Learning Content Management

Radically maximize your investment in learning content with flexible ANGEL tools that efficiently manage course content reuse and delivery.

• Question Banks Create More Powerful Assessments – Optimize your investment in assessment items.
• Integrated Learning Object Repository – Sophisticated content sharing and reuse. Linking to content keeps content up-to-date everywhere it is used.
• Efficiently Manage Large Enrollment Courses – Master Courses centralize maintenance of primary course content. Flexible permission enable individualized instruction.
• Maintain Consistent Pedagogy –Content Templates create consistent course look, feel and promote effective pedagogy across the curriculum.

Questions Banks Create More Powerful Assessments

ANGEL Questions Banks increase efficiency by aggregating questions, centralizing assessment item management and enabling sharing.

• Instantly usable folder-based system and drag-and-drop controls.
• Deliver standardized assessments across multiple courses.
• Powerful search routines make finding questions easy.
• Save precious disk space by storing questions only once.
• Update a question once. Every assessment subscribed to that question is updated.

Integrated Learning Object Repository

ANGEL’s Learning Object Repository (LOR) is fully integrated, standards-based and included in ANGEL. Developed to respond to your needs for sophisticated content management, an ANGEL LOR enables storage, tagging, searching, sharing, linking, reuse and management of learning objects in a highly scalable, efficient manner.

• Sophisticated Content Sharing and Reuse — Creating high quality learning content requires significant investments of effort and time. The ability to easily share and reuse learning objects across courses, sections, departments, schools, campuses, even institutions reduces content development costs, duplication of effort and promotes quality across the curriculum.
• Link to Content – Link to reusable content stored in an ANGEL LOR. When the learning object (LO) is updated in the LOR, it is updated wherever it occurs, saving time and eliminating versioning problems.
• Search and Browse Capabilities — Finding suitable LOs is easy.
• Create and Edit Functionality — ANGEL LOR supports creating new LOs and also enables editing of existing LOs to keep content development costs down.
• No Integration Hassles — ANGEL LOR is built into ANGEL.
• Unlimited Central Repositories — Centrally maintained repositories have flexible permissions for easy access control.
• Personal Repositories — Every ANGEL user has a personal ANGEL LOR.
• MERLOT Search Capability — Search the MERLOT (Multimedia Education Resource for Learning and Online Teaching) learning objects database and link to appropriate objects without leaving ANGEL.

Share Questions

ANGEL’s Question Pool tool lets you quickly search through all available questions.Advanced filters limit results based on keywords, question type, difficulty, question bank or associated standard.

Keyword Manager formalizes the use of keywords in an assessment. Easily share or standardize keywords by importing or exporting a simple text file.

Learn more: Improve Assessment

Efficiently Manage Large Enrollment Courses

ANGEL Master Courses ensure consistent pedagogy, instructional integrity and course look and feel across all sections of large enrollment courses.

• Individual course sections refer to the content in the ANGEL Master Course.
• A designated lead instructor has permission to edit Master Course content.
• Changes made to Master Course content apply to all course sections.
• Flexible permissions give alternate instructors such as course section teaching assistants rights to supplement Master Course content with unique files, assessments and other learning objects to enable individualized instruction.

Maintain Consistent Pedagogy

Promote effective lesson design and ready-to-use learning models with ANGEL Content Templates. Use the content template tool to create and publish lesson module templates complete with directions and the ability to personalize course content. Simplify content creation by designing content wizards – embedding consistent pedagogy into the wizard steps. Further customize the learning experience using ANGEL’s automated Agent Technology, tokens and environment variables.

• Model Preferred Pedagogy & Share Best Practices
• Content Template & Wizard Tools
• Specify Access & Search Settings
• Import or Link to Content
• Incorporate Active Learning and Collaboration Tools
• Introduce & Configure Automation Capabilities
• Simplify & Manage Content Reuse, Sharing
• Integrate CD Rom / Rich Media

Standards Leadership

Quickly adopting and integrating emerging standards for interoperable, accessible and reusable learning content into ANGEL helps bring standards to reality and reflects the ANGEL open system philosophy.

Learn More: Standards Leadership

VALUE: ANGEL's built-in Learning Content Management capabilities require no additional investment.