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
Monday, August 20, 2007
ANGEL WishList
What is on your ANGEL WishList?
So far, I have:
So far, I have:
Friday, August 17, 2007
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
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.
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.
Wednesday, August 15, 2007
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
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
)){kind=link}
)){kind=link}
baker of bread
who loves coffee, her mac, and sushi
)){kind=link}
)){kind=link}
)){kind=link}
who is afraid of the sound of a balloon popping, birds, and salmonella
)){kind=link}
)){kind=link}
)){kind=link}
who wants to see Margaret Atwood in person again, the end of taxes, and another summer in Scotland
)){kind=link}
resident of an orange kitchen
)){kind=link}
.....Finn.
What do you think?
-Carrie
Thursday, August 9, 2007
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
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
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
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