Description
ANGEL can be used to communicate and interact with students and among groups of students in various ways, including emailing via Course Mail, distributing Announcements and/or News, using Polls to get student feedback on a particular question, holding online asynchronous discussions using a Discussion Forum, having synchronous interaction either through Live Chat or Live Office Hours, and the ability to have teams in ANGEL by utilizing the Teams tool including working spaces via Team Files.
Features
- Asynchronous interaction to promote a sense of community between the instructor-student and student-student via Course Mail, Announcements, and Discussion Forums
- Promotion of current related news events by posting of articles in the News feature
- Collection of information about a particular questions/topic via Polls
- Synchronous interaction among the entire class via Live Chat and student-instructor via Live Office Hours
- Creation of teams including ability to send a specific team an e-mail, have course content only visible to a specific team, create team specific items in the calendar, hold team-based Live Chat sessions, and have a special Team Files area for teams to work together with one another Continue reading →