Manage the Classroom
Teachers are always looking for ways to decrease the amount of time they must spend on the administrative duties of a classroom so they can focus on teaching their students and developing their curriculum. Duties like responding to e-mails, collecting homework, grading exams, and entering grades into a gradebook cut into valuable class time or require additional time spent outside of school. The ANGEL Learning Management Suite (LMS) offers features that help teachers maximize their valuable time.
Enable Home and School Communication
Studies have shown that parental involvement in a student's education leads to improved performance. Parents, and mentors, are important stakeholders and partners in the educational development of their students. ANGEL’s “Insight Window” makes it easy for parents to monitor their child’s progress, communicate with teachers, and participate in their student's school life. Advisors and other mentors can access the information they need and proactively intervene when necessary.
- Monitor student progress – review grades, assess lesson performance, check attendance, view calendars and announcements.
- Securely share learning performance through course mail without leaving ANGEL.
- Receive notifications of at-risk behavior and performance.
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VALUE: ANGEL’s fully integrated “Insight Window” requires no additional investment.
Manage Homework Electronically
The ANGEL LMS provides a better way for teachers to manage homework assignments. Teachers save time, eliminate paper waste, and end claims of lost homework through ANGEL's management capabilities. And what's more, there's no more carrying stacks of notebooks home to be graded!
- Add assignments to the class calendar and announcements – keep both students and parents informed of due dates.
- Collect student work electronically – use ANGEL dropboxes to organize work by subject and period so it won’t get lost or clutter an inbox.
- Grade student work electronically – automatically post grades and add comments directly to students’ work.
- Make class material available 24/7/365 – eliminate lost homework assignments.
Leverage an Integrated Gradebook
The ANGEL LMS ships with an integrated gradebook, increasing teacher efficiency and eliminating manual efforts. Teachers can grade an assignment, or have ANGEL do it for them, and once the grade is assigned the grade is automatically posted to the gradebook. Assessment grading and re-grading can also be automated in ANGEL.
- Replace the scantron method of old by having ANGEL automatically grade online quizzes and tests.
- Establish grading rubrics for discussion forums, reducing the time involved in grading discussion posts and allowing for peer input into the grading process.
- Engage students in the class by planning ahead and adding comments for a specific release date.
- Quickly identify ungraded items at sign in.
- When an error is found, re-grade items and immediately update the gradebook for all students with the click of a button.
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Create a Virtual Assistant
The ANGEL LMS comes with time-saving agent technology that allows teachers to automatically respond to student activity, perform repetitive tasks, or release information and curriculum at a specific time or in response to student performance.
- Provide personalized communication – send e-mails when student work is missing, praise students when they reach a mastery level, encourage them when they perform poorly, forward reminders of upcoming due dates
- Schedule further student activity – release remedial lesson material or schedule a conference meeting if a student is unsuccessful with an assessment
- Post grades automatically – release grades on a specific date rather than when they are actually graded, automatically grade assessments when they are taken, use rubrics to grade discussion forums
- Lock or release curriculum &ndash release lesson components only when a student has reached a pre-determined level or completed assignments
- Manage student groupings – re-assign students based on activity
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Develop and Manage Curriculum
Developing engaging, rigorous, and relevant curriculum takes time and energy on the part of a dedicated teacher, department, or school. That effort can be wasted if each teacher functions in the isolation of his or her own classroom. The ANGEL LMS makes is easy to maximize the investment a school makes in curriculum by providing the resources and structure needed to connect teachers, departments, and schools. With the ANGEL LMS, schools and districts can:
- Create standards-based digital curriculum items
- Share, review and reuse curriculum items across classes, schools and districts
- Promote consistent pedagogy across classes
- Provide anytime / anywhere access
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VALUE: ANGEL's built-in Learning Content Management capabilities require no additional investment.
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