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Linking to documents in the Faculty Help Library

The Faculty Help Library is a repository of simple and concise directions on individual ANGEL tasks. Tasks like setting your gradebook up for the 4 point grade scale, how to add a discussion forum, how to use a dropbox. These documents are best kept in a hidden folder within your course. Over time, useage of the Library will see you accumulating a list of documents to assist you in creating and maintaining your ANGEL course. This will be a custom manual for your course, and will also help others who assist or inherit your course in the future.

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 and scroll all the way down the list. On 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 Faculty 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 the exception "Plugins and 3rd party applications" and "Miscellaneous Course Management items".
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.

There's a Student Help Library too!

Great for creating orientation's for your students, the ANGEL Help Library also has a "Student Help Library". The process for adding content from the Student Help Library is located at http://vudat.msu.edu/shl.