Tips for ANGEL User
The following are helpful tips that may not appear in the standard ANGEL documentation. These tips are designed to make your ANGEL experience more useful and enjoyable. Please read the following tips and keep this list handy when you are learning how to use ANGEL.
Lessons Tab
1) Click the Index link in the upper right corner to expand all of the folders on the Lessons page. Sometimes instructors organize their courses with multiple layers of folders to group related material. Clicking the Index link will allow you to see every item in the Lessons tab on a single page.
On-line Quiz or Exam
1) Instructors can put a time limit on quizzes and exams. Quiz timers run as a continuous clock. This means that the timer starts when you first access the quiz and does not stop until it reaches zero. You can enter and exit the quiz as many times as you want during this time but the timer will continue to count down.
(Important: Exiting a quiz does NOT mean hitting the submit button. Once you hit the submit button, the timer resets to zero and the quiz is done. Exiting the quiz means going to a different web page or closing your browser)
2) While taking a quiz or exam in ANGEL, you should periodically click the Save Answers button at the bottom of the page. Clicking the Save Answers button will not submit your answers to the instructor, however it will record your answers in a temporary place so that you can quickly restore them in case of a problem. Potential problems range anywhere from a power outage to accidentally closing your browser during the exam. If you haven't clicked the Save Answers button, then you will start with a blank quiz when you access the quiz again. If you clicked the Save Answers button one or more times, then your quiz will resume at the same place where you last clicked Save Answers. It is important to note that you can always change your answers even after you have clicked the Save Answers button.
3) You should print out a copy of your exam after you have filled out all of the answers. If for any reason the electronic copy of your exam is lost or corrupt, your instructor will sometimes accept a paper copy. This is a way to back up your work in case of technical problems.
My Learner Profile
1) The Learner Profile is a good way to keep track of your progress and your status in the course. You can access the learner profile by clicking on the Tools tab and then on My Learner Profile.
ANGEL Email/Email Forwarding
1) The ANGEL email system is a "closed" system. This means that you do not have a specific email address like myname@mycompany.com. Therefore, any email that is sent to an ANGEL account, must originate from some other ANGEL account. So if you are sending an email to your instructor's ANGEL account, you must use ANGEL to do so.
2) You can reply to email that is forwarded from your ANGEL account to another Internet email account. If a classmate emails you within ANGEL and you have email forwarding turned on, the message will be sent to your Internet email account. However, your reply message will not be recorded in ANGEL email system. If you want to reply to the sender's ANGEL email account, you must login to ANGEL and reply from there.
3) When setting up email forwarding in ANGEL, you should choose option 2 or 3 for the forwarding mode. Either one of these options will forward all mail sent to your ANGEL account but it will leave a copy of each email in your ANGEL account. This provides you the option of replying to emails that are sent to your ANGEL account.
4) Some instructors set up their ANGEL email forwarding system to forward ANGEL email messages to their Internet email accounts. Therefore, if you send a message to an instructor's ANGEL email account inside ANGEL, the instructor will receive a copy in his/her Internet email account. In most case, the instructor will simply use the reply to function of his/her email software to reply to you. If you have entered your Internet email address in your ANGEL profile, your Internet email address will appear to be the "From" address in the message and you will receive the instructor's reply message. However, if you don't provide your Internet email address, the reply message from the instructor will get lost. It is VERY IMPORTANT to enter your email address in your ANGEL profile.
Upload Files in ANGEL
1) You will most likely use the file-uploading feature a lot in ANGEL. You might want to attach a file to an email message or a discussion forum posting, turn in your homework, or share a file with your team members. It is very easy to upload a file, however, you will encounter an error if you try to upload a file with special characters in the name. You should avoid using characters like "#. \ / * ? & % ," in your file names.
