Angel Q&A - The Importance of Zeros

Questions:

• Why does my gradebook calculate differently for different students?
• Why do I need to input zeros into every assignment?

Angel Q&A - Rubric Error

Question: When trying to use a rubric to grade a dropbox, what does this error mean: "Scores cannot be below the minimum achievement level?" And how can I fix it?

Angel Q&A - Midterm Grades

How can I use Angel to help me figure midterm grades?



update: An alternative is to export the gradebook to a csv file and use Excel to figure your midterm scores.

Angel Q&A - Gradebook 7.4 Grade Reports

These questions primarily concern the 7.4 ("terms") gradebook in Angel.

1. Why do the grade reports show differently for my students than they do for me? And how can I change it so my students see percents instead of letter grades? Points instead of percents? etc.
2. My grade report is listed as "Overall Report," how can I edit the title of the report?

Angel Q&A - A couple of Mail Questions

Today's Questions:

1. I received a Mail message forwarded to my Kirkwood email account, but I can't find the message in the Angel Mail tool. Where is the message?
2. My class isn't open yet (or it's closed), but a student sent me a message from that course. How did they gain access?
3. A student sent me a Mail message from a course, but they haven't logged into that course for over a week. How did they do that?

Saving Assessment Progress & Attendance

Why do time limited assessments in ANGEL show a Save and Continue button and what does that do to the timer if the student clicks it?

How can the attendance be easily calculated using ANGEL's Attendance manager?

New Team Release Options!

There are new options available for team release of content in ANGEL. This will be most useful if you have an exam (or other content item) that you would like to have different settings for different students. An example might be a makeup exam for one or more students (different dates available), or an exam for a student requiring extra time (different time limit), or an assignment that is available to only students who have completed the assignment.

Here is a quick step-by-step:
1. Create a team that will have the special settings (teams are created on the Manage tab)
2. Lessons, Settings link for the content item
3. Access tab for the content item
4. Click the team name to open the Over ride settings window
5. Check only the categories you want to over ride
6. Be sure to set ALL the option in the category you have selected
7. Save

A * next to the team name indicated there are special settings for anyone in that team. Add more members to the team from the Manage, Team page. Alternatively, you might be interested in learning to create an agent that auto enrolls students in teams based what they do in your course.