Proactively Drive Student Success

Many of our proprietary customers remark that ANGEL’s comprehensive tools give them exactly what they need to address their unique pedagogy, management and instructional delivery challenges - a highly flexible powerhouse of simple to use tools that proactively drive student achievement and institution-wide results.

ANGEL’s leading edge technology facilitates performance monitoring, critical data-mining and proactive interaction and intervention. Curriculum designers enjoy the flexibility to shape, standardize and scale the learning experience to meet specific learner and institution objectives.

Only ANGEL distills extensive LMS data, creating a unique perspective on student behavior and performance and offering automated options to take action that empower better educational outcomes.

Proprietary institutions recognize that specific student behavior and performance patterns support successful, consistent outcomes. Until now it’s been difficult, if not impossible, to monitor volumes of students efficiently and effectively. Solution: ANGEL monitors behavior and performance for you at scale, automatically notifying and reporting deviations from desired student behavior to instructors, advisors and students as designated.

Identify & Respond to Student Behavior - at Scale

Today’s educators recognize the importance of early student monitoring and proactive intervention to support improved student outcomes and retention. As a result, ANGEL’s proprietary customers have embraced our exclusive Technology as an integral part of their curriculum design. ANGEL Agent Technology automates, schedules and activates predefined actions at scale. Effective monitoring delivers critical performance data for online instruction, identifying participation, behavior patterns and achievement levels and triggering appropriate response. Instructional and curriculum designers incorporate ANGEL agents into flexible master course and content templates, creating consistent, proactive learning models that use pre-defined criteria to support institutional objectives. The result: Highly scalable, consistent pedagogy that drives student achievement and is easy to use.

• Powerful Student Performance & Behavior Monitoring - Round the clock monitoring and pattern management to specification; identify at-risk learners, behavior patterns, milestones and automatically notify stakeholders.
• Automate Intervention & Activity - Predefined actions execute on a scheduled or event-driven basis; design escalation procedures & implement immediate remediation.
• Differentiated Content Release - Customize content release or learner paths based on grade or course behavior with flexible automation tools.
• Personalize Communication at Scale - Personalize and automate interaction based on performance or activity. Create alerts and notifications that activate when performance deviates from prescribed behavior.

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ANGEL Agent technology automates, schedules and activates predefined actions at scale.

Unmatched Course Visibility

Most online environments aren’t able to easily deliver physical and visual indicators of student participation, attendance and behavior patterns to instructors. ANGEL overcomes the challenge by delivering immediate visibility for busy instructors and advisors into critical course and student data. Student activity assembled automatically on login quickly communicates participation, behavior and performance with options to take immediate action. Instructors immediately see visual summaries of course logons, discussion forum and submission activity. A personal view of ungraded items, “What’s New” and “Tasks” provides a convenient perspective of pending course work.

Students also view their own activity, grades and pending work, with task-based navigation that makes it easy to identify and act on their priorities. This personal insight supports student accountability and contributes to better time management.

Graphic Summaries Assembled on Login:

• Comprehensive Student Behavior
• Student Performance and Grades
• Pending Work and Personal Tasks

Vital course statistics immediately communicate status and needs

Assessment Diagnostics Improve Performance

Institutions rely heavily on assessments for student evaluation, placement, advancement and ongoing curriculum adjustments. ANGEL recognizes the high level of investment required to develop, manage and evolve superior assessments. In support, ANGEL LMS includes powerful, flexible assessment tools for formative and summative assessment design, delivery, evaluation and management. Psychometric assessment analysis provides the critical information needed to truly understand and identify assessment needs and curriculum gaps and to remediate at-risk learners. ANGEL’s Mastery Settings support formative exercises that allow students to drill against a set of questions until they achieve the proficiency level designated.

• Flexible Assessment Design - Configure display, access and review options to meet pedagogical preferences and assessment objectives.
• Optimized Assessment Creation - Easily create questions, use questions stored in a departmental Question Bank or import questions from publisher content cartridges.
• View Assessment Performance At-A-Glance - Real-time visibility into assessment results and all assessment settings.
• Industry-Leading Item Analysis - True item analysis of assessment and question performance automatically does the hard math and provides data to improve assessments.
• Reliability
• Discrimination
• Difficulty
• Frequency & Distribution
• Mean

• Question Bank Efficiency - Share Question Banks and assessments across your department or campus. Easily searchable, question banks assist in standardizing assessments.

Designed for easy scanning and sorting, Item Analysis quickly identifies questions that are achieving objectives or those that are not performing.

Secure Browser

ANGEL’s integrated Secure Browser enables secure testing without a dedicated lab. The browser blocks all other programs and locks the student in the testing environment.

Actionable Reports Drive Better Outcomes

Robust data-mining capabilities are centralized in a single, easy-to-learn reports console for flexible configuration, customization, display and sharing. Follow-up on report results is easy, with one-click options for saving, sharing, export and remediation activities.

• Quickly Identify At-Risk & Achieving Students - Pinpoint performance and view against stated learning objectives
• Instantly See “WhoDunIt” - Find out who did what, when and how well
• Securely Share Learner Performance - Specify report access for students, instructors & advisors

Measure Student Outcomes against Standards or Objectives

ANGEL’s Learning Outcomes Management tracks student performance against identified objectives or standards, with visibility into student competency that helps improve and standardize learning outcomes.

• Consistent Standards Administration - Institutions can utilize existing standards or create their own, administering them consistently across large numbers of courses.
• Instructor Evaluation – Measure the effectiveness of curriculum delivery or how well students are prepared.

Managing Your Content Investment

Content development and management are crucial components and critical investments for educational institutions today. In support, ANGEL offers the flexibility and control needed to design, create and efficiently manage course and content delivery, protecting your investment and facilitating collaborative sharing.

• Learning Object Repository Included - Increase content management efficiency and protect content investment with ANGEL’s standards-based LOR
• Centralized Content Development and Management – Efficient, easy-to-use tools
• Master Courses – Maximize efficiency and consistency while implementing smart content management
• Content Templates - Promote effective lesson design, consistent pedagogy and ready-to-use learning models with Content Templates.

Comprehensive Communication & Collaboration Tools Included

Stimulate engagement, active learning, collaboration and online community-building. ANGEL includes more seamlessly integrated communication and collaboration tools within the LMS suite, making access and use seamless and easy.

Podcasting Made Simple

Nowhere is podcasting – or course syndication - as simple as it is in ANGEL. Instructors broadcast audio or video files, links or content items by simply placing them in a course syndication folder.

Wikis & Blog Interaction – Academic-focused web tools are increasingly popular with students and instructors.

• Wikis - Especially valuable for active peer-to-peer learning and student interaction -included in ANGEL.
• Blogs - Recognized for allowing enhanced comprehension and communication among students as well as promoting active learning and building deeper understanding.

Unlimited Discussion Forums - ANGEL's gradable discussion forums support an unlimited number of threaded discussions.

• ANGEL LIVE: Support active, peer and personalized learning opportunities
  • Virtual Office Hours
  • Controlled Chat & IM
  • Desktop Sharing
  • Whiteboard

Powerful Email - Secure ANGEL course mail is a powerful, full-featured communication system. It handles folders, multiple attachments, blind carbon copies (BCC), HTML formatted messages and links for speed. Students don’t need internet email if they have ANGEL course mail, but course mail can be forwarded to an internet email account.

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Less Training Needed

ANGEL’s task-driven interface delivers the ease of use needed to support rapid, adoption by students and instructors - with little or no training needed. ANGEL’s focus on simple workflows and intuitive interface design drives broader, deeper adoption by users of all abilities. The award-winning interface makes it easy for new staff to learn quickly, while learner-centric tools empower student achievement.

Easier Course Content Migration

ANGEL simplifies migration with tools developed to streamline procedures and reduce downtime. Technical tools help preserve your investment in course content. An Import Wizard makes course conversion easy while a Batch Import Utility with Drag-and-Drop capabilities enables the efficient migration of volumes of courses. And ANGEL’s proven customer support offers further assurance that your move to ANGEL will be backed by an unmatched record of responsiveness and customer satisfaction.

• Simple, Powerful Content Conversion
• Efficient Batch Course Import
• Maintains IMS Compliant Course Structure
• Minimal Re-Work Required
• Full Enterprise Functionality

Complimentary Technology Foundation

An open, enterprise system, ANGEL scales efficiently with proven reliability and easily integrates with your existing systems.

• Proven Student Information System Integration
• Open APIs Connect Systems
• Open Database Architecture
• Standards-Based Assurance
  

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Unsurpassed Value

ANGEL’s inclusive LMS suite incorporates more features that others charge extra for - in one convenient product. Eliminate the hassles of multiple log-ins, different interfaces, extra training and multiple product maintenance with ANGEL’s cost-effective, technology hub.

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

ANGEL Content Alliances

ANGEL partners with publishers to provide institutions maximum flexibility in program offerings. ANGEL content partners develop and deliver fully customizable, media-rich course and assessment materials in different formats. Broad availability of content across grade levels and subject areas provides instructors, faculty and trainers increased options to meet instructional and administrative objectives.

ANGEL Services

ANGEL Learning is committed to your success. Our services staff partner with our clients to provide award winning responsiveness and personalized service that ensure high satisfaction and consistent results. From your interaction with our technical support team through every phase of your ANGEL implementation or hosted instance, you will experience the commitment to excellence that sets ANGEL services apart.

• Education & Training
• Technical Support
• End User Help Desk Support
• Technical Consulting

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ANGEL Application Hosting Services - ANGEL’s technology experts fine-tune your mission-critical system to ensure optimal course delivery performance without infrastructure hassle and expensive overhead. Proven reliability, pro-active management and ANGEL’s service team responsiveness consistently exceed customer expectations.

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