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Information Technology Services (ITS) has canceled the ANGEL upgrade to version 7.2 originally scheduled for the weekend of July 19. Testing and analysis of 7.2 indicated that the new version (and some features) may not perform robustly in our environment, and for this reason we will remain at 7.1 for the next year. During this time frame, ITS staff will work closely with the ANGEL vendor to optimize a future release to meet the needs of the growing Penn State user environment. ITS will provide periodic updates to the user community throughout the coming year.

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

Why doesn't an icon (new posts) show on my profile page when a student adds content to a discussion forum? This feature worked great in version 6.?

Without this icon, I must drill-down into the content of each course to know that a new post has been added I have not read.

Will this be corrected in v 7.2??

I'm looking to use ANGEL to create a "certificate" once a participant completes an evaluation. I would create an HTML template that would insert the participant's name in a predefined location. Has anyone tried this before?

Does anyone know the difference between the various grading options for ANGEL fill-in-the-blank questions?

Thanks,
Beth

I've devised a solution for an "Angel challenge" I experienced for some time. This little process allows me to to better segment many different Angel resources (discussion forums, documents, dropboxes etc.), that are tied to a single lesson, but appear in a long list on the page.
Similar results can be achieved with a simple file and folder structure, but for a number of reasons (I won't take time describe), I needed to do it this way. I hope this helps someone, or at least spawns other ideas on flexibility within Angel.

Watch the Screencast (created w/Jing)

Disclaimer:

Does anyone know of any scripts in ANGEL that allow for a student to upload a document to a dropbox and then choose a document to download (but only if they uploaded a document) for a peer review? An instructor in our program is looking for something like this...sort of a check in/check out feature of a drop box. Thanks!