Watch a video on editing exam security settings:
Exam Browser Security Settings – [requires Flash]
Remove an “Overall” Column in the Grade Book
- Click the Manage tab
- Select the “Grade book” link
- Select the “Categories” link
- Select the category associated with the “Overall” column that you want to remove
- Click the “Edit Selected” button
- Select the “Advance” radio button
- Remove the checkmark from the “Average Shown” checkbox
- Click the “save” button.
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Rearrange Columns in the Grade Book
- Click the Manage tab
- Select the “Grade book” link
- Select the “Categories” link
- Put a checkmark in the top most checkbox (to the left of the word “Title).
- Click the “Show Tasks” button
- Click the “reorder assignments” link
- Select the assignment you wish to move/reorder & then click the appropriate button (top, up, down, bottom). Continue this step until all assignments are in the correct order.
- Click the “save” button.
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Force Assessment Questions into the Question Bank Manager
- Open the test
- Open each individual question & click on the save button to save it.
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Putting links to quizzes in multiple locations
- Create the quiz. It can be located anywhere in the course (i.e. a “Quizzes” folder).
- Go to the content module in which you wish to add a link to the quiz.
- Click ‘add content’.
- Choose ‘Copy Items’
- Look for your quiz in the course page list and choose it
Viola! You’ve added a link to the quiz to a different location of the course!
NOTE: You can use this method to copy ANYTHING from one part of an angel course to another.
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Work-around for Impatica/Angel Issue
- First, ensure you have the latest version of Java: http://www.java.com/en/download/manual.jsp
- Go to the Windows Control Panel (typically found in the Start menu) and selectJava. (note: pick Classic View for the Control Panel).
- Next, click on the “Advanced” tab.
- Expand the “Java Plug-in” section.
- Uncheck the “Enable the next-generation Java Plug-in checkbox“
- Click “Apply”
- Click “OK”
- Close your browser if it is still open.
- Open your browser. It is necessary to restart the web browser for it to take effect.
- Access the Impatica file again.
NOTE: You may have to restart your browser for this work-around to take effect.
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Load an Impatica presentation into a course
- Impaticize the PowerPoint, noting the destination folder.
- Select all three of the created files and right-click.
- Choose “Send-to->Compressed folder” to make a .zip archive of the files.
- Upload the zip archive to Angel (rename it first to something descriptive/useful).
- Angel will ask if you want to extract something. Choose the .html file as the default file.
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Create a chatroom / finding the whiteboard
- Click on the Communications tab across the top.
- In the (probably empty) Live Chat bar, click on the pencil that appears (when you hover over it) to edit.
- Click “add a live chat”
- Enter information and click save
- Click on the Communications tab again
- Click on your new live chat to enter the chat room
From here, you can use hold class discussions, including sharing presentations and using a whiteboard.
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Print a student’s test submission in ANGEL
- Click the “Lessons” tab & locate the test
- Rest your mouse pointer over the icon for the appropriate test
- Select “View, Grade or Delete Submissions”
- Click the “View” button for the student whose submission you want to view
- Copy & past the test submission from ANGEL to Word
- Print the test submission from Word
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Exclude instructors from average calculations in the gradebook
- In the gradebook preferences, check the box entitled “Exclude instructors from averages”
- Save your settings.
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