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>> The more I play on Angel, the more I learn little small tricks
from other people that have really helped me and I'd
like to pass some of those along right now.
I'm in my Angel class, I've gone into the lessons tab I'm looking
at the discussion forum.
And I'm trying to reply to somebody down near the button
and there's no room to even work here.
So it's kind of frustrating to me.
So one of the things I've been noticing a lot lately is how
to make more room so I can have enough space to work.
So the first thing, on the left hand side
of the screen is a taskbar.
Now this particular bar may show different things depending upon
which item underneath the taskbar is clicked.
So if I click on map I see different things
on this little bar on the left side.
What's new?
Tasks, I really like the task one.
It will show me unread mail, unread discussion posts,
things I haven't graded.
But if I don't wanna look at this area right now,
just to the right of it are four triangles.
If I click on those four triangles it will collapse this
area and then make the right hand area, the screen larger.
So let me click on those four triangles, let me show you.
And just like that I have more room now.
If I need that area on the left hand side back I have the four
triangles showing again near the home button and I can click
and get it back anytime I want.
So that's an easy way right there to give myself more room
to do the work I need to do with an Angel.
The next thing is in the far upper right hand corner
and somebody just showed me this the other day
and I hadn't even known it before and it was just great.
Way in the upper right hand corner is a funny little button
with an arrow on it and that's this hide/show banner.
The banner is the stuff across the top of your Angel page,
mine right now says, S09 professional development.
I'm gonna click on this button on the upper right hand corner.
And look what happens all that stuff over the top disappears.
So suddenly again I have more room to work.
I can click on that button
in the upper right hand corner again and I get it back.
So it's hiding the name of my course and the navigation tabs
like lessons resources communicate.
But click I get more room.
Click again, hmm I get back the information I might need
to be able to be able to navigate through my course.
And the last thing I'm gonna show you is actually discussion
room specific and in my discussion forum,
I have my directions up at the top what the student should do.
I almost can read a post and I have a little tiny room
to write my reply near the right hand side I do have a scroll bar
which helps a little but man it's small.
But the directions to the left
of the word directions is a minus sign,
I can collapse my directions in a discussion forum click.
And now I have more room to type and to work on my reply
to this particular student.
So the directions can be collapsed.
The title bar information up near the top.
The banner can be collapsed and brought back and the tasks
on the left hand side or the map or what's new can be collapsed.
So ways to give yourself more room to work.
I hope this helps.