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Most commonly used search term to find ahotw.com? Angel.

Andrew — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 00:35:54 +0000

This is what would be considered a low traffic blog. Heck, it’s even a low posting blog. Of all the posts that I’ve made, only two have been about Angel Learning (it had annoying problems, and I’m sure it still does). Despite that, over half of the searches that resulted in a visitor to this site included the term ‘angel’ (generally combined with either ‘education’ or ‘learning’). Interestingly enough, one of the visitors to ahotw.com was from Indianapolis, IN, which is where Angel Learning is based in, who visited the category page for ‘Angel Learning‘.

Angel Fails at Math

Andrew — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 21:22:44 +0000

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.

Things that bug me about Angel (Education Portal) – Part 1

Andrew — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 06:03:28 +0000

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.)