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Can anyone tell me what the limit is for the number of characters that an instructor can put into the text box (remarks field) when commenting on student submissions to the drop box. An instructor was showing me that comments she made there are now truncated - too long.. and she doesn't want to use attachments. She siad she used to be able to put longer comments there.
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It used to be that when you added a link and selected "New Window" and "No banner" as the target settings that ANGEL would open the link in a new tab outside of ANGEL - but now (at least in Firefox) the link is still opening up with the ANGEL navigation/settings options still there - like it is still within the framework of ANGEL and this is causing me problems with printing some things - and it is still referencing a long url with cms as the start... I want students to have access to the actual link so they can bookmark it if they would like to - is there a way to get links to work as true links? not referencing something from within ANGEL?

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An instructor has asked me if the assignments (ANGEL quizzes and dropboxes) can automatically appear in the ANGEL calendar based on our due dates for those objects. I've been trying to figure out how to configure these assignments to show up in the calendar.

Does anyone know if I can configure the calendar to look at the assignment due dates and create entries automatically? or do I have to do this manually?

BTW the "ANGEL® 7. 1 INSTRUCTOR REFERENCE MANUAL" doesn't mention anything about automatic entries.

1) When using ANGEL mail, I see folks are recommending always using the View Inbox within a course (rather than Quick Message) and this will probably side-step the problem I keep running into with faculty as well... but was also wondering if there is a fix for this...

On 2 different computers on campus, when faculty were trying to use the Quick Message "To" feature - when the pop-up opens, the "OK" button that lets you go back to compose the message is off the screen - and when I try to drag it up a little just to get to the "OK" it just snaps back where it was and you can't get to it without using the tab button to tab through options - even then you can't tell if you are actually on the OK button becasue you can't see it...

This is a recording of a Town Hall session I delivered simultaneously to a live audience and via Adobe Connect. The was an open discussion forum where the new tools and features of ANGEL 7.3 were explored in depth. Topics covered included several interface changes, some updated features, as well as some new ones. Click here to play the Adobe Connect recording: ANGEL 7.3 Town Hall.

Subject: ANGEL v7.3

I still have some faculty using the default template on the Syllabus tab. They are having two issues with it in 7.3. First, the "Print" option that used to be on the Syllabus tab seems to be gone. I have searched in the kb and here in the hub for more information and found no results. Faculty have had to highlight the entire template, choose to open it in a new browser window, and then print from there. However, the steps are very browser-specific and the users need to be just a little web saavy to know how to do this.