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Faculty and staff are invited to attend the ANGEL Town Hall: An In-Depth Look at the ANGEL Assessment Tool on Wednesday, June 2 from 10:00 a.m.-noon in 116 Wagner Building, University Park or via an Adobe Connect videoconference. The session will cover the conversion from quizzes to assessments, which replaced quizzes when ANGEL was upgraded to version 7.4 the weekend of May 15. It will feature a panel of staff familiar with the assessment tool, who will provide recommendations on making the transition to assessments as smooth as possible. Topics will include known issues and workarounds, where applicable. To register, visit http://its.psu.edu/training/.

To help you prepare for the upgrade to ANGEL 7.4, we've released several ANGELshorts, in pdf and video format, covering the key features you need to know about.

ANGELshorts Vol. 4 Issue 1: Five Things You Need to Know about ANGEL 7.4
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ANGELshorts Vol. 4 Issue 2: Five Things You Need to Know about the Merged Roster Manager
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ANGELshorts Vol. 4 Issue 3: Five Things You Need to Know about the Survey Tool
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ANGELshorts Vol. 4 Issue 4: Five Things You Need to Know About the Grading Rubric
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Kate Twoey, Instructional Production Specialist for World Campus Learning Design, recorded a very informative video on master source questions and how they function in Assessments. This video contains very important information pertaining to how questions are stored in ANGEL and how changes to the master question can have impact in multiple courses--even if you did not mean it to. Due to length, the video is broken down into two parts. Below is the first part detailing how master source questions work and the potential ramifications of making changes to these questions.

Faculty and staff are invited to attend the upcoming ANGEL classes including ANGEL: Start Using ANGEL in Your Course Right Away and ANGEL: Course Gradebook. Details follow, along with links to register for both the face-to-face and online offerings. Many more classes on technologies used for teaching and learning are also available via http://its.psu.edu/training/ .

ANGEL: Start Using ANGEL in Your Course Right Away
Date: Monday May 10th, 2010
Time: 8:30-10:30am
Location: 116 Wagner
Description: ANGEL is Penn State's Course Management System. It allows instructors to share a variety of materials with students via the Web. This hands-on training session is geared toward faculty who want to start using ANGEL in a course but are not sure where to start.

Instructors should strongly encourage students to complete pending ANGEL quiz and survey submissions prior to May 14 at 6:00 p.m. Eastern Time when the upgrade to ANGEL version 7.4 begins. A pending submission is one that a student has begun and saved answers for, but not completed and submitted.

During the upgrade, quizzes will be converted to assessments and surveys will be converted to the new survey tool that mirrors the assessment tool. At that time, pending quiz and survey submissions will not be converted to pending submissions within the new tools. Answers saved within pending submissions prior to May 14 at 6:00 p.m. cannot be submitted in version 7.4. After the upgrade, students who had pending submissions will need to begin the assessment or survey over again.

This presentation on the changes to content Import and Export is courtesy of Louise Sharrar. Louise is an Instructional Production Specialist for World Campus Learning Design, a member of our documentation team, and all-around good egg.The video is broken into two parts, approximately 5 minutes each. The first explores the changes to the Export process.

This second video covers the changes to the Import process.

Faculty and staff are invited to attend the ANGEL Town Hall: An In-Depth Look at the ANGEL Assessment Tool on May 12 from 1:00-3:00 p.m. in 201 Thomas Building, University Park or via an Adobe Connect videoconference. The session will cover the conversion from quizzes to assessments, which will replace quizzes when ANGEL is upgraded to version 7.4 the weekend of May 15. It will feature a panel of staff familiar with the assessment tool, who will provide recommendations on making the transition from quizzes to assessments as smooth as possible. Topics will include known issues and workarounds, where applicable. In addition, on May 11 at 8:30 a.m., a lecture and demonstration on how to use the assessment tool entitled ANGEL: Getting to Know the ANGEL Assessment Tool, will be offered in 173 Willard Building, University Park. To register for either session, visit http://its.psu.edu/training/.