Introduction to ANGELIntroduction to ANGEL

Ron CostelloInstructional Design SpecialistPenn State AbingtonRJC35@psu.eduwww.personal.psu.edu/rjc35215-881-7374

SyllabusSyllabusA good place to

start is by adding your course syllabus for easy student reference

Simply click on the Syllabus tab, then click on “edit syllabus”

Angel makes it easy to cut and paste the components of your syllabus into defined fields

The CalendarThe Calendar

The Calendar Feature

You can choose to add all scheduled lectures, exams, trips, etc, into the calendar so its easily accessible to your students

Adding EventsAdding Events

Click on “Add” and fill in the appropriate fields for you events

Manage & Organize Your Manage & Organize Your ContentContent

Create Folders to organize all of the aspects of your course

This can be done under the “add content” menu

Adding ContentAdding Content

Begin by creating folders

Suggestions: Lectures, Quizzes, Course Materials, Assignments

LecturesLecturesInclude…PowerPoint

Presentations from class

Graphics, Images used in lectures

Links to Web Resources

Assignment Drop BoxesAssignment Drop BoxesOne drop box per

assignmentCan limit

students to only submitting one assignment per box

Can allow students to only view their own submissions

Adding ContentAdding Content

Submission OptionsSubmission Options

Course MaterialsCourse MaterialsThis can be a

valuable way to organize supplemental materials such as…

Student projectsWorksheets /

PDFsWeb Resources

Collaborative SpaceCollaborative SpaceClasses can be

divided into groups

Groups can have their own forums in Angel to post text and materials to collaborate on group work or discuss course subject matter

DISCUSSION FORUMSDISCUSSION FORUMS

AttendanceAttendanceThe attendance

feature is located under the resources tab

You can give the students a pin, to mark themselves present…or do it manually

Preview ToolPreview ToolThe preview tool

allows the user to change their view to see what the student will see

Click on the “sunglasses” icon to change your view to preview mode

CommunicateCommunicate

The communicate tab allows you to send an email out to everyone in the course, and allows you to read messages students send to you through Angel

Get Angel Messages Get Angel Messages Forwarded to Your PSU EmailForwarded to Your PSU Email

This can be done selecting the tools menu, then clicking on “System Settings”

ANGEL GradebookANGEL Gradebook

Angel ResourcesAngel ResourcesPenn State’s ITS department published a

comprehensive “how to” for ANGELhttps://its.psu.edu/training/handouts/angel/

71_gs.pdf