SUNY Orange

Course Screen

The first screen that appears upon entering any course is the Course page. Your instructor uses this page to post course announcements, news, and question polls. The Activity-at-a-Glance shows your progress in the course – course logons, discussion posts and submissions. Your course grade along with the class average is also displayed.

course screen example

Course Navigation

Click the Guide icon ( guide button) located at the top of the icon navigation to display the Course guide which includes the Map, What’s New, Tasks, and Search. The Map provides a course-at-a-glance view one-click access to all course content.

Click the What’s New hyperlink located at the bottom of the guide to display a list of calendar items, content items, etc. for the course that have changed since the last time since you logged into the class.

The Tasks hyperlink displays Milestones, Personal Tasks as task items to be completed. Search hyperlink provides the ability to search calendar, content or roster entries.

Course tabs allow you to navigate to a specific area of the course. The tabs consist of Course, Calendar, Learning Modules, Resources, Communicate, and Report.

As you navigate through the course tabs, the Breadcrumbs (below the course tabs) update to provide hierarchical context for the current content item or tool.

Note: Throughout Angel documentation, Angel will refer to the Learning Modules tab as the Lessons tab. These terms are interchangeable. The content for your course will be located in the Learning Modules tab.

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