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A recording of the 8/27 ANGEL Town Hall: 5 Things a Faculty Member needs to know about ANGEL 7.1 is now available though training services. The town hall provided an in-depth exploration of the new ANGEL interface.

Faculty and support staff are cordially invited to attend the next ANGEL Town Hall on Tuesday, September 11 from 1:00-3:30 p.m.

If students or instructors see "???" instead of a French or Spanish accent, they may need to switch encoding to Western/ISO-8859-1/Latin-1.

To switch encoding:

1. In the browser, go to the View menu and select Character Encoding (Firefox), Encoding (Internet Explorer) or Text Encoding (Safari).
Note: In Internet Explorer 7, you must right-click on the page to see the Encoding option.

2. Select the option for Western (ISO-8859-1) [Firefox], Western European [Internet Explorer], or Western (ISO Latin 1) [Safari].

Note: This problem appears to be more likely on a Mac, but can happen to Windows students who have been viewing non-English sites.

Faculty who use or plan to use Penn State's Course Management System, ANGEL (http://cms.psu.edu/), are encouraged to take advantage of several upcoming opportunities to learn more about ANGEL.

I like the "history" theme for one of my courses, but want to remove the "bust" from the background of the main content area. Does anyone know what that area is called in v7? I know how to edit a theme, but can't figure out which setting is responsible for that main area.

-Annie

ANGEL Shorts are one-page documents covering a specific point of interest in ANGEL. They cover the 5 most essential things you need to know about the topic in order to maximize its use. The aim is to help faculty, staff, and students maximize the value of using ANGEL as a teaching tool.

Vol. 1, #1. June, '07. "The Five Things Faculty Should Know About ANGEL 7"

Vol. 1, #2. June, '07. "The Five Things Students Should Know About ANGEL 7"

Note: The handouts and class files for the "Start Using ANGEL in Your Course Right Away" seminar are now available online at the ANGEL: Penn State's Course Management System page on the ITS Training Services site to access these materials.