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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.

Previously in ANGEL, an instructor could send an email out to the class, and see who opened it and when. I do not see that option in 7.3. Is it still there somewhere?

The following ANGELshorts and their compendium video tutorials are available to assist you with maximizing ANGEL 7.3 for teaching and learning.

ANGELshorts (Volume 3, Issue 1) Five Things Everyone Should Know about ANGEL 7.3
ANGEL 7.3 features enhancements to several existing tools and several new tools that will help course editors perform administrative tasks.
Download the PDF
Watch the video

ANGELshorts (Volume 3, Issue 2) Five Things You Should Know about the Course Mail Tool
The Course Mail tool allows students and instructors to correspond with each other without requiring the use of Internet e-mail accounts.
Download the PDF
Watch the video

ANGELshorts (Volume 3, Issue 3) Five Things You Should Know about the New HTML Editor
The HTML editor is available wherever there is a text area, including discussion forums, course mail, and quiz essay questions.
Download the PDF
Watch the video

ANGELshorts (Volume 3, Issue 4) Five Things You Should Know about Discussion Forums
Discussion forums are completely redesigned in ANGEL 7.3. There are dozens of new features designed to better facilitate teaching and learning.
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Watch the video

Update: this update was applied to ANGEL on August 19.

We're planning an update to ANGEL that will make three noticeable changes. Details are available by clicking the Read More link. If you have any questions or concerns about how this will affect you, please contact ANGEL Support.

This update is tentatively scheduled for Wednesday, August 19. It will be the last scheduled update planned for ANGEL until late September, so no new changes will be introduced before the start of the fall semester.

In the past, ANGEL Support has posted notes here after an update was applied. Due to changing roles and time constraints that hasn't happened a while.

We've received feedback from the ANGEL community that updates sometimes bring unexpected changes in functionality and can be disruptive. The ANGEL team takes this feedback seriously. We're going to try something new to help address this concern and post a note here about upcoming updates before they happen. We can't guarantee that this will happen for every update; sometimes a change needs to be pushed to ANGEL urgently to correct an issue, or we may not have enough lead time on an update to get together a notice, or staff may not be available to post something.

I am having a problem with extra HTML code showing up in the feedback textbox when I am grading an exam. Whenever I go to Utilities --> View, Grade, or Delete Submissions --> Grade (by someone's name)... i see the questions of the exam, as well as extra code in the feedback box (see attached image). I am having to delete it for each student and then type in my comments. Anyone know how to prevent this code from showing up?