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>>I would like to talk in this video a little bit
about how your Angel course may be organized
and how Angel itself is organized overall.
I'm going to talk about your homepage,
your courses you may be taking
and what your individual course may look like.
So, first off your homepage.
This is my homepage.
You can see in the upper left corner it does say
"home", so it's my homepage.
When you log in, you will be logged
into that person's homepage.
So, if you long in as cc underscore guest,
you are on their homepage.
If you log in with your name and log-in,
you will be at your homepage, and you are allowed
to edit this page and add and move components
around as you would like.
When you get totally lost in Angel, one thing you do want
to do is come back to your homepage
and we'll use the button on the left-hand side at the top
of the power strip, the one shaped like a little house
to return to your homepage at any time.
One of the things you do have on your homepage is the list
of all the courses you are taking.
At the very bottom left of this screen, you can just start
to see the courses list, so here
on the next slide I'm showing my whole list of courses.
So, you'll see, I have an Angel Week Zero course,
and a CC Angel Training course and a number
of things that I am working on.
To enter any of those courses, I just click on the name
of the course that is actually a hyperlink, so it's pretty easy
to find your individual courses.
Once you get into a course,
it may look differently depending upon what a particular
teacher has done.
You'll probably, in every course you get into,
want to go right into the Lessons tab.
That's the easiest thing to start with.
This is a look at the Lessons tab in our Week Zero course
for our students to start off with in Angel.
You can see it has a particular look to it.
There are these little cute pictures
and those are actually links you can click on.
There are words under the pictures;
underneath those are even smaller words,
kind of a subtitle to give hints
as to what each one of these things does.
This looks this way because me, your instructor,
I chose to make it look to this way.
I chose the icons and the arrangement of three columns.
But your class may look more like this.
This is a pretty typical look for an Angel class.
A syllabus, I'm in the Lessons tab by the way,
there's a syllabus at the top, and then there's a folder
for Lessons zero, a folder for Lesson 1 a folder for Lesson 2
and each one of those folders will have content in it.
So, it just depends on your instructor what you get.
I'm going to go back to the previous slide for a moment,
and I want to make note that all these cute little icons are
really just folders.
I just changed the pictures so they look differently,
so they are just folders, exactly the same
as in this first level content in a course.
Here's another look at a course.
This one has a lot more stuff in it.
It has a syllabus at the top again and then folders
for assignments 1, assignment 2 and even a stop, when it's time
to perhaps go take an exam or study
for an exam or do something.
So, the first level content in your course,
every course you take, may look different,
but hopefully they are all organized in a way.
We do like to talk to our instructors here
about nesting their content,
organizing their content so it makes sense.
So one way you might find when you get into the Lessons tab,
there is a folder for instructions.
And when you open that up, you'll find instructions
for Week 1, and Week 2, and Week 3 and on and on.
Then you have a folder for readings
and all the reading assignments are in there.
All the homework assignments are in one folder, etc.,
etc. Probably though, more likely, you're going
to see nesting more like this
where you instructor has chose an organization perhaps by week;
Week 1, Week 2, Week 3, noticed the typo on this one,
or your instructor may have organized it by lessons;
Lesson 1, Lesson 2, Lesson 3, or chapters; Chapter 1,
Chapter 2, Chapter 3, someway.
And, inside each one of those folders then is the content
for that week or that chapter or that lesson.
This is a much more common way for content in our courses,
so when you get into the Lessons tab, look around.
Read what it says.
Read the subtitles under the items as well
and don't be afraid to click on one and look inside.
Next, I want to show you how Breadcrumbs work within Angel.
Let's take a look in this practice course
at how nesting works and how the Breadcrumbs work within Angel.
You can see I'm actually in the Lessons tab and if you look
in the upper left corner, you'll see I started at my homepage,
I went to this particular course,
and I'm on the Lessons tab, you can see the words that show
that path I have taken.
I'm going to click on Lesson 1 and you notice that list
up at the top just got longer.
It now says "Home Course", "Lessons", "Lesson 1".
These are the breadcrumbs
that are showing me where I have gone.
I'm going to go into the extra credit assignment folder
for this class.
And, again, the Breadcrumbs have changed.
I can now read the explanation of the extra credit,
and again the Breadcrumbs have changed.
So, what's the purpose of Breadcrumbs?
Let's say I want to go back to the Lessons tab.
There are many ways I could accomplish that in Angel.
I could just click on the Lessons tab.
I could use my browser window and click back, back, back,
back, back or I can just go up to the Breadcrumbs and click
on Lessons and I'm right back where I was.
So, again let me show you, as I get deeper and deeper
into the content, if I just want to go back to Lesson 1,
I can click on that there.
Again, perhaps I just want to go to home, I can click on home.
Or I can go back to the beginning
of my course, if I want to.
There are a number of things.
Breadcrumbs are just a faster way to move around
and make it very efficient.
Hope you enjoyed this quick explanation.