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.
Second, faculty are reporting that all text they type and/or paste into the default template is automatically single-spaced. This seems to be the opposite of typing and/or pasting text into a Page on the Lessons tab where it is all automatically double-spaced. I found a related article #1556 in the kb, but after I read it I knew I couldn't email that to faculty since it was confusing to me. It tells you what to do if you're using IE, but then there's something additional to know if you get a popup. It's different if you're using Firefox because you'll lose some formatting, and you really don't want to be doing it with Firefox on a Mac since you'll lose all formatting. Is there an easier way for faculty to tell the HTML editor when they want something single-spaced or double-spaced without clicking so many buttons?
Comments
Printing
We opened an issue for the missing print link on the syllabus tab. There is an article in the knowledgebase for printing and you should be able to find it by searching on the word "print." That article is in the process of being rewritten (by me, actually). I'll include workaround for the syllabus printing issue.
I'm not sure what you're describing with single and double spacing. Could you please email ANGEL Support about that? Include screenshots of what you see in both areas.
Printing
The print option is also missing form the attendance screen.
Printing attendance
Manage > Attendance doesn't have a print link, nor did it in ANGEL 7.1. I think it's really intended for data entry rather than data extraction (the Report tab is intended for that). We'll open an issue for that, but ANGEL Learning will probably consider it an enhancement request rather than a bug. I'm not saying I agree, I'm just being realistic.
I have three workarounds for you for printing.
1. Print using the Report tab. I've found some problems here that ANGEL Learning will need to fix, so this might not be useful for you.
2. Export the attendance into Excel and print there. You may want to use a pivot table or otherwise reformat the data.
3. Create a new bookmark in your web browser. Name it "print" or something similar. In the Location field paste the following:
javascript:window.frames['AngelContent'].print();
View the attendance page, then click that bookmark. This should work for the syllabus tab as well provided that the syllabus is in HTML format. Actually, it should work most places in ANGEL.
This probably isn't what you want to hear, but hopefully it's helpful for you.