Broken Links to a LOR?

We wish it didn’t happen, but there are times when the link between a Learning Object Repository (LOR) in ANGEL and a course breaks. When you notice broken links try reconnecting your LOR before you go item by item and recreate the links. Here are the steps to follow:

1. Go to your LOR.
2. Click Manage.
3. Click Course and Group Access.
4. On the right side of the screen, click My Courses.
5. Check the boxes for all of your current courses.
6. Click Add Selected.
7. Go back to your course and see if the links work.
8. Try to edit an assignment and see if that works.

ANGEL Tip: Using Question Banks

Building a Question Bank is a great tool for creating better assessments for your courses. Think of a Question Bank as a place to store all of your questions from semester to semester. You can create your own questions, or you can upload test banks from your publisher. When creating assessments, you can then pick and choose which questions from your Question Bank you want to include on each assessment.

When creating a Question Bank that you are going to use from semester to semester, you will want to create this Question Bank in your Personal LOR. Every course you are teaching will have access to your LOR, so you will be able to use those questions in any course for any semester.

If you already have an extensive Question Bank in one of your production courses or your Source Course, you can copy the questions into your Question Bank in your LOR.

Note: Sometimes access to your LOR becomes disconnected for some or all of your courses. If this happens, you can reestablish communication between your courses and your LOR by going to the Manage tab in your LOR, clicking on Course and Group Access, clicking on My Courses, then checking the box for all of your courses and choosing the Add Selected button.

Thanks to Tracy Newman for the tip.