ANGEL Community Hub

Some of you who use both ANGEL and the Blogs at Penn State may be interested in having your blog headlines be fed into your course. The link below documents how to generate and embed JavaScript which will do that for you.

http://blogger.psu.edu/help/advanced/headlinetoangel

If students or instructors see "???" instead of a French or Spanish accent, they may need to switch encoding to Western/ISO-8859-1/Latin-1.

To switch encoding:

1. In the browser, go to the View menu and select Character Encoding (Firefox), Encoding (Internet Explorer) or Text Encoding (Safari).
Note: In Internet Explorer 7, you must right-click on the page to see the Encoding option.

2. Select the option for Western (ISO-8859-1) [Firefox], Western European [Internet Explorer], or Western (ISO Latin 1) [Safari].

Note: This problem appears to be more likely on a Mac, but can happen to Windows students who have been viewing non-English sites.

The MTO archive lets you download multimedia modules created in different technology projects.

MTO Archive: http://tlt.its.psu.edu/mto/

Each MTO zip file contains a Zip file called "ANGEL.zip" designed for easy upload into ANGEL. To upload this file:

1. Log in to the course management system and navigate to the tool for uploading files into your course.
2. Go to the Lessons tab, then click Add Content in the toolbar.
3. Select Add a File, then upload "ANGEL.zip."
4. Click the Extract button to expand the contents of the file.
5. Select "index.html" as the default page.
6. Students who click on the link for that file should see the animation.
7. To make the animation open in a new window, click the Settings above the animation. Check Advanced settings, then change Link Target to "New Window" and check No Banner.