ANGEL Community Hub

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.

Editors can customize how discussion forums are sorted

In the Discussion Forums component on the course Communicate tab, previously, discussion forums were listed in alphabetical order, and this could not be changed. Following the update, there will now be an edit (pencil icon) button in the component’s title bar, allowing course editors to customize how the forums are displayed. The display can be customized in three ways:

• Discussion forums can be sorted in the order in which they appear on the Lessons tab (default), alphabetically, or by their start date.
• By default, the path, or Lessons tab folder structure, is displayed beneath the title of each forum. You can choose to hide this, if desired.
• By default, the subtitle of each forum is displayed (if one has been added). You can choose to hide this, if desired.

Content item tracking data is only available if you turn on User Tracking

A course editor can choose to set each Lessons tab content item to have User Tracking disabled (default) or specify tracking for users with a specific rights level, such as “Students only” or “All enrolled users.” This is specified on the Access tab within the item’s settings. Previous to the update, even if user tracking was disabled for an item, in the case of some types of content, such as quizzes, the course editor could still see who had accessed the item. This could be seen by viewing the Activity Detail report, either within the individual content item or on the course Report tab by selecting the Content, Activity Detail report for the item. Following the update, this will no longer be the case. Therefore, if you are a course editor and wish to be able to determine which users have accessed an item, you must turn on User Tracking in the item’s settings.

If you have any questions, e-mail angelsupport@psu.edu.