K12 Teaching and Learning Tools

ANGEL LMS delivers the most comprehensive suite of simple, yet powerful teaching and learning tools for K12 in one web-based solution. ANGEL’s simplicity and ease of use make it possible for all educators to develop and implement a technology-rich curriculum their way.

Easy to Use. With little or no training needed, ANGEL helps instructors organize, deliver and launch all types of curriculum with the convenience of 24/7 availability. Using ANGEL is easy, with intuitive workflows, simple click-and-go course map navigation and drag-n-drop customization. If you can use Microsoft® Word, you can publish a web page, and that’s just the beginning!

Select Your User Level: Are you a Beginner, Intermediate or Advanced LMS user? ANGEL works for all levels of LMS knowledge and even allows you to select a specific mode to further tailor your experience. With ANGEL, both power users and novices can peacefully coexist in one LMS. Beginners get the help they need with drop down notes and link descriptions. Advanced users access the power they enjoy with advanced settings.

ANGEL’s Simple Tools Enhance Teaching and Learning

• Easily create and conduct assessments and surveys
• Identify at-risk students and personalize learning paths
• Automatic grading, weight assignment modification, re-grade, map grades to scores, helpful Gradebook Wizard
• Promote accountability with 24/7 access to course calendars, assignments, progress reports and more
• Electronically distribute, publish, share and store materials and assignments
• Foster collaboration and peer to peer learning with innovative tools

Better Time Management

As K12 teachers struggle with heavy workloads, time-consuming tasks and standards accountability, ANGEL offers time management assistance with a single point of control to direct, monitor and measure student performance and activity. ANGEL helps manage the classroom, automating repetitive tasks, managing assessments and increasing productivity to free more teaching time. Online convenience helps busy students, teachers and parents with 24/7 access to class and school information, assignment dropboxes, resources and communication tools.

Let ANGEL act as your virtual assistant, monitoring performance, activity and taking care of repetitive tasks.

Build Rich, Collaborative Communities and Engage Students

ANGEL includes more ways to support online community-building, student engagement and active learning. Utilize ANGEL’s leading-edge communication and collaboration tools, integrated Learning Object Repository or Parent Portal to encourage active participation, collaborative sharing and enhanced communication. Manage projects, groups, teams and enrichment activities easily.

Innovative Communication Tools

Convenient online access and a variety of delivery options appeal to different learning styles and classroom needs. Easy to use, integrated tools stimulate participation within the learning environment.

Podcasting – User-friendly course syndication tools allow students to download course content to iPods or other RSS ready devices with ease. Super user friendly folder structure makes it easy for teachers.

Wikis & Blogs – Academically-focused web tools students love to use Wikis and Blogs encourage interaction.

Unlimited Discussion Forums – Unlimited, threaded discussion forums feature multiple pedagogically-based models and are gradable. Use journal mode for private learner/teacher discussions and much more.

Powerful Course Mail – Secure email with flexible capabilities including cyber bully blocking and user friendly folder organization.

ANGEL LIVE Synchronous Tools – Virtual Office Hours, Desktop Sharing, Whiteboard, Chat and Instant Messaging offer an engaging real-time communication environment that extends the classroom.

Virtual Office Hours: ANGEL’s Student Queue Manager illustrates the learner’s place in line.

VALUE: ANGEL’s seamless communication and collaboration tools require no additional investment

Parental Involvement Improves Outcomes

Build strong home-school connections by making it easy for parents to monitor their children’s progress and communicate with teachers, advisors and mentors. Increasing parental awareness and involvement supports improvements in student performance.

ANGEL’s Parent Portal makes monitoring student progress and communicating with teachers simple so events are handled before they become issues.

In ANGEL Parent Portal parents:

• Review their child’s grade transcripts, lessons and attendance records.  
• Navigate to more detail with just one click. 
• Stay up-to-date on school and classroom events by viewing calendars, announcement and news.
• Can quickly and easily email any of their child’s instructors without leaving the ANGEL interface.

Parents immediately view their child’s performance data on login

View Student Data Immediately

Parents enjoy the no-hassle convenience of viewing a comprehensive visual summary of their child’s performance and activity data immediately on log in. ANGEL automatically assembles a graphic display of pertinent information for them at once. Visual graphics clearly display vital course statistics, with follow-up detail available with just one click. Icons provide simple navigation to more information on the child’s course, calendar, lessons, reports and grades. Follow-up or communication is easy with ANGEL’s convenient email tools.

VALUE: ANGEL’s built-in Parent Portal requires no additional investment

Smart Content Management

ANGEL tools efficiently manage course and content reuse and delivery to maximize your investment in learning content development. You’ll also benefit from increased collaboration opportunities with ANGEL’s fully integrated, standards-based Learning Object Repository. Search for, share or adapt learning objects, assessments, multi-media and  forms quickly and easily within your school or district.

Learn More: Learning Content Management

VALUE: ANGEL’s built in Learning Object Repository and Learning Content Management tools require no additional investment

Stronger Accountability & Learning Outcomes

Proactively assessing student proficiency at all stages of the learning cycle is more critical than ever with today’s increasing accountability requirements. ANGEL offers teachers a unique perspective into student performance and activity, with increased visibility that supports preventive identification of student needs and curriculum gaps. Powerful, centralized reporting delivers performance data to easily save, export or share. Teachers find creating and understanding assessments is quicker and easier with ANGEL’s powerful assessment tools. And managing standards and correlating student performance is centralized and simplified with ANGEL’s comprehensive Learning Outcomes Management tools.

Increased Performance Visibility

ANGEL distills important student and course information and assembles it for easy consumption. Busy teachers and students are immediately informed.

• Immediate course metric visibility such as log-ins, new mail and performance
• Academic performance summary & activity overview
• Personal View of “What’s New” and your Tasks

Course vital statistics are immediately displayed for you

Proactively Drive Better Outcomes

ANGEL’s powerful actionable reports support informed decision making that drive improved achievement. Configure, customize and display reports in a centralized, easy to learn report console. Quickly pinpoint student and class performance and view against standards.

• Identify at-Risk and achieving learners
• Instantly see “WhoDunnit”
• Securely share learner performance

Easily assemble course and student performance data and take action

Better Assessments; Better Performance

Early, frequent assessment drives improved performance and helps determine curriculum adjustments. ANGEL makes it easier with innovative tools that help you create and deliver the best possible assessments in the fastest, most efficient manner. Flexible options deliver complete control over assessment workflow. Simple automation increases efficiencies.

• Industry-leading Assessment Item Analysis instantly identifies which assessments perform well and which don’t
• At A Glance Assessment Performance delivers real-time assessment data
• Question Bank, Question Pool and Keyword Manager make sharing & finding questions easy
• Mastery Mode provides a new dimension of formative exercises that develop student proficiency
• Automatic grading and re-grade; weight assignment modification

Learn More: Improve Assessment

VALUE: ANGEL’s built-in assessment tools require no additional investment

Student Performance against Standards

ANGEL’s exclusive  Learning Outcomes Management gives you unprecedented insight into student performance against standards, confidence that course content is aligned to standards, and – most importantly – shows you what’s working (and what isn’t) so you can take action. Map desired outcomes or standards to assessments, papers, presentations, podcasts, etc.  Comprehensive reports identify standards applied and student performance against those standards.

VALUE: Learning Outcomes Management technologies built into ANGEL require no additional investment

Remediation and Enrichment Efficiency

When remediation or enrichment is needed, ANGEL’s comprehensive tools offer the flexibility and ease of use needed to address individual, class or group needs. ANGEL’s exclusive AGENT Technology automates and schedules activities based on pre-defined preferences. Differentiated instruction, content release on mastery and more ways to integrate active and peer learning maximize opportunities for personalized instruction.

Learn More: Actionable Information

Magnify teaching effectiveness by automating repetitive or scheduled tasks

VALUE: ANGEL’s exclusive AGENT technology requires no additional investment

Convenient Professional Development

Busy teachers are required to find time for their own professional development and to document their proficiency. ANGEL assists educators with the added convenience of 24/7 anytime, anywhere access to professional development curriculum. Teachers “attend” training with the flexibility and accessibility of secure internet access. Taking required coursework is a great way for teachers to become familiar with ANGEL and its signature ease of use, easing them into the comfort of increased feature use.

Personalized Teaching and Learning

Your Course, Your Way
Our customers have commented that selecting the look and feel of their learning environment is motivational – a personal ANGEL touch that they appreciate.  Choose design-based themes such as “Fresh Veggies”, “Ice” or “Stars and Stripes”, or by subject - “Biology”,” Composition”, “Criminal Justice” and more. One click and the preview window reveals your new style.

Learn More: Personalized, Learning and Communication

Embedded Instructional Design

New instructors benefit from unique assistance of ANGEL’s Embedded Instructional Design. Appearing in the convenient course map window, Context-sensitive pedagogy tips are easily accessed, customized or turned off.

Free Spanish Language Pack

ANGEL includes its Spanish language pack free of charge! ANGEL’s Interface Text Manager allows terminology modification or original translation creation. Multiple language usage is supported – contact ANGEL for more information.

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Games!

ANGEL offers fun options for learner engagement with integrated, gradable games. Suitable for all subjects and age groups, games give educators and learners exciting choices for interaction and fun. ANGEL games provide information on the quantity of hints used and tally up correct answers.

Unsurpassed Value  

ANGEL includes more features that others charge extra for - in one convenient product suite. Eliminate the hassles of multiple log-ins, different interfaces, extra training and the maintenance of multiple products. ANGEL includes more features in one central product, creating a cost-effective, powerful technology hub.

• Parent Portal
• Secure Browser
• Learning Outcomes Management
• What’s New
• Wikis, Blogs, Podcasting
• Community Collaboration
• Learning Object Repository
• Database Schema
• Multiple Language Support
• Portal Framework

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