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Here is an email I received from a faculty:

"Very often, in fact I'd say most of the time, when I try to download or
export a file from ANGEL at home, I get a Message Box saying "Getting File
Information Default.asp from cms.psu.edu. It just sits there, I've waited 15
minutes at times before cancelling. Today, I wanted to export the responses to
a survey. I have not had this happen at Behrend. I am connected to the
Internet via Roadrunner using a cable modem. This is seriously affecting my
ability to use ANGEL. "

He had tried the following as adviced by ANGEL Support:
1) Disable any and all firewalls. This includes window's firewall and/or
any 3rd party firewall you may be using. Once disabled, please try to access
ANGEL again. - No luck.

I posted a draft of the next ANGELshort under the Innovative Quizzing tab. The topic concerns the placement and use of various media objects within an ANGEL quiz. I also posted two short videos. The first video demonstrates how to embed a movie clip into a quiz and the second video demonstrates how to preview the question.

To read the draft:
What an Instructor Should Know about Using Media in a Quiz

To watch the embedding video:
How to Embed a Video into a Quiz

To watch the previewing video:
Previewing a Question with an Embedded Video

To optimize the performance of Penn State's Course Management System, ANGEL, during fall finals week, the Import Wizard and Export Wizard tools will be turned off from 4:00 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 13 until 6:00 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 20. These tools include the Copy Course, import Content Package, import Master Course, and export ANGEL Archive functions. The tools for importing and exporting individual lesson content items between courses and groups will be turned off as well. These are only temporary changes to improve ANGEL performance during the period of intense usage associated with finals week.

I saw a gradebook built like the following:

I have a course that is based on a Master Course. The import was done from the dev. space and everything seems ok except when I click on a discussion forum I get an error message.
"An error has occurred on the server. "

This happens on every discussion forum in the course. It was not a problem during the fall semester.

Any advice on what to do next? I was thinking maybe delete them and copy from the Fall section...

Does anyone have any suggestions for handling peer evaluations in Angel?

I have an instructor who has issues each term with the images in her ANGEL quizzes showing up/not showing up. Almost always the images will show up for students if she tells them to right-click on the area the image is supposed to be and select show image (or something of the sort). But this time, it isn't working for the student.

For example this student sees graphics for certain questions, but not for others when she right clicks and selects "show picture." However, the instructor and I can see the graphics.

What are some possible reasons for the images not working...and why the inconsistencies?

Thanks.