As stated in a previous correspondence, the University will be upgrading from ANGEL 7.2 to version 7.4 on July 21. ANGEL will be unavailable that day. Over the next few weeks, you will receive messages on what you can expect in the new environment.
The following is an excerpt from the ANGEL Learning website. More details can be found at
http://angellearning.com/products/lms/whats_new_74.html

What's New in ANGEL LMS 7.4
The ANGEL Learning Management Suite (LMS) 7.4 offers a host of new features designed to enrich the teaching and learning experience for faculty and staff, maximize an institution's investment in curriculum and better meet overall accountability needs, and expand and simplify administrative support. New functionality includes:

• Enhanced support for rich media content
  
• New lesson plans
  
• Enhanced surveys
  
• New grading rubrics
  
• New optional gradebook interface
  
• Learning object repository enhancements
  
• Assessment updates

Enhanced Support for Rich Media Content
The ANGEL 7.4 provides new tools to integrate web-based rich media content giving instructors new ways to create more engaging and interactive teaching and learning experiences.

New Lesson Plans
A new lesson plan content item allows instructors and/or instructional designers to create a template-based lesson plan and then search and align to standards or student content resources in support of the plan.

Enhanced Surveys
The ANGEL 7.4 enhances surveys and aligns them more closely with the overall capabilities of assessments. The enhancements make surveys a more effective tool for pre- and post-assessment of courses, instructors, and programs.

New Grading Rubrics
The ANGEL 7.4 now offers grading rubrics to assist in the evaluation of manually graded assignments. Grading rubrics simplify the process of grading manually graded items and assure that students are evaluated against the same criteria by the same or multiple graders.

New Gradebook Interface
The ANGEL 7.4 offers a new optional Gradebook that provides additional tools and a host of usability and workflow improvements. Improvements include improved setup, single interface and reporting summary.

Learning Object Repository Enhancements
The ANGEL provides the most comprehensive set of content management capabilities available. Changes to the learning object repository (LOR) in the ANGEL LMS 7.4 improve centralized content management workflow; make it easier to create and share content items, publish assessments and surveys across multiple courses; and improve reporting of student results at both course and aggregate levels.

Assessment Updates
The ANGEL 7.4 provides a number of updates to question sets and item analysis, providing enhanced capabilities and more robust analysis of assessment items. As of 7.4 we only have the Assessment option, no quiz.

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