Administrative Tools

ANGEL makes system administration easy by anticipating your needs and providing a comprehensive administrative toolset that simplifies complex administrative tasks. You can control every aspect of the ANGEL system through ANGEL’s simple and intuitive Administrator Console.

Role-Based System Administration

ANGEL’s role-based system administration allows you to create multiple administrative roles for different members of your team. System administrators can allocate tasks and scale their team with the environment.

Batch Operations

Create accounts and enroll users in courses automatically using data from virtually any delimited file. The Batch Enrollment Wizard guides you through the data import process, identifying users who do not have accounts and creating accounts for them. Users who have accounts are enrolled with their existing user IDs. You can automatically send a custom email, complete with username, password and ID to users with new accounts and send enrollment notification to users who already have accounts.

ANGEL provides for a variety of additional batch operations to help you more effectively manage accounts, courses, content repositories, and groups. The system provides for batch account, course and section deletes; section backups; and imports from other LMS systems.

Text and Database Imports

ANGEL Text Import Wizard and ODBC Import Wizard can import data from a text-delimited file or from an ODBC database on another system into any ANGEL table. ANGEL’s import flexibility allows data in nearly any format to be easily synchronized with ANGEL. Use the import wizards to import calendar information, process drop/add files, update personnel files and integrate third-party systems.

Archive and Restore Courses

ANGEL archive and restore tools keep your database free of clutter. They allow you to archive courses and retrieve individual courses without having to restore the entire database of all courses. When an instructor needs information from a deleted course, you can easily retrieve that particular course.

Blackboard™, WebCT™ and IMS Imports

ANGEL import tools ease the transition to ANGEL from other systems. Batch import tools create course shells and populate the shells with content from other systems’ cartridges. The ability to convert all courses from other Learning Management Systems, like Blackboard or WebCT, in a single task removes the course transition burden from instructors and designers.

ANGEL also supports imports from the IMS Global Learning Consortium’s Common Cartridge format. ANGEL was the first commercial LMS to support this important content standard.

Create Reports

ANGEL extends the reports and utilities provided for lesson resources such as assessments and surveys. It allows seamless integration of your custom reports and utilities with preconfigured reports. Custom reports and utilities are on the same pages as the standard items so customizations do not compromise environment usability.  ANGEL’s open database structure also allows you to connect third party reporting tools, such as Business Objects, Microsoft Reporting Services or Crystal Reports to the ANGEL database to run deeper analytical reports.

SQL Query Manager

ANGEL enables you to quickly and easily get information from your database either ad hoc or on your schedule. What is the most active course? Who are the most active users? Type in an ad hoc query against your database to retrieve this or any other type of information. Queries can be saved and can include parameters. A saved query can be run at any time by simply selecting it from a list.

Domain Management

With ANGEL, you can easily configure multiple domains for branding or for partitioning the system in a large institution or consortium. You can configure these sites with different security, display, and communication settings. This allows each site to operate largely on their own without requiring separate hardware and overhead. For large consortiums, you can create new domains from existing settings, making deployment of large scale installations much easier.

XEI Agents

ANGEL XEI (Extended Enterprise Integration) automates the interchange of data between ANGEL and other enterprise systems in your environment. ANGEL’s Administrator Console allows you to create or modify the agents that control the data interchange through the XEI Agents Manager.