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To optimize the performance of Penn State's Course Management System, ANGEL, during fall finals week, the Import Wizard and Export Wizard tools will be turned off from 4:00 a.m. Saturday, December 12 until 6:00 a.m. Saturday, December 19. These tools include the Copy Course, import Content Package, import Master Course, and export ANGEL Archive functions. Note: During finals week, instructors can continue to create course content and create master courses and learning object repositories. Students can continue to upload/download files and access lesson content.

ANGEL has recently been upgraded to version 7.3. Users can learn about the features of ANGEL 7.3 in several ways. Read more...

The ANGEL Help and Information Guide knowledgebase will be unavailable from 12:01 a.m. until approximately 8:00 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 15 due to maintenance. The Help and Information Guide is located at http://angelkb.ais.psu.edu/ and accessed by clicking the help button within ANGEL. For any questions, please contact ANGEL support at angelsupport@psu.edu.

On July 20, two ANGEL features are being updated: 1) the way in which discussion forums are displayed in the Discussion Forums component on the course Communicate tab, and 2) what a course editor sees on the Activity Detail report for a lesson content item if tracking is disabled.

Users will now find up-to-date documentation when they click the Help (?) button within ANGEL (or go directly to http://angelkb.ais.psu.edu).

Penn State’s Course Management System, ANGEL (http://cms.psu.edu), will be upgraded from version 7.1 to version 7.3 the weekend of May 16. The new version of ANGEL will feature enhancements to several existing tools, and several new tools will help course editors perform administrative tasks. Users will also see several minor interface changes. For the most part, however, the functionality will remain familiar to users. Learn more about the new features in version 7.3.

From 6:00 p.m. Friday, May 15 to 6:00 a.m. Monday, May 18, ANGEL will be unavailable while Information Technology Services (ITS) performs the upgrade. ITS regrets any inconvenience this outage may cause. For any questions, contact ANGEL support at angelsupport@psu.edu.

Users of Penn State’s Course Management System, ANGEL (http://cms.psu.edu/), should be aware that once they have logged in, if they have been inactive for 90 minutes, their session will time out and they will be logged off. Five minutes before the 90 minutes of inactivity have elapsed, a message will pop up asking the user whether he or she wishes to continue the ANGEL session. If the user clicks the “Stay Connected” button in the pop-up message, the session will continue. If 90 minutes of inactivity have elapsed and the user has been logged off, in order to start a new session, he or she must close all Web browsers, then again open a browser and log on to ANGEL.