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ANGELshorts Vol. 3, Issue #1 Five Things You Should Know about Discussion Forums is now available.

From the article:
"Discussion forums are completely redesigned in ANGEL 7.3. There are dozens of new features designed to better facilitate teaching and learning as well as reduce the amount of time required for instructors to manage them. A discussion forum is added on the Lessons tab. It also appears in the Discussion Forums component on the Communicate tab by default."

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ANGELshorts Vol. 3, Issue #3 Five Things You Should Know about the New HTML Editor is now available.

From the article:
"The HTML editor is available wherever there is a text area, including discussion forums, course mail, and quiz essay questions. The HTML editor is a WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) editor that allows you to quickly create or edit formatted online content without knowledge of HTML (Hypertext Markup Language)."

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ANGELshorts Vol. 3, Issue #2 Five Things You Should Know about the Course Mail

From the article:
"The Course Mail tool allows students and instructors to correspond with each other without requiring the use of Internet e-mail accounts. It provides access to the new HTML editor, supports adding attachments and forwarding to Internet e-mail addresses, and allows the sender and recipients to monitor who has read a message."

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Please pass this on to all who use ANGEL for graded quizzes.

If you are going to embed a video in a quiz question that the quizzee MUST watch to answer the question, please provide alternative links to said video, and an alternative way to get at the required info - like a text transcript.

I just watched my daughter wait 30 minutes for a video to load in an ANGEL quiz. Good grief.

I've created an LOR titled "Education Technology Resources." It will hold, among other things, student tutorials on a variety of ed tech, starting with an introduction to podcasting.

Problem is, you can't access an LOR from within a group, so any students wishing to use the LOs in the LOR within their own groups can't do so.

I was hoping this would not be the case in 7.3, but it is. Any suggestions on alternatives?

Any one tried to send an email but don't see it in the Sent box? A student report this. I tested in my dev. space and it's true. Is there an Angel setting that can solve this?

ANGELshorts Vol. 3, Issue #1 Five Things Everyone Should Know about ANGEL 7.3 is now available.

From the article:
"On May 16, Information Technology Services upgraded Penn State's Course Management System, ANGEL, to version 7.3. The new version features enhancements to several existing tools and several new tools that will help course editors perform administrative tasks. There are also several minor interface changes."

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