New Products for 2009

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Update Summary

• Enrich teaching and learning• Meet accountability needs • Maximize investment in curriculum• Expand administrative support• Minimize technology risk

Products enhanced for your Learning Enterprise

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Enrich Teaching and Learning

• Further engage students: – Easily integrate web-based

rich media content– Integrate real-time web

information through RSS feeds– Evaluate students consistently

through grading rubrics• Use improved grading workflow through a more flexible

gradebook• Increase instructor effectiveness through lesson plans• Enhance the assessment life cycle through improved

item analysis capabilities More…

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Further Engage Students

• Include rich media directly in course content items• Add Web 2.0 content “mashups” to portal pages

Easily integrate web-based content

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Increase Instructor Effectiveness

• Collect, organize, and share lesson elements• Use established or user-defined templates

Align lesson plans to learning objectives

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Enhance the Assessment Lifecycle

• Evaluate results against eight statistical measures of assessment• Review question pools in aggregate or individually• Identify, edit, and re-grade poorly performing items

Use item analysis to understand student results

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Maximize Investment in Curriculum

• More effectively manage centralized content– Develop and share rubrics,

lesson plans, and surveys– Search shared content by

keyword or standard

• Score and review student submission data at the course or repository level

• Ensure content portability– Import Common Cartridge and other formats– Export to Common Cartridge to avoid vendor lock-in– Provide standards portability More…

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More Effectively Manage Content

• Develop and share rubrics, lesson plans, and surveys• Find content items by keyword or standard

Improve centralized content management workflow

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Administer Assessments at Scale

• Publish assessments and surveys across multiple courses• Review student results at both the course and aggregate level

Improve distribution and results analysis workflow

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Ensure Content Portability

• Export course content in the Common Cartridge™ format• Create and distribute standards-aligned course content

Preserve your institution’s content investment

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Meet Accountability Needs

• Decrease the risk of cheating through a secure testing environment

• Enable institutional assessment through improved course surveys

• Support a learning outcomes approach using program rubrics

• Achieve authentic assessment with ePortfolio

More…

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Support Proctored Assessments

• Control student browsing with built-in browser controls

• Practical refinements from real-world use in proctored labs

Decrease risk of cheating using a secure browser

SettingsSettings

Allow users to close the browser without secure browser password afterfinishing exam

Require secure browser password before exiting exam

Allow users to open browser without secure browser password

Ok Cancel

ANGEL Secure Testing URL

Password Confirm Password

SettingsSettings

Allow users to close the browser without secure browser password afterfinishing exam

Require secure browser password before exiting exam

Allow users to open browser without secure browser password

Ok Cancel

ANGEL Secure Testing URL

Password Confirm Password

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Improve Institutional Assessment

• Develop and distribute centralized survey instruments • Include new Likert-scale questions • Generate reports with statistical measures

Evaluate courses, instructors or programs

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Minimizing Technology Risk

ANGEL Learning has taken additional steps to ensure optimal performance of ANGEL LMS 7.4• Our inclusive Community Development

Model creates an informed vision• Community driven Real-World testing

polishes pre-release software– Limited Field Trial – Open Field Trial

• Secure protocol support: HTTPS, SFTP• Scale: developed and tested to support

common load balancing schemes

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