ANGEL WishList

What is on your ANGEL WishList?

So far, I have:

• creation of a public LOR that can be shared among faculty on ANGEL
• Various "how to" cheat sheets

I'd be most interested in your other wishlist items and things you would like to know how to do EASILY on ANGEL.

-Carrie

Just in case you forgot: How to open your LOR

If you are interested in sharing stuff from your LOR with your other courses but can't see all of your courses. You might need to do the following:

Go to your LOR.
Click the Manage tab on the top.
Click "Course and Group Access" in the Repository Access nugget.
Click "My Courses" under the Add Associations from menu on the right side.
Select the courses you wish to have accept items from your LOR.
Click the Add Selected button (and they will magically move to the left hand column).
Then click Exit.
And your problem is solved.
You will now be able to see those courses when you wish to publish info from your LOR.

-Carrie

A "How To" - Grading Discussion Forums

Not sure if you are all on the ANGEL listserv, but this was something that showed up yesterday:

Grading discussions is a two-step process. By rating a discussion, that is a quality rating of that post only. Probably you have some sort of rubric for grading quality (ex. on a 0-4 point scale). This rating provides students feedback based on that rubric. Those per-post ratings do not go into the gradebook.

In order to send grades to the gradebook on a forum, you would go to UTILITIES -- GRADE FORUM. There you will see the student’s name (if you click on their name it will bring up all posts that student has supplied to the forum, though the context in which they may have written it is lost). You will then see the number of posts each student has posted to the forum (in case your forum grade includes a quantity measure). This is followed by number of points earned and points possible (based on your rating, i.e. quality measure). Then you will find a grade column and a comments column. These are what go into the gradebook. You have to use the quantity and quality columns to assign a grade based on the number of points you have assigned to the discussion forum.

Using the CMS - an assignment

Here's one of the first assignments I'm going to give my classes this semester.

The assignment is to write a persona poem - kind of a getting to know you activity. I will be asking to utilize hyperlinks as much as possible. I just can't decide if I want it to be an in-class exercise, a homework assignment, or the first weekly journal assignment.

Here's my sample:

All About Me: A Persona Poem in hyperlinks
Carrie....
optimistic, energetic, green-eyed, grammatically correct
baker of bread
who loves coffee, her mac, and sushi
who is afraid of the sound of a balloon popping, birds, and salmonella
who wants to see Margaret Atwood in person again, the end of taxes, and another summer in Scotland
resident of an orange kitchen
.....Finn.

What do you think?

-Carrie

Linking to Content, Announcements, Discussion Forums, etc.

Quick one:
If you want to link to a section of your course AND you want it to open in a new window, you will need to go to a different spot.

Instead of using the Insert Content Link button, you would use the Insert/Edit Web Link button. You will need to "browse server" and select "map" to find the section you want to link to. Then you would need to change the target using the target tab.

This would make more sense with images.

-C

7.2, oh my!

The upgrade has taken place, and I'm logging back in for the first time. My goal: figure out the blog. Hmmm. Not sure if I like it that much.

I would really want to use this feature to create an individual blog for each student, but I'm not seeing an easy way to do that. It appears that you would create one blog and everyone would have posting rights to it. This really isn't a problem, but I do have 20 students registered for each section. That would be way too many posts. So, here are my options:

1) create an individual blog for each student making each student their own team
2) create team blogs and have students post only to their team blog
3) (this is the insane option) have one blog that each student posts a comment to

And I haven't even thought about grading these yet.....

I do, however, love the inline HTML editor. It's much easier!

-Carrie

surprise it works!

I met with you know who yesterday and one of the things we talked about was the use of icons. She was "blown away" (her words!) by the fact that using our personal file area to store images worked! She couldn't believe that students would be able to see it and was (a bit smugly) going to show me that they couldn't see any of the icons I had added by giving me a test student again. But, oh my, the icons DID show up for students.

She told me repeatedly that I should put them in my LOR or add them to the file for each individual class. I asked her how we could navigate to the LOR from the "icon URL" browse option. That didn't seem to be possible. So she showed me how to use the LOR to use icons and I asked why anyone would do that when the other way works and is MUCH easier. She kept saying she couldn't believe it worked because that area is supposed to be similar to our "W" drives and only accessible by the individual instructor. I asked then why would the browse option direct you to that area?

To be fair she did help me reduce the size of one icon that was life size previously. Her son Luke was there and I think he was working on HCC classes. He asked a question and the conversation sounded like (but remember I can't hear) she was giving him directions to input class data! I didn't address that but I am not thrilled about a child having ANY thing to do with our classes.

Over all I think I gave her more information than she gave me. She answered some questions but her methodology was so convoluted I am not sure I could repeat it if I wanted to.