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ANGELshorts Vol. 2, Issue #6 Five Things Instructors Should Know about Downloading All Drop Box Submissions is now available.

From the article:
"Drop boxes provide an area for students to submit assignments electronically. You can then review and grade these assignments either by viewing them in your Web browser or downloading them to your desktop. However, did you know that as an alternative to downloading each drop box submission separately, you could download all drop box submissions simultaneously?"

The ANGEL Quizzing Team, comprised of instructors and instructional support staff from around Penn State, is focused on exploring new and powerful ways to use ANGEL Quizzes. In particular, the team identified several potential areas of growth regarding the use of ANGEL quizzes. These areas include the opportunity for instructors to (1) increase the use of question banks and question pools, e,g, materials from publishers, (2) incorporate third party applications such as Captivate and Softchalk, and (3) embed multimedia files (images, sounds and movie clips) into quiz questions.

ANGELshorts Vol. 2, Issue #4 Five Things Faculty Should Know about Publishing Final Grades is now available.

From the article:
"When preparing to submit grades for a course while in eLion, instructors have the option of pulling in the “published” final grades for their students in their ANGEL course. If you have been using the ANGEL gradebook throughout the semester, this feature could save you having to manually enter a grade in eLion for each student."

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ANGELshorts Vol. 2, Issue #3 Five Things Faculty Should Know about the Action Editor is now available.

From the article:
"The Action Editor, available for content items on the Lessons tab, provides an advanced tool that allows you to define actions to be taken when certain events and conditions occur. For example, an action could be defined to allow a student to gain access to previously locked material (an action) after the submission of a quiz (an event) only if their quiz grade was above 80 percent (the condition)."

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ANGELshorts Vol. 2, Issue #2 Five Things Faculty Should Know about the Manage Tab is now available.

From the article:
"The course Resources tab is the central location for information concerning the course. It combines the functionality of the course welcome page available in previous versions of ANGEL with other course resource tools, such as the Penn State Library Tools. Instructors can customize the Resources tab to best meet the needs of their course by adding various components via the Edit Page link in the toolbar."

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You can also watch a brief movie of this ANGELshort created by Yu Chang Hsu.

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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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ANGELshorts Vol. 2, Issue #1 Five Things Faculty Should Know about the Manage Tab is now available.

From the article:
"In ANGEL 7.1, the Manage tab replaces the Tools tab found in earlier versions. The Manage tab houses the Management Console, which is comprised of common course management tools to help you manage students, grades, and attendance. Additionally, this is where you will find the course settings tools that enable you to alter a variety of environment settings and data management tools that allow you to back up and restore, import and export, and manage files."

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