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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, December 12 until 6:00 a.m. Saturday, December 19. These tools include the Copy Course, import Content Package, import Master Course, and export ANGEL Archive functions. Note: During finals week, instructors can continue to create course content and create master courses and learning object repositories. Students can continue to upload/download files and access lesson content.

I have been struggling with getting my gradebook to "assign" an additional X points to my students, after re-evaluating an assignment. This would be a tide intended to lift all ships, so it would seem the Formula Editor would be the way to go.

I enter what would seem to me to be the appropriate function:
{ASSIGNMENT:USER:SCORE}

and modify it to add (let's say) 8 points, so it then reads:
{ASSIGNMENT:USER:SCORE} + 8

It was giving me far more points than I am giving, and it depends on the original score (but I can't figure out exactly what yet. A score of 77.94, for instance, ends up well into the 8000's).

After digging around, I found a link that explained it a bit better. (http://www.personal.psu.edu/exe136/faqs/formulas.htm)

I am working with an instructor on a course that uses 90 min, timed quizzes. The quizzes are available during a short, 30 min window of opportunity. Some of the settings for the quiz are:
• disabled time warning under "Time settings"
• "Automatically submit when time limit expires" is selected
• Max attempts = 1
• "Warn about incomplete items" is selected
• auto save is disabled
• "Do not allow users to save and finish later" is selected
• Full Review is selected

The problem we're having is, say a student logs on 1 minute before the quiz closes and they complete the quiz before the 90 min and submit it, ANGEL shows the results as expected...

For a long time, I have always believed that if a number of assignments are lumped under one category, and if there are more than one category in the gradebook, those assignments must bear equal number of max points or the calculation would not be correct. It seems that there are exceptions.

Exception 1: there is only one category called "course grade" and the gradebook is in "point" mode.
Exception 2: there are more than one category, and the gradebook can be of "point" or "percentage" mode, but the weight of each category are numbers in terms of points, such as "auto-calculate." That is the last line on the Category screen shows the total points of the course (such as 600) and 100%.

Any others?

1) When using ANGEL mail, I see folks are recommending always using the View Inbox within a course (rather than Quick Message) and this will probably side-step the problem I keep running into with faculty as well... but was also wondering if there is a fix for this...

On 2 different computers on campus, when faculty were trying to use the Quick Message "To" feature - when the pop-up opens, the "OK" button that lets you go back to compose the message is off the screen - and when I try to drag it up a little just to get to the "OK" it just snaps back where it was and you can't get to it without using the tab button to tab through options - even then you can't tell if you are actually on the OK button becasue you can't see it...

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.

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.