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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

ANGELshorts Vol. 2, Issue #3 Five Things Faculty Should Know about the Action Editor is now available.

From the article:
"The Action Editor, available for content items on the Lessons tab, provides an advanced tool that allows you to define actions to be taken when certain events and conditions occur. For example, an action could be defined to allow a student to gain access to previously locked material (an action) after the submission of a quiz (an event) only if their quiz grade was above 80 percent (the condition)."

Go to the ANGEL Shorts tab to read previous issues.

I gave a presentation to the e-Education Council today where the main focus was to update the council on the status of our planned upgrade to ANGEL 7.2 at the end of the spring semester. I also provided them with an update of what we're doing as far as bolstering the hardware and improving system performance. Since this is information a lot of you would also be interested in hearing, I made a brief movie out of my slides.

Presentation to the PSU e-Education Council

ANGELshorts Vol. 2, Issue #2 Five Things Faculty Should Know about the Manage Tab is now available.

From the article:
"The course Resources tab is the central location for information concerning the course. It combines the functionality of the course welcome page available in previous versions of ANGEL with other course resource tools, such as the Penn State Library Tools. Instructors can customize the Resources tab to best meet the needs of their course by adding various components via the Edit Page link in the toolbar."

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You can also watch a brief movie of this ANGELshort created by Yu Chang Hsu.

Go to the ANGEL Shorts tab to read previous issues.

We've been reviewing ANGEL 7.2 in earnest in order to be prepared for our upgrade targeted for the end of the spring semester. Some of the new features we're looking forward to introducing include a Date Manager and new HTML Editor as well as re-designed mail and chat tools. Having said that, we're not finished with our testing so the feature set may change.

Yu-Chang Hsu created a movie version of ANGELshorts (Vol. 2, #1): Five Things Faculty Should Know about the Manage Tab. In the movie Yu-Chang walks you through the essential things you need to know about using the Manage tab including course settings and management features as well as , data management, tools. The movie is short, to the point, and very informative. I recommend checking it out. Let us know what you think and maybe we can make this a regular feature.

Click on the image to open the movie.