ANGEL Community Hub

Course editors can use the Communicate Settings tool, located under the Manage tab beneath the PSU Course Settings subheading, to configure the mail settings for their course. For example, by default students do not have the right to forward course mail to other classmates Internet e-mail accounts. However, instructors can grant students this ability by going into the Course Mail Settings and changing the minimum rights for the Send Internet E-mail feature from the Default setting to Students/Members. By granting them this right, students will then have the option to send a copy of the message to each course member's Internet E-mail account when they send course mail.

Here is the link to the October 3rd ANGEL Town Hall. The topic was "ANGEL 7.1: Five Things Faculty and Staff Need to Know."

ANGEL Shorts, Vol. 1, Issue #4 Five Things Everyone Should Know about the new Help and Information Guide is now available.

From the article. "Along with the upgrade to ANGEL 7.1 we also upgraded our ANGEL Help and Information Guide. The new help page format was chosen because it made information more accessible by breaking it down into articles. Articles are chunks of information focused on a particular subject" Read more.

Check out previous issues of ANGEL Shorts.

Course editors, did you know you can sequence lesson content items when adding them to your course?

Traditionally whenever content items are added to a course they appear at the bottom of the list. However, with ANGEL 7.1 editors have the option of placing the item in the order they wish it to appear by using the Sequence option while in the content item's Settings. The Sequence filed, available under Content tab by selecting the Advanced view, is a numeric value that determines the display sequence of the content item on the Lessons page. The lower the number assigned to the content item the closer that item appears to the top of the page. For instance, a content item given a sequence value of 1 will appear at the top of the page. An item given a sequence value of 10 will appear lower on the page.

By default the gradebook factors in everyone's scores when calculating category and overall averages. This means there is the potential to inadvertently skew class averages because, depending on the gradebook settings, scores for course editors, assistants, and authenticated guests are factored into the category and overall average calculations. This is true even if you select the "Only Students" option to view grades. However, there is a way to remove all non-students from the average calculation.

ANGEL Shorts, Vol. 1, Issue #3 Read more.

Check out previous issues of ANGEL Shorts.

A recording of the 8/27 ANGEL Town Hall: 5 Things a Faculty Member needs to know about ANGEL 7.1 is now available though training services. The town hall provided an in-depth exploration of the new ANGEL interface.