Blackboard should set a cookie to remember the location a user comes from when they sign in via SAML authentication. That way, our employees can proceed with sign in if they happen to hit a staff-only link first.

Create a "Chat" app to provide a chat feature for site visitors to chat with internal employees.

To change the order of global icons, one must completely rework all global icons for a template. In effect, you have to remove all and rebuild if you want to change the order. It would be great to be able to drag and drop reorder or have an "order" dropdown or option for each icon so you can change the order without destroying and rebuilding every time.

Allow a link to be formed and posted to the websites through the messaging side. That way results from messaging surveys can be tracked together with surveys posted on social media and the websites.

SchoolMessenger has an integration with the Skyward Family Access portal that allows parents to update their communication preferences (it is under a tab called SkyLert). For example, they can choose to receive inclement weather messages via text but not a phone call by simply checking/unchecking boxes. They could not edit their contact information, but could add additional email addresses and phone number (possibly for babysitters, grandparents, etc.).

This would be a great addition to the Bb mass communication product.

Editor Layouts allowed you to add content within an app (used to be flex now content) on a page added to a section configuration. This would allow a webmaster to set-up a template for one to work from. For example, district sometimes like teachers to have certain content on their homepage and maybe the district logo. The webmaster could create "dummy" text in a app and the teacher would fill in their specific info. This was a time saver. Please allow editor layouts to be created in content apps and added to section configurations.

I'd like to find a way for co-taught classes to be populated into teachers' rosters. Or perhaps be able to manually enter emails.

It would nice to track the open rate of our emails..

The Table App Needs attention and updating, as follows:
- A function for cells to span column and rows.
- Improved interface for editor
- Fix content deletion bug
- Resize capability for rows, columns, and table itself
- Color capability for table content and table itself, including cells, rows, and columns
- Link capability for content other than text
- Insert table tool inside of other apps

We import our district calendar events, board of education meetings and all athletics events into the calendars, but unfortunately the calendar import does not allow for us to include the full information/address for the Location of the events. Please add Address, City, State and Zipcode fields as those that can be imported via an Excel .csv file.

Please rename APPs to Modules, Templates or Containers. Apps to most of the public especially the non Tech savoy teachers is confusing. I am very knowledgeable in the tech world and its not the correct term in website design. http://www.dictionary.com/browse/app

Apps with in apps doesn't make sense. A module in a module, or Container in a container, templates with in templates all do.

Several requests here are for the ability to automatically update the Staff Directory from Active Directory or scheduled uploads. Customers with the Integrated App have already provided this data and the Staff Directory IS supposed to be live and dynamic in the App. So it seems possible that this data could be used to populate the Staff Directory in Web Community Manager.

I should be able to give permission for CERTAIN users to be able to PUSH calendar events to higher level calendars WITHOUT WAITING FOR APPROVAL.

I'm getting errors with the WAVE and SiteImprove tools for accessibility with the staff directory images. I would suggest that using the person's first and last name would be ideal.

Campus staff and end uses don't really get the friendly URL outside of seeing it on a news article or announcement.

These friendly URLs should remain constant throughout the user experience irrespective if they clicked on it to get there.

The default option for search on Blackboard websites is to search all pages associated with your main domain name.

This means if a parent searches for "homecoming" on High School A, they could possibly get the results from High School B.

I went to Denton ISD and searched for "second grade" from Blanton ES and the first page of results were all from different elementary schools.

We've had them alter the way search works on our site, but it does cost extra. Odd that this is the default. Does anyone else have issues with search complaints?

I just learned that the Staff Directory app and the About Teacher app will obfuscate email addresses to prevent (or at least slow down) their collection by email harvesters.

Since we also add email addresses in other apps (Tables, Minibases, Content), could WCM consider obfuscating all email addresses or giving content creators an option to add obfuscation? Maybe a Captcha screen?

When using the updated option to choose a link or file instead of an actual article, the option to toggle visibility on the "More Info" link is desirable. Clicking the headline opens the file or external link in a new window an having the "More info" button there does the same but in the same window. The action is redundant. I wouldn't strictly remove it, but have an option to display the "More Info" button by default on all headlines to accommodate those who don't want it either way.