January 28, 2008 at 4:22 pm
· Filed under Angel Learning
Angel appears to be filled with inconsistencies throughout. Today I noticed the grade listing on the main page:

How exactly is one 100% and two 80%’s equal to an overall grade of 65%?
The grade, however, is correct in Angel’s ‘Grade book’ page.
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January 24, 2008 at 1:03 am
· Filed under Angel Learning
Over the past couple weeks, I have had three classes that utilize ANGEL Learning. The more that I use it, the more things that I find bug me about it. Some of these issues may be specific to the way that Instructional Technology & Distance Learning at Penn College or one of the professors use the portal, but since I have no way to verify this, I will assume that the problem lies with ANGEL.
To start this off, there is a calendar that aggregates all assignments and other notices from within all one’s classes. The calendars within each class section work perfectly fine in my opinion, but the combined calendar merges everything together, without even the slightest attempt to distinguish between different classes. See the following calendar for an example, can you tell the difference between the assignments?

If you mouse over, or click on the listed assignments, no additional information is shown. (In terms of what class calendar the event is from.)
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January 7, 2008 at 12:02 am
· Filed under Uncategorized
I finally decided to register the Netgear Switch that I purchased a couple weeks ago from Newegg.com. At Step 4, I reached what turned out to be the hardest part of the install:

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