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The following ANGELshorts and their compendium video tutorials are available to assist you with maximizing ANGEL 7.3 for teaching and learning.

ANGELshorts (Volume 3, Issue 1) Five Things Everyone Should Know about ANGEL 7.3
ANGEL 7.3 features enhancements to several existing tools and several new tools that will help course editors perform administrative tasks.
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ANGELshorts (Volume 3, Issue 2) Five Things You Should Know about the Course Mail Tool
The Course Mail tool allows students and instructors to correspond with each other without requiring the use of Internet e-mail accounts.
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ANGELshorts (Volume 3, Issue 3) Five Things You Should Know about the New HTML Editor
The HTML editor is available wherever there is a text area, including discussion forums, course mail, and quiz essay questions.
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ANGELshorts (Volume 3, Issue 4) Five Things You Should Know about Discussion Forums
Discussion forums are completely redesigned in ANGEL 7.3. There are dozens of new features designed to better facilitate teaching and learning.
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Is there a best practice for adding user created or owned video files to ANGEL?

I'm working with videos which are not on YouTube or Vimeo. I would like the video to be embedded in ANGEL, so the user does not need to download and play the file in a different tool.

Here is how I approached it and would be interested in any alternatives or better options. I would like to eliminate the code manipulation. Is there an easier or more efficient way?

Add video (.flv or mp4) and JWplayer (http://www.longtailvideo.com/players/jw-flv-player/) to PASS space.
Add embed HTML code to ANGEL page or folder.

I realize the video is not streaming, but for a small asynchronous viewing it has worked OK.

The Discussion Forum tool has undergone a lot of changes in version 7.3. One of which is the inclusion of a new tab under the forum settings called the Interaction tab. This tab combines some of the existing features of the tool along with some new features that have been added. This short video provides an overview of the Interaction tab

Yu-chang did a short movie covering the latest ANGEL Shorts topic. The Five Things Faculty Need to Know about the Action Editor. Just click on the image to open the movie.

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I gave a presentation to the e-Education Council today where the main focus was to update the council on the status of our planned upgrade to ANGEL 7.2 at the end of the spring semester. I also provided them with an update of what we're doing as far as bolstering the hardware and improving system performance. Since this is information a lot of you would also be interested in hearing, I made a brief movie out of my slides.

Presentation to the PSU e-Education Council

We've been reviewing ANGEL 7.2 in earnest in order to be prepared for our upgrade targeted for the end of the spring semester. Some of the new features we're looking forward to introducing include a Date Manager and new HTML Editor as well as re-designed mail and chat tools. Having said that, we're not finished with our testing so the feature set may change.

Yu-Chang Hsu created a movie version of ANGELshorts (Vol. 2, #1): Five Things Faculty Should Know about the Manage Tab. In the movie Yu-Chang walks you through the essential things you need to know about using the Manage tab including course settings and management features as well as , data management, tools. The movie is short, to the point, and very informative. I recommend checking it out. Let us know what you think and maybe we can make this a regular feature.

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