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ANGELshorts Vol. 2, Issue #6 Five Things Instructors Should Know about Downloading All Drop Box Submissions is now available.

From the article:
"Drop boxes provide an area for students to submit assignments electronically. You can then review and grade these assignments either by viewing them in your Web browser or downloading them to your desktop. However, did you know that as an alternative to downloading each drop box submission separately, you could download all drop box submissions simultaneously?"

The ANGEL Quizzing Team, comprised of instructors and instructional support staff from around Penn State, is focused on exploring new and powerful ways to use ANGEL Quizzes. In particular, the team identified several potential areas of growth regarding the use of ANGEL quizzes. These areas include the opportunity for instructors to (1) increase the use of question banks and question pools, e,g, materials from publishers, (2) incorporate third party applications such as Captivate and Softchalk, and (3) embed multimedia files (images, sounds and movie clips) into quiz questions.

IST has developed a tool, called LitterBox, that removes the extra files created when downloading an entire drop box folder from ANGEL to your desktop. This tool is extremely helpful for instructors who use this means to then upload the drop box submissions into Turnitin. To read more about it, and download Litterbox, check out the Turnitin Community Hub.

Today we held the first in a series of town hall meetings focusing on what faculty, staff, and students can expect to find when we upgrade to ANGEL 7.2 the weekend of July 19. Some of the planned changes in 7.2 include:

A more robust mail tool

An HTML editor that incorporates a WebEq component

A Date Manager

A Permissions Manager

A video recording of the town hall will be available shortly. In the meantime, here is a link to a copy of the presentation. Please feel free to share it with folks who will benefit from the information.

ANGELshorts Vol. 2, Issue #4 Five Things Faculty Should Know about Publishing Final Grades is now available.

From the article:
"When preparing to submit grades for a course while in eLion, instructors have the option of pulling in the “published” final grades for their students in their ANGEL course. If you have been using the ANGEL gradebook throughout the semester, this feature could save you having to manually enter a grade in eLion for each student."

Go to the ANGEL Shorts tab to read previous issues.

Yu-chang did a short movie covering the latest ANGEL Shorts topic. The Five Things Faculty Need to Know about the Action Editor. Just click on the image to open the movie.

Click on the image to watch the movie.

At this year's symposium I had the pleasure of leading a panel discussion on ways instructors can use some of the newer interactive technologies in conjunction with their course in ANGEL in order to create a more dynamic learning experience for their students. The title of the session was, ANGEL as the Hub: Integrating Services into ANGEL and my fellow panel members included Maritza Hogue-Davidson, a lecturer in languages in the College of Liberal Arts, Terry O'Heron, the ANGEL Project Manager, and Jennifer Mullen, the ANGEL Application Tester. The session was full and featured some lively discussion. A summary of the session as well as a recording of it can be found on the symposium site by clicking here:

Summary

Recording