Room Northwestern
ANGEL LMS 7.4: Integrating Rich Media
Dave Mills & Brent Mundy
ANGEL Learning
This seminar will focus on the new content mashups and RSS feeds available in the ANGEL LMS 7.4 and how to integrate web-based rich media. Key areas of focus will include using the mashup nugget for integrating rich media, using the HTML editor to add rich-media content to a course, and new RSS integration capabilities.
Audience Type: General User, ANGEL Version: 7.4
Room Purdue
ANGEL's New Evergreen Training
Erin Cassell & Debbie Dillow
ANGEL Learning
This seminar will provide an overview of ANGEL's new Evergreen Training offering: unlimited, on-demand training for faculty and administration within an institution's own ANGEL implementation. A key topic will be how to use Evergreen Training for effective change management in building ANGEL capacity over time. We will use the Discussions Forum module as an example.
Audience Type: General User, ANGEL Version: 7.4
1:00-1:45 pm
Room Northwestern
Integrating Google Docs and ANGEL for Collaborative Bliss
Chris Filkins & Steve Warszawski
Canisius College
Schools can harness the capabilities of Google Docs to provide a set of collaborative tools for students, which can be easily integrated into ANGEL - no programming required!
Audience Type: General User, ANGEL Version: 7.3
Room Purdue
Using Actions to Teach Actions
Pam Caudill & Jana Hickey
Jefferson County Public Schools
Come experience how actions are taught online in one school district. Actions can be a tricky topic to teach. By allowing participants to experience a variety of actions, then showing the behind the scenes setup, the end user has confidence to automate their content.
Audience Type: Intermediate User, ANGEL Version: 7.2
2:00-2:45 pm
Room Northwestern
ANGEL Cosmetics
Bill Yarrow
Joliet Jr. College
Learn in this hands-on session how to customize the appearance of your ANGEL class to reduce confusion and make course navigation easier for your students: customize your icons, color code your calendar and gradebook, and emphasize important assignments and instructions. Transform the appearance of your course and help reduce student frustration.
Audience Type: Intermediate User, ANGEL Version: 7.3
Room Purdue
Using ANGEL Learning Isle with Second Life
Second Life Steering Committee with Nancy Schmutzler from ANGEL
This seminar will provide an overview of how to use Second Life in concert with the ANGEL LMS to advance teaching and learning. Key areas of focus include building an avatar, navigating around Second Life, how to use the ANGEL Learning Isle, and a preview of the upcoming ANGEL dropbox.
Audience Type: General User, ANGEL Version: ANGEL Learning Isle
3:00-3:45 pm
Presentations during this time are part of the Partner Presentations.
4:00-4:45 pm
Room Northwestern
ANGEL LMS 7.4 Content Management: Using the LOR
Phill Miller & John Sheringer
ANGEL Learning
This seminar will focus on the improvements made to ANGEL LMS 7.4's content management capabilities and how to integrate them into a "best practices" content management approach. Key areas of focus include the new content types of surveys, rubrics, and lesson plans; new search capabilities; and improvements to submission storage in the course and the LOR.
Audience Type: Intermediate User, ANGEL Version: 7.4
Room Purdue
Using Rubrics in ANGEL LMS 7.4
Brent Mundy & Dave Mills
ANGEL Learning
This seminar will focus on the new grading rubrics available in the ANGEL LMS 7.4 and how to effectively manage manually graded items. Key areas of focus will include creating a rubric, leveraging learning object repository enhancements, grading manually graded content items, and working with the new gradebook interface.
Audience Type: Intermediate User, ANGEL Version: 7.4
10:45-11:30 am
Room Northwestern
Making Assessments Work for You
Jeffrey Parsons
Lindsey Wilson College
This presentation will outline key features of ANGEL 7.3 assessments. The presentation will cover differences between assessments and surveys, creating assessments, editing assessments, assessment settings, using question sets, item analysis, and use of question banks.
Audience Type: New User, ANGEL Version: 7.3
Room Purdue
Using Macros to Store and Share Dynamic Content
Phylise Banner
SUNY Learning Network
Looking for ways to store code snippets? Not all reusable content should go in the LOR! This session will explore the use of the macro function in the HTML editor to store and share dynamic content from external sources in the form of embed codes, javascript and iframe elements.
Audience Type: Intermediate User, ANGEL Version: 7.3
1:00-1:45 pm
Room Northwestern
Key Changes to the ANGEL 7.4 Gradebook
Melanie Bartlett & Edie Woods
Macomb Community College
ANGEL 7.4 offers a new optional gradebook. The presenters will share experiences and provide an orientation to the gradebook and review the new interface and usability improvements. This program will specifically focus on flexible terms, improved set up, single interface, and reporting summary.
Audience Type: General User, ANGEL Version: 7.4
Room Purdue
Converting Quizzes to Assessments? Don't Panic!
Stephanie Greathouse
JCPSeSchool
Did you realize ANGEL 7.4 does not support quizzes? Have you avoided assessments since ANGEL 7.0? Does understanding assessments seem overwhelming and totally time consuming? Now is your chance to take on those assessments loaded with the know-how and expertise you've been looking for. Join us as we attacked assessments head-on.
Audience Type: Intermediate User, ANGEL Version: 7.3
2:00-2:45 pm
Room Northwestern
ANGEL LMS 7.4 Course Reports: ANGEL's Course Reporting Framework
John Purcell & Minhong Cai
ANGEL Learning
This presentation will take a deep dive into the inner workings of the ANGEL LMS 7.4’s course reporting framework, showing participants how to configure reports in the reports tab. Key areas of focus will include an overview of the database tables used to support the framework, how to modify an existing report, how to create a new report from a SQL query, and controlling access to reports. The subject matter is targeted at ANGEL administrators with at least intermediate SQL abilities. We will be using ANGEL’s SQL Query Manager tool to insert and update records in the database. We will NOT cover general ANGEL's database structure or how to write queries for specific data in the ANGEL database.
Audience Type: Advanced User, ANGEL Version: 7.4
Room Purdue
ANGEL's New Evergreen Training
Erin Cassell & Debbie Dillow
ANGEL Learning
This seminar will provide an overview of ANGEL's new Evergreen Training offering: unlimited, on-demand training for faculty and administration within an institution's own ANGEL implementation. A key topic will be how to use Evergreen Training for effective change management in building ANGEL capacity over time. We will use the Discussions Forum module as an example.
Audience Type: General User, ANGEL Version: 7.4