Angel
Background: ANGEL Learning Inc. is based in Indianapolis, IN. The Indiana University Research and Technology Corporation (IURTC), an independent 501(c)3 corporation affiliated with Indiana University, created the company in mid-2000. ANGEL Learning evolved from research conducted by the CyberLab at the Purdue University School of Engineering and Technology on the Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) campus.
The company says that ANGEL features easy customization and secure, simple integration. Because much of their development is driven by ongoing customer feedback, the systems is based on flexibility and customization. Features include ...
Discussion forums: The software includes support for discussion forums. Discussions can be viewed by date, by thread, by title, by author, by group, by the type of post.
File exchange: Students and instructors can edit their text files in their folder using a browser.
Internal email: Students can use the Internal email feature to email individuals and groups.
Online Journal/notes: Students can make private notes about each of their courses and may share them with their instructor.
Real-time chat: The chat tool supports private rooms, private messages, ability to ignore specific participants, and customized chat windows.
Video services: Instructors can include real-time video with slide or web presentations within the optional synchronous tools.
Searching within course: Students can search all titles, subtitles, page content, course notes, and discussion threads by message contents or message topics in their courses.
Calendar/Progress review: Students can keep track of all their assignments, deadlines, and due dates in an online calendar.
Work offline: Students can download course content and email messages and synchronize calendar events with a PDA.
Self-assessment: Instructors can create anonymous, timed or untimed self-assessments that students can take multiple times.
Student Community Building: Students can create online clubs, interest, and study groups.
Student Portfolios: Students can create a personal home page. Personal home pages may include their photo and personal information.
Online grading tools: Instructors can mark all assessments not automatically scored online.
Student tracking: Instructors can get reports showing the number of times and time and date on which each student accessed course content, specific course units, discussion forums, assessments, and assignments.
Automated testing and scoring: Instructors can create automatically scored true/false, multiple choice, multiple answer, fill-in-the-blank, matching, short answer, and calculated answer questions.
Accessibility compliance: The product provider self-reports that the software complies with Section 508 of the US Rehabilitation Act and with the W3C Priority Level I items and most Level II and III items and the WAI WCAG 1.0 Level A guidelines.
Course templates: Instructors can use templates to create announcements, calendar entries, course content, course units, discussion forums, instructor biography, links, syllabus and course descriptions.
Instructional design tools: Instructors can create both linear and nonlinear learning sequences using a content library organized hierarchically by course, lesson, topic, and chunk.
Content sharing/reuse: The system supports sharing content across course and institution boundaries.