UW-ACE Documentation

UW-ACE switched from ANGEL version 7.3 to 7.4 on April 28th, 2010.

UW-ACE/ANGEL Documentation

Documentation about UW-ACE (ANGEL 7.4) is available from the UW-ACE Help page:

• What's New in ANGEL 7.4 Highlights (pdf, 2 pages)
• Instructor Quickstart Guide (pdf, 65 pages)
• Instructor 'How To' Guide (pdf, 387 pages)
• Using the Gradebook Guide (pdf, 25 pages)
• Accessibility Guide from ANGEL (pdf, 6 pages)
• UW-ACE FAQ

Version 7.4 documentation

What's New in 7.4 One Page Handout: ANGEL 7.4 - What's New Summary from this page.

The following PDF documents about ANGEL 7.4 (UW-ACE) are available online:

• NEW ANGEL 7.4 Features
• ANGEL 7.4 Instructor Reference Manual (594 pages)
• ANGEL 7.4 Instructor Reference Manual (with optional Gradebook) (618 pages)
• ANGEL 7.4 Instructor Quickstart Tutorial (92 pages)
• ANGEL 7.4 Student Quickstart Tutorial (31 pages)

Additional documents in zipped PDF are here:

• HTML Editor Reference Manual
• Whiteboard Quick Reference Guide

Online ANGEL 7.4 manuals

• Penn State University
• Michigan State University

ANGEL 7.4 Video Tutorials:

• Faculty How to Navigate ANGEL 7.4
• Faculty How to to Navigate the HOME Page in ANGEL 7.4
• Faculty How to Upload a Syllabus in ANGEL 7.4
• Faculty How to Set Up the Gradebook in ANGEL 7.4
• Faculty How to Set Up the Gradebook Preferences in ANGEL 7.4
• Faculty How to Add Assignments to the Gradebook in ANGEL 7.4
• Faculty How to Add Categories to the Gradebook in ANGEL 7.4
• Faculty How to Add Grades using the Grading Grid in ANGEL 7.4
• Faculty How to Add Grade Reports to the Gradebook in ANGEL 7.4
• Faculty How to Add a Grading Scale to the Gradebook in ANGEL 7.4
• Faculty How to Add a Component in ANGEL 7.4
• Faculty How to Add a Course Announcement in ANGEL 7.4
• Faculty How to Add a WORD DOC as a Syllabus in ANGEL 7.4
• Faculty How to Create a Folder in LESSONS in ANGEL 7.4
• Faculty How to add a Page Item in LESSONS in ANGEL 7.4
• Faculty How to add a File Item in LESSONS in ANGEL 7.4
• Faculty How to add a Link Item in LESSONS in ANGEL 7.4
• Faculty How to Set Up an Assessment in ANGEL 7.4

• Some ANGEL assessment video tutorials from a migration to version 7.3 at Penn State University in 2009 along with some manual pages about assessment topics.

• Recording (2 hours) of the ANGEL 7.4 Town Hall online meeting about moving to version 7.4 held on Monday, April 19th, 2010 at Penn State University and hosted by Jeff Swain (PSU). It covers these items:
  • assessment (quiz to assessment) (from the start)
  • rubric marking tool (1h 5m)
  • dropbox minor change to settings locations (1h 14m)
  • example of making a rubric (1h 16m)
  • course import/export manager look is different (1h 19m)
  • merge roster manager (1h 23m)
  • youtube and picassa quick linking in html editor with Google button (1h 29m)
  • assessment item analysis tool (1h 33m)
  • Q and A (1h 40m - 2h end)

UW-ACE and ANGEL 7.3

UW-ACE moved from version 7.3 to to 7.4 on April 28th 2010. Documentation links below may no longer be active.

Version 7.3 documentation:

• ANGEL 7.3 documentation for the current version of UW-ACE:
  • What's new in 7.3 (32 pages, pdf)
  • Instructor Quickstart Guide (7.3) (76 pages, pdf)
  • Instructor 7.3 Step by Step (454 pages, pdf) - HOW-TO instructions for many common tasks by instructors.
  • ANGEL 7.3 Theme Guide (26 pages, pdf)
  • Instructor 7.3 Reference Manual (1270 pages, pdf) - see page 829 Appendix VII: ANGEL Step-by-Step for over 400 pages of HOW-TO instructions.
• ANGEL 7.3 HTML Editor Reference Manual (86 pages, pdf)
• older ANGEL 7.2 documentation:
  • 7.2 Instructor Reference Manual, April 2007, (750 pages, pdf).
  • HTML Editor Guide Ver 7.2, June 2007, (77 pags, pdf)

Supported browsers

• Windows OS: Internet Explorer 7 and 8, Firefox, and Mozilla.
• Macintosh OS: Firefox and Mozilla.
• recomendations: Firefox 3, Internet Explorer 7/8 (other browsers - Safari, Opera, OmniWeb, Chrome, etc - are not supported by ANGEL; see Firefox addons pages for features of your favorite brower)
• settings: JavaScript enabled, Cookies enabled, Java enabled, pop-ups allowed
• check browser settings here or here.

UW-ACE

UW-ACE (University of Waterloo ANGEL Course Environment) is a Learning Management System offered by IST at UW and developed by ANGEL Learning (see also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANGEL_Learning).
ANGEL User Group List: ANGEL-L@LISTSERV.IUPUI.EDU "The list is for rapid response to queries about ANGEL software from the user community."

Paul Kates, Mathematics Faculty CTE Liaison, pkates@uwaterloo.ca, x37047.