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John Harwood was asking for some ways that he could have teams of students in his course create mock Web sites. I told him that this could be done using Team File Space in ANGEL. I wrote this summary, which I thought might be helpful, especially the part where teams can share their file space with the rest of their class (an obscure, but useful feature):

First off, the Team File Space is a place where teams of students within a course can upload any type of file that ANGEL will allow (HTML pages, style sheets, graphics, flash files, JavaScript files, movies, etc...). This space can be set up when you create a team and limited in size as you see fit.

To create a team file space:

1. Go to the Manage tab
2. Click on Teams
3. Click "Add a Team"
4. Give the team a name
5. Under "Team Tools", set the Quota to whatever size you want -- this comes out of your total quota for the course, so keep it small.
6. Click the Save button
7. Add members to the team and click "Done" when finished

After doing this, you and the students in this team will see " Files" under the Communicate Tab. You and the members of the team can create folders, create text and HTML files, or upload files. If students have a bunch of files to upload at once, they can ZIP them into a single file and upload the ZIP archive. ANGEL will
ask if you want to extract the contents of the ZIP archive after it is uploaded. All of the HTML references (to other pages, images, media files, style sheets, etc...) should be relative, not absolute.

If you want students to eventually share their work with the rest of the class, do the following:

1. Go to the Communicate Tab
2. Click "Edit Page"
3. Add the "Team Projects" component

This creates a new component on the Communicate Tab that will show links inside Team File space once the teams create a file named "default.htm" at the top level of their file space. So I would recommend having students create an entry page (that is not named "default.htm" at the beginning) and then changing the name of this file to "default.htm" when they are ready to expose their work to the rest of the class.

This is also explained in a different way in a Knowledgebase article on Team Projects:
http://angelkb.ais.psu.edu/display/1n/kb/article.asp?aid=1239