer Support Director, or Executive, Cisco Networking Academy)
responded
Thank you for submitting your feedback through the Share Idea button.
Instructure is an excellent partner to the Networking Academy and Canvas is a great product. One of its strengths is the smooth and polished user experience. This is a testament to the terrific work of their product team that has been optimizing the experience for a decade.
Nevertheless, the strategic benefits of bringing the course management experience in house outweighed the many fine aspects of Canvas. There are two key reasons that drove this choice:
1. It enables the Networking Academy to expand its global reach. To expand our global reach, the NetAcad platform is transitioning to a federated architecture with multiple instances located across the world. Canvas is unfortunately not available in every region. We could not stay in Canvas while continuing to expand our global reach.
2. It allows the Networking Academy to be more responsive to… -
Highlighting
Allow the students to highlight items on the pages so that the student can use this for better studying.
thanks
15 votesThanks for your suggestion. Unfortunately we will not be able to implement your idea at this time. We will consider this request for future implementation.
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