Home Page Components
Courses and Community Groups
The Courses and Community Groups sections of your home page gives you access to all the courses and groups for which you are enrolled. Click the Edit button in the Courses or Community Groups title bars to hide specific courses or groups or to customize the additional information displayed for each.
Toolbox
The Toolbox offers several useful tools designed to increase your productivity and further customize your ANGEL environment. The Bookmarks tool allows you to add your favorite web page links to your personal page for easy access and to sort them by categories. You may optionally set permissions on individual bookmarks to provide access to other users.
Create folders and files and upload images and documents to the Files tool (10 mb limit) for storage purposes or to publish content on the World Wide Web. The built-in HTML Editor allows you to create new web pages or edit existing ones with an easy to use word processing-style interface.
Calendar
The calendar allows you to keep track of important personal events. To add a personal item:
- Log into your ANGEL course and click the Calendar Tab.
- Click the Add hyperlink (located on the left side of the toolbar). The Event Settings form appears.
- Type the title of the calendar event into the Title field.
- Select the event category from the Category drop-down list.
- Select the Date, Time and Duration from the appropriate drop-down lists.
- Click the Save button. The Calendar screen appears, with your calendar entry listed.
Public Resources takes you to the Public Home page to access the Public Information resources and the Search and Help resources.
Preferences
The Preferences icon ( 
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allows you to personalize your profile, themes and PDA access.
Personal Information allows you to specify who can view each piece of personal information you enter. This information makes up your user profile. More on creating your user profile.
The Theme Selector allows you to select different ANGEL themes or even create your own to change how the environment looks when you login.
The PDA Agent allows you to download your lessons or forum messages to your PDA for offline viewing. Use of the PDA Agent requires a free service called AvantGo® (www.avantgo.com) which ships with most PDAs.
Instant Messenger
ANGEL provides an instant messenger tool that can be accessed from the
Instant Messenger icon ( 
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on the left power strip. Communicate online in the modes of today’s
learners – in real time.
To access Instant Messenger, click the messenger icon .
To converse with an online user, select their name from the To: drop-down
list, type your message and click the Send button.