This is the product we've all been seeking in making a change to a learning-centered model of education. Angel offers both a web portal and a course management system. The web portal feature customizes the school's Web site for each user when they log in with a user name and password. Students see information and links to resources pertaining to students and faculty see information and links to resources pertaining to faculty. Visitors with no password see a generic page.
Angel changes all that.
Angel provides a set of core components free to non-profit U.S. educational institutions that makes it possible for each institution to quickly and affordably develop a portal for teaching and learning that meets its own specific needs. The course management part of the software allows schools to create a web environment for every course, as well as for campus groups or organizations. Professors can post grades, offer exams, hold discussions, and publish assignments and reading material. Each of these sites also contains a calendar, message boards, chat groups, statistics about student participation and more. Users can also post and respond to classified ads on the site.