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Linking to documents in the Student Help Library

The Student Help Library is a repository of simple and concise directions on individual ANGEL tasks and media types students will frequently encounter. The help docs cover myriad tasks such as submitting documents to a dropbox and how to use ANGEL mail, to how to test for and obtain video plugins. These documents are best stored in a folder labeled "Technology Walkthrough" or "Orientation".

We have found that acclimating your students ANGEL before the course begins reduces redundant questions about ANGEL, and lowers student anxiety about course communications and activities. An even more effective method is using an *orientation quiz that will keep students locked out of your content until they have successfully completed their ANGEL orientation. We have found that once students are acclimated to ANGEL, they focus on course content much more ease, without the stress of learning ANGEL while learning course content.
*Ask your vuDAT producer or help desk operator more about orientation quizzes.

To locate and use the library, follow this path:

1. From within your course click the Lessons Tab.
2. From the Lessons Tab page, click "Add Content"
3. From the list content items, click "Import from Learning Object Repository"
4. From the dropdown menu near the top of the page (under the word "Section"), open the menu ans scroll all the way down the list. On of the list you will find "Repository: ANGEL Help Library" - Select this Library and click the Browse button under the drop down menu.
5. The page will change and you will see a 2 folders; one called "Faculty Help Library" and the other called "Student Help Library". Click Student Help Library.
6. Within this folder you find various documents and folders containing help documents you can link to. Navigate around to see what is available, the folders are organized by ANGEL Tabs with additional the additional topics "Navigation", "Plugins", "Miscellaneous", and "Basic Student Orientation".
7. When you find a document you want to Link add a check mark next to that item then click the "Link to Items" button to link or fully copy the help document.
8. When you click the "Link to Items" button the following page will tell you how many items were imported to your destination course, and there will be two buttons: "Continue" and "Done". If you have more to do, click Continue if you are done click Done.

Do I link or do I copy?? You've probably noticed you can also copy help docs from the library. For the most part, you should only link documents. When you link documents you maintain a connection between the document you select for your course, and the ANGEL Help Library. This benefits you in that when the document is updated by the vuDAT staff, your document updates too as a result of it being linked. Conversely, when you copy a document, the connection between the document and Library is severed, cutting you off from any updates made to the master document. The only documents you should copy are the very few that are titled "COPY INTO YOUR COURSE".

There's a Faculty Help Library too!

Great for creating your own custom set of ANGEL help documents, the ANGEL Help Library also has a "Faculty Help Library". The process for adding content from the Faculty Help Library is located at http://vudat.msu.edu/fhl.