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Five Things Faculty Should Know about Ending One Semester and Starting Another

Following are some helpful hints for faculty using ANGEL for courses as the fall semester winds down and the spring semester approaches. Read the article.

Since its launch in 2000, the Blackboard Exemplary Course Program aims to help faculty use e-Learning technology more effectively by identifying and disseminating best practices for designing engaging online courses. Using a rubric, instructors and course designers are able to evaluate how well their own course conforms to best practices for Course Design, Interaction & Collaboration, Assessment and Learner Support.

Please consider participating in the 2011 Exemplary Course Program by submitting a course of your own or volunteering to be a reviewer or both! The deadline for nominating your course for review is January 18, 2011. Feel free to forward this message on to faculty or instructional designers you think would benefit from participating in this program.

To help you prepare for the upgrade to ANGEL 7.4, we've released several ANGELshorts, in pdf and video format, covering the key features you need to know about.

ANGELshorts Vol. 4 Issue 1: Five Things You Need to Know about ANGEL 7.4
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ANGELshorts Vol. 4 Issue 2: Five Things You Need to Know about the Merged Roster Manager
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ANGELshorts Vol. 4 Issue 3: Five Things You Need to Know about the Survey Tool
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ANGELshorts Vol. 4 Issue 4: Five Things You Need to Know About the Grading Rubric
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Kate Twoey, Instructional Production Specialist for World Campus Learning Design, recorded a very informative video on master source questions and how they function in Assessments. This video contains very important information pertaining to how questions are stored in ANGEL and how changes to the master question can have impact in multiple courses--even if you did not mean it to. Due to length, the video is broken down into two parts. Below is the first part detailing how master source questions work and the potential ramifications of making changes to these questions.

This presentation on the changes to content Import and Export is courtesy of Louise Sharrar. Louise is an Instructional Production Specialist for World Campus Learning Design, a member of our documentation team, and all-around good egg.The video is broken into two parts, approximately 5 minutes each. The first explores the changes to the Export process.

This second video covers the changes to the Import process.

In ANGEL 7.3, quizzes that contain fill-in-the-blank or fill-in-multiple blanks questions will not convert to assessments if the precision field is used. Below is a video tutorial demonstrating how to work around this issue so that quizzes with these question types can convert to assessments.

Here is another video to help you prepare for moving from Quizzes to Assessments. Today's topic is on how to randomize quiz questions using Question Sets. Remember, Question Sets replace Section Headings in Assessments. Also note that everything covered regarding assessments also applies to Surveys in ANGEL 7.4