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ANGEL to Blackboard Migration Delayed
Blackboard announced in late March that ANGEL would be extended as a product “indefinitely”. This announcement, while lacking in many details, impacts our planned migration to Blackboard originally slated to begin in 2013. We anticipate that further details regarding ongoing ANGEL support and any potential enhancements will emerge after the Blackboard World user conference in [...]
ANGEL Version 8 Upgrade August 20-21
SLN will be upgrading SUNY Oswego’s ANGEL instance to version 8 on August 20-21st. ANGEL will not be available during this time frame. Please plan accordingly. One of the biggest advantages for upgrading to version 8 is compatibility with Apple’s Safari and Google’s Chrome browsers. There are also enhancements to dropboxes, discussion forum rubrics, the [...]
Web Conferencing Options
Have you ever wished you could bring a remote speaker to your class? Ever wanted to conduct an online meeting with people from afar? Teach a class online with a synchronous component? If so, there are a couple of options available to you. CTS has been working on making two different web-conferencing services available. They [...]
Using Textbook Resources in ANGEL
Recently, the SUNY Learning Network (SLN) negotiated a contract with McGraw-Hill (MH) to allow all SUNY campuses access to the MH Campus “nugget” within ANGEL. When enabled, this nugget allows you to use MH textbook resources such as PowerPoint presentations, quizzes, sample chapters, etc. in your course. In addition to utilizing textbook resources, you can [...]
Professional Development
The CTS Spring semester workshop calendar and registration is now available. Workshops on using the Elluminate web conferencing software, Windows 7 operating system, beginning and advanced Apple Lion operating system, LakerApps Gmail, Calendar, Docs, Sites, beginning and advanced MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint are available. Most workshops have multiple offerings. In addition to instructor-led workshops, feel free [...]
Tech Tip
Have you made a backup of your online or web-enhanced course lately? If you are a faculty member teaching with the ANGEL learning management system, you should make a few backups of your course regularly throughout the semester. Here are the steps: Click on the course link for which you want to backup. From the [...]
Professional Development
Instructor-led workshops for the fall semester have wrapped up, but look for some to be held during the CELT sponsored Winter Breakout January 17-20.Until then, feel free to check out our self-paced, on-demand tutorials available from our iTunes U site. Tutorials covering Microsoft Word 2010, Excel 2010, PowerPoint 2010 and LakerApps Sites are currently available. [...]
Learning Management System (ANGEL) Updates
Browser Compatibility This past spring, Microsoft released Internet Explorer (IE) version 9 and shortly afterward, Mozilla released Firefox version 4. ANGEL was not immediately compatible with these two browsers. An ANGEL software patch was applied to our installation last month that now makes it compatible with both of these browsers. ANGEL to Blackboard Migration In [...]