ANGEL ONLINE LEARNING MANAGEMENT SYSTEM WORKSHOPS
ANGEL is our online learning management system -- similar to Blackboard or WebCT. Courses developed in other systems can usually be imported into ANGEL; please contact Jim Forney (x5920) for assistance. More ANGEL info...
1. Why Use ANGEL? How to Use ANGEL? An Intro to the Online Learning Management System
Attend this intro session to learn how to create an online component for any course you are teaching. Post your syllabi and assignments, including files of nearly any format; monitor your class roster, including attendance; create group workspace, and much more!
Additionally, this workshop will address the challenge we all face to apply technology in a pedagogically-purposeful manner which benefits the teaching and learning experience. Attend this session to learn more about the characteristics of the "net generation" (Oblinger) and why ANGEL works for both "natives" (Prensky) and "immigrants" (Prensky) in this equation, as well as to learn more about what to expect by way of technology skills from the students coming to campus this fall.
Session capacity: 10
NEW this year: Request your ANGEL course shell within the APR system. Please make sure to do so in advance of this workshop.
2. ANGEL Communication Tools
Attend this session to learn how to use ANGEL communication tools, including new features like blogs and wikis, along with old standbys such as course email, calendar, discussion forums and journals.
Prerequisite: ANGEL intro or experience with a similar system (Blackboard, WebCT).
NEW this year: Request your ANGEL course shell within the APR system. Please make sure to do so in advance of this workshop.
Session capacity: 10
3. ANGEL Assessment Tools
ANGEL assessment tools include a grade book*, milestones, WhoDunIT and other reporting tools and automatic agents. Attend this session to create an electronic grade book tailored to our specific needs for an ANGEL course. Please bring a class syllabus and roster to begin your first project.
NEW this year: Request your ANGEL course shell within the APR system. Please make sure to do so in advance of this workshop.
Prerequisite: At least one full semester using ANGEL.
Session capacity: 6
*Please note that ANGEL gradebook should never be designated as the ultimate course grade book. Always use alternative software for official calculations and maintain a back up copy of your grade book data.
4. What's New in ANGEL 7.2?
What's new in 7.2? Wikis and blogs, for starters; expanded resources for communication and collaboration, in general. Version 7.2 includes lots of enhanced features and tools designed to improve teaching with an online component. You'll find a much more detailed feature overview for faculty online.
SMART CLASSROOM TECHNOLOGY WORKSHOPS
For self-training, a number of useful SMART Technologies resources are available online!
1. Smart Classroom Tech... Step by Step
Attend this session to learn how to use the teaching and learning technologies typically available in an electronic classroom: SMART Board, data/video projector, wireless mice and keyboards, DVD player and object camera.
Session capacity: 20
2. Sympodium or SMART Board
Those who are teaching in an electronic classroom with interactive SMART Technologies should take advantage of the full toolset. Attend this session for hands-on training on either the Sympodium or SMART Board in advance of the first day of class.
Session capacity: 10
3. SynchronEyes
SynchronEyes is installed in select locations -- Piskor 214, Madill 211, both general biology labs and the general computer lab (Rm #224) in the Johnson Hall of Science. This software enables faculty to help manage how students are using computers and technology resources in a teaching lab environment, and facilitates an interactive classroom learning environment.
Session capacity: 10
SLU-SPECIFIC TECH TOOLS
1. Academic Planning & Registration (APR) System
Attend this session to learn how to access information about your advisees, clear advisee holds, access class schedules, find rosters, and input grades. New this year: Request your ANGEL course shell through the APR system!
Session capacity: 20
2. Crestron Multimedia Control System
Attend this session to become familiar with the systems installed for teaching technology in the auditoriums: Bloomer/Brown 122, Carnegie 10, Griffiths 123, Hepburn 218. It is also installed in Richardson 15 film viewing room, Eben Holden Main Conference Room, and NCAT teaching spaces.
When using these spaces, you must use the Crestron touchscreen to turn on the equipment (video/data projector, VCR, etc.), and in many cases you also navigate menus through this system. Remote controls are no longer available in these spaces, with exception for slide projection.
More Crestron implementation info; see also Crestron instructions... (pdf)
Session capacity: n/a
3. SLU Network -- Mac or Windows specific
Attend this session (specific to Mac or Windows) to learn how to access network drives for secure storage at work (personal storage, storage shared with faculty and staff, and storage for class materials accessible by students). You will also learn about using the virtual private network (VPN) to access these same resources from home.
Session capacity: 12
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