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[mountain_ivy]

Anyone familiar with Angel?  How is it similar to/different than Blackboard/WebCt??  Thanks.

[zuzu_]

I am in amidst a reverse change: I am used to ANGEL and starting my new job with WebCT.

Anyway, I don't know too much about WebCT, but I can tell you that I always found ANGEL to be quite easy and intuitive to navigate. I never had any formal training with the system, yet I easily managed to use many, many functions.

Good luck!

[mountain_ivy]

zuzu--Thanks for the info.  Based on my experience with WebCt, especiallly as you found angel user-friendly, you're the one who needs luck....and patience.  ~:)

[expatinuk]

I Moodle

[big_giant_head]

I'm setting up a class from scratch in ANGEL right this moment.  That is, I've taught the class before, but I was using a modified version of a class designed by someone else.  This semester it's all me, baby. 

Are there specific issues you wonder about?

The new version, 7.2, will have podcast, wiki, and blog capabilities, by the way.  My institution is converting to 7.2 this week.  I'm all excited about it.

[zuzu_]

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zuzu--Thanks for the info.  Based on my experience with WebCt, especiallly as you found angel user-friendly, you're the one who needs luck....and patience.  ~:)

Sh!t you are right. I f*cked around on WebCT all day today. I am going to kill myself. ANGEL is WAY easier than WebCT.

[georgia_guy]

WebCT Vista is about forty steps backward from the older, non-Java WebCT. I honestly have no clue why they decided to go with such a horrid platform, nor why my entire state university system decided to standardize on it.

Vista is about as user friendly as Wordperfect 5.1 with no keyboard template.

[csguy]

WebCT Vista is about forty steps backward from the older, non-Java WebCT. I honestly have no clue why they decided to go with such a horrid platform, nor why my entire state university system decided to standardize on it.

Not to worry. Blackboard owns it now and will probably kill it.

Hmm, maybe you should worry.

[drsyn]

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zuzu--Thanks for the info.  Based on my experience with WebCt, especiallly as you found angel user-friendly, you're the one who needs luck....and patience.  ~:)

Sh!t you are right. I f*cked around on WebCT all day today. I am going to kill myself. ANGEL is WAY easier than WebCT.

Access "ask Dr. C"   It shows up on the right side of the class list page.

WebCT in not at all intuitive.  Do you have any specific questions?

[zuzu_]

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zuzu--Thanks for the info.  Based on my experience with WebCt, especiallly as you found angel user-friendly, you're the one who needs luck....and patience.  ~:)

Sh!t you are right. I f*cked around on WebCT all day today. I am going to kill myself. ANGEL is WAY easier than WebCT.

Access "ask Dr. C"   It shows up on the right side of the class list page.

WebCT in not at all intuitive.  Do you have any specific questions?

We'll see how things go today. I am at a small, rural school; I am having a c-section next week (which is in-service) so I'm begging various tech people to help this week, but everyone seems to me MIA.

This particular course is already taught by another instructor, but her approach is WAY different than what I have done so I ordered a different textbook and decided to build my version of the online course from scratch. (Well, not exactly scratch; I've taught the traditional version of this course a bazillion times.) I'm kicking myself now, but at least I'll be glad during the semester when I'm doing the material in a way that works for me. I don't think the people here realize that I'm doing it this way.

Right now, I am having trouble trying to get things up in html. One of the tech people just emailed and said to compose in FrontPage. WTF? I had to do this for an online course YEARS ago. When was the last time FrontPage was part of Microsoft Office? I have it on my home computer, thank god.

Anyway, I'll post later in the day if I have specific questions. I'm just going to keep the gd course as simple as possible until I can get some real training in this system.

Have fun with ANGEL, you lucky b@stards.

[georgia_guy]

If your pages are not too complicated, you can make them in MS Word, and just save as a web page.

[aandsdean]

WebCT Vista is about forty steps backward from the older, non-Java WebCT. I honestly have no clue why they decided to go with such a horrid platform, nor why my entire state university system decided to standardize on it.

Vista is about as user friendly as Wordperfect 5.1 with no keyboard template.

Your state university system also often upgrades Banner right in the middle of registration periods.  (They did it twice while I was there.) 

It's just part of the joy.

[bone_gal]

I teach using WebCT Vista (which I hate), but I don't have the problems you're describing. My version has an HTML editor built in, so I get a toolbar that looks like Word (color, bolding, font choice, size, etc.).  To get to it, I click the button saying "enable HTML creator." I can copy in from MS word, and then fix the formatting. I don't know anything about HTML and have never had to design that way. Are you saying you have nothing like that in your course?


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We'll see how things go today. I am at a small, rural school; I am having a c-section next week (which is in-service) so I'm begging various tech people to help this week, but everyone seems to me MIA.

This particular course is already taught by another instructor, but her approach is WAY different than what I have done so I ordered a different textbook and decided to build my version of the online course from scratch. (Well, not exactly scratch; I've taught the traditional version of this course a bazillion times.) I'm kicking myself now, but at least I'll be glad during the semester when I'm doing the material in a way that works for me. I don't think the people here realize that I'm doing it this way.

Right now, I am having trouble trying to get things up in html. One of the tech people just emailed and said to compose in FrontPage. WTF? I had to do this for an online course YEARS ago. When was the last time FrontPage was part of Microsoft Office? I have it on my home computer, thank god.

Anyway, I'll post later in the day if I have specific questions. I'm just going to keep the gd course as simple as possible until I can get some real training in this system.

Have fun with ANGEL, you lucky b@stards.
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[csguy]

If your pages are not too complicated, you can make them in MS Word, and just save as a web page.

Ugh. That will make them complicated.

Try NVU (http://www.nvu.com/index.php). It's relatively simple and lightweight (and Free).

[zuzu_]

I teach using WebCT Vista (which I hate), but I don't have the problems you're describing. My version has an HTML editor built in, so I get a toolbar that looks like Word (color, bolding, font choice, size, etc.).  To get to it, I click the button saying "enable HTML creator." I can copy in from MS word, and then fix the formatting. I don't know anything about HTML and have never had to design that way. Are you saying you have nothing like that in your course?

I will look to see if I can do this. I just really have no idea what I'm doing--I've never been in WebCT until this week. Thanks for the idea.

Apologies to the OP for the hijack.