Each semester VUdat surveys faculty and students about online learning at MSU. These surveys track uses and attitudes toward tools for online learning in fully online, hybrid, and enhanced courses. Tips and techniques compiled by VUdat producers appear at the end of the faculty surveys, offering possible solutions to faculty write-in requests.

Here are results from recent semesters:

Instructor and Students Perspectives on Online Teaching and Learning (n=141 Instructors, 3,641 Students)

Spring 2005 Faculty Survey (n=167)
Spring 2005 Student Survey (n=2504)
Fall 2004 Faculty Survey (n=160)
Fall 2004 Student Survey (n=3715)
Summer 2004 Student Angel as Supplement Survey (n=507)
Summer 2004 Fully Online Student Survey (n=263)
Summer 2004 Faculty Survey (29 respondents)
Spring 2004 Faculty Survey (103 respondents)
Spring 2004 Student Survey (1807 respondents)
Fall 2003 Faculty Survey (83 respondents)

Michigan State University owns a campus-wide license for ANGEL, a commercial Learning Management System (LMS), deployed on a university-wide scale.

Since fall 2003, ANGEL course space is automatically created for every course offered each semester. The faculty of record has access to course creation and administration tools. All enrolled students are also automatically have access to log in to the ANGEL course space.

vuDAT project leaders are available for pedagogical and design consultation. To set up an appointment, email vuDAT Director Dr. Joan Predko.

To see all courses you have access to, go to the MSU ANGEL home page and log on using your MSU ID and password. If you are the instructor of record for a course offered this semester, but that course does not appear after you log on, contact your department and ask them to be sure you are officially instructor of record.

ANGEL provides a range of tools for teaching and learning which can be used to enhance in person courses in addition to fully online courses. The phrase "hybrid course" is a hot new topic in education. It refers to courses which meet in a classroom but also use online tools to enhance the learning experience.

The question of which tools to use depends upon the content and style of each particular course. We are just beginning to understand how best to use online tools to enhance and extend in person courses. You're part of the university-wide exploration!

Teach Online Pedagogy and Techniques offers ideas about what is possible with ANGEL.

To get started with ANGEL, you can visit a demonstration course developed by Virtual University Design and Technology to show many of the features of ANGEL: ANGEL demo course

Libraries, Computing, and Technology offers training sessions about ANGEL .

The MSU HELP Line can answer technical support questions. Call Toll Free: 1-800-500-1554
(North America and Hawaii) or Local: (517) 355-2345.

When you log on the ANGEL home page, if you click on HELP in the lower left menu, you will see many resources related to ANGEL. The section for Faculty/Developer goes into specific detail about how to actually implement ANGEL functions in your ANGEL course space.

Here is a collection of links to online ANGEL resources:

Click on the headings and subtopics on the left to visit other areas.