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I know that Angel system can automatically group students into teams based on their response to a survey but don't know how to write the action scripts. Also, looks like I can only add action scripts at the survey level but not question level.

Does anyone know the action scripts? Thanks.

For example, I want the system to assign students choosing answer A to team one and those choosing answer B to team two.

Q: What do you prefer for your supper tonight?
A. pasta
B. pizza
C. soup
D. nothing

I have quite a few inquiries lately about courses reaching and exceeding their file size limits therefore making it impossible for students to submit homework to drop boxes. I have been told to introduce LOR's to faculty who are facing this issue.

Has the file sizes of courses changed?

Are LOR's the only solution?

Should we be alerting faculty about this before it happens to make sure it does not happen?

I just want to express my extreme frustration and anger about the problems on ANGEL today. I had an entire day set aside to do a lot of my grading and receiving of papers through ANGEL and it has been a miserable failure due to the technical problems with the ANGEL system.

I am sure all the right people are working hard to fix the problem, but I really bought into ANGEL this semester thinking that I could easily give comments to my students and track all their grades online. It is unacceptable to have such a major system failure at this time.

Have you used the “post type” feature within a discussion forum? When you are creating a discussion forum, you can create post types, i.e., different roles, or personas, participants will assume when posting a message.

The Default settings (everyone can Read a post, make a new post, and reply to a post) are automatically populated when you create a new discussion forum. They are also remained populated in existing discussion forums when we migrated to 7.1. However, these fields do not automatically populate when message boards are converted to discussion forums. If this is the case the instructor will need to go in and select the default settings option.

For example, I import content from a course I taught last fall ('06) when I used message boards into a course I am preparing to teach this fall ('07). After I upload the content into my course I will need to go into the discussion forum settings and select the settings I want the students to have. Note: It is important the all three default settings be selected (read, post, reply) if that is what you instructor want.

Firefox, Mozilla, and Netscape users may find that grades entered for discussion forums in the "Grade Forum" tool are not saved or shown in either the Discussion forum utilities or the gradebook. This issue will be resolved in a future update to ANGEL. As a workaround, if using Firefox, Mozilla, or Netscape, please enter your grades directly in the gradebook (the grades will stick there where they matter most). Another option is to use Internet Explorer until the issue is resolved.

FYI - If you are wondering if an ANGEL message board needs to be converted to the new format, look at the icon

* Blue flag = old message board (convert)
* Red flag = new discussion forum (good to go)

To convert a message board to a discussion forum:

1. Log on to ANGEL at http://cms.psu.edu/ and enter the course.
2. Open the message board on the course "Lessons" tab.
3. Select the "Utilities" link in the toolbar.
4. Select the "Migrate Message Board" link.
5. Read the information provided, then click the "Migrate Data" button.
6. When you see the confirmation message, select the "Continue" link.