What is going on with Catalog?

[swinter]

We were told that Catalog would be the perfect fit as an online registration system, but when we implemented it, we found that it lacked so much capability (including basic design needs), only about 30% of it was useful. We were told that no future improvements are going to be made to this expensive add-on, including custom ones. And tech support doesn't know what Catalog even is. So what is going on with Catalog and making it a more useful product? 

[jsowalsk]

Susan if you are interested there is a Catalog Collaboration meeting to discuss the survey results you participated in. It is in Warren Station at 3:15 MDT on Tuesday. 

[trinaadams]

Is anyone able to share a summary of the Catalog Collaboration meeting hosted at InstructureCon 2017?

 @swinter  were you able to investigate any of your concerns while at InstructureCon?

[swinter]

I didn’t even hear about it, which really bugs me. I found out about it afterwards when people referred to it.

What I did learn after was the nothing is going to be done with Catalog until sometime in 2018.

I would like to know what happened at that meeting too.

Susan

[jsowalsk]

Hi  @swinter ‌ and  @trinaadams ‌ I am in charge of the unofficial Catalog collaboration group for Higher Education. But, I have been informed non-higher education users on the side. What I know from Instructure is that you should have been sent a survey by your CSM asking for feature requests about Catalog. Here are the results of this survey: Catalog Clients Survey Findings - 2017 Q3 - Google Slides 

I talked to a few people who are in charge of product and they said they need to upgrade AWS before installing the features mentioned. 

Please contact me with any questions.

Jessica

[jsowalsk]

 @swinter   @trinaadams   @kmeeusen   @RobDitto  I am creating a group for Catalog users to voice their opinions, ask questions, and comment on their use of Catalog. Please up vote this idea here to make it happen: https://community.canvaslms.com/ideas/9184-catalog-consortium-of-users 

[clcavana]

communityteam‌ What are our next steps to group approval and getting started? 

[awilliams]

Hey clcavana, it looks  @scottdennis  was seeking a group leader or two over on the group voting page about an hour after this. He inquired if you and  @jsowalsk  were interested in volunteering. Jessica has already responded. I'd respond to him over there and see where it goes from there.

[swinter]

Hi. I am back in the office now. I can help for a while, but we are actually going to move away from using Catalog in the next several months because we had to rebuild so much, of what was promised, in a different system. I may not be a good long-term option, but I can help while I am still an active user.

Susan

[jsowalsk]

The group has been created -- you can join here: https://community.canvaslms.com/groups/catalog-users-group