Use ANGEL to Access Core Curriculum

The College of Agricultural Sciences has developed a core curriculum for the staff and faculty. This core curriculum will cover skills for Microsoft Office and other software. The courses you need to cover will be determined by your job responsibilities. Please check with your CED or RD if you're not certain which courses are necessary for you.

 

The Netg courses have 2 training paths to choose from. You can take the entire course with a Pre & Post Assessment or you can select a specific topic to concentrate your learning needs.

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Configure Your Computer

1. Web-Based Training courses talk to you so if you share an office, you may want to use headphones or turn down your speakers so you don't distract other staff in your office.
2. If you have Windows XP SP2 or any other Pop-up Blocker, Pop-ups need to be enabled.
   1. From the Tools menu of Internet Explorer, go to Pop-up blocker. Slide right to Pop-up Blocker Settings.
   2. In the Address of the Web site to allow, type wbt.psu.edu
   3. Click Add
   4. Click Close
3. Web-Based Training likes to use the screen resolution 1024 x 768. If your resolution is something other than 1024 x 768, you may get a screen resolution warning - click No to continue as is.
   1. If you want to change your screen resolution to 1024 x 768, go to the Start menu and choose Control Panels. Double click to open the Display properties dialog box.
   2. Click the Settings tab
   3. Change the slide rule under Screen Resolution to 1024 x 768.
   4. Click Apply and OK.

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Select the Course and Access WBT

1. Log into ANGEL, type in your user name and password.
2. Choose the appropriate group (Example: Core Curriculum - Northeast region). (Refer to How to Log on to ANGEL)
3. Click on the appropriate course listed.
4. You will see various things listed:
   • Now go to Web-Based Training to begin the course - which links to this How To.
   • How To's - links to our How To's for this topic.
   • Course Evaluation - Please complete this part after you take the course so ICT can see you progress.
   • Supplemental Materials - links to various other training materials related to this topic.
5. In the Navigation bar at top click Tools.
6. In the right column, choose Web-Based Training.
   • User View of Program window appears (if User View of Program window does not appear, click on Exit wizard in the upper right of the screen and then click on Show User View).
7. Click on course link listed under the Required or Recommended WBT courses area.
   • Penn State Web-Based Training window appears.
8. Read the overview of the course.
9. When ready click Take Training.
10. If you receive security warnings click OK or Yes or Allow (depending on your connection speed this could take a few moments).
11. Continue with the next section.

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Navigating and selecting your training path

Once you have logged into ANGEL and selected a course, you are in WBT and need to know how to navigate around the windows and screens.

 

If this is your first WBT course, you may want to click the Start Tutorial - 'Using this Course'.

• It will give you an overview of how to navigate in the windows.

Once you are in a course, you will see different colored boxes and various arrows.

• White box is the content of the course.
• Yellow box requires some type of action.
• To move to the next question, look at the top right corner (arrow).
• Top Right corner will show how many questions you have left.
• Make sure you read the boxes carefully and do exactly what is says to do.

Now you can decide if you are going to take the entire course or if you want to select a specific topic and learn about just that. There are also Pre and Post Assessments for each course. You can pick and choose what you want to learn.

 

Go here if you want to take the entire course (Take the Training with Pre & Post Assessments).

 

Go here, if you want to pick from a list of topics (Fast Track to a Topic).

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Take the Training with Pre & Post Assessments

1. At the Startup Options windows, click on Assess My Knowledge.
   • This is the pretest assessment and it is optional.
2. Beside Preassessment 1 click Start or Start Selected item.
   • This will lead you through the Preassessment questions.
   • You will only have one time to complete the assesment questions, so read carefully.
3. At the Assessment Introduction, read the information and click Start Assessment when you are ready.
4. Answer the questions to the best of your ability.
5. Once the assessment is complete, you will see your score (on the View My results tab).
   • Optional: Click Print Results in lower right-hand corner of screen.
6. Now you are ready to take the course.
7. Click Go To Course Map.
8. Select the part of the course you want to take.
   • Pay attention to the icons before each topic.
   • Click on the first item WITHOUT a checkmark.
     • Remember that you can NOT repeat the PreAssessment.
   • Click Start.
     • Checkmark means you have mastered the topic.
9. Click Start.
   
   
   

   NOTES:

   • White box is the content of the course.
   • Yellow box requires some type of action.
   • To move to the next question, look at the top Right corner (arrow).
   • Top Right area shows how many questions you have left.
   • Make sure you read the boxes carefully and do exactly what is says to do.
     
10. After the course is completed, you should contintue with the Post Assessment to see how you did overall.

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Take the Post Assessment

1. Click Start Assessment to begin.
2. Once the Post Assessment is complete, click on the + (plus) sign next to the topic.
   • This will give you the results of your Post Assessment.
   • If you want to take the post assessment again, click on Go To Course Map and select Post Assessment. Click Start.
3. When you've completed the Post Assessment, click Print Results.
4. If the course has more than one section, you can continue with the next Topic by taking the course and by completing the Post Assessment for that section.
5. How to Exit WBT and complete the Course Evaluation.

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Fast Track to a Topic

The Fast Track to a Topic allows you to pick and choose what topics you want to learn about in a given course. It allows you to concentrate on a specifc section or group of topics to cover your learning needs.

1. At the Startup Options windows, click on Fast Track to a Topic.
2. A list of topics for the given course are listed.
3. Select the topic you would like to learn about and click Start.
4. The training loads and begins.
5. Once this topic is done the program will continue with the next section. If you do not want to continue, from the Menu choose Fast Track to a Topic to select another topic.
6. Repeat steps 2 through 5 in this section.
7. When finished, go to the Exit Web-Based training section.

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Exit Web-Based Training (and return to ANGEL)

1. When you have completed a course and are ready to Exit the Web-Based Training, click on the Exit menu.
2. Click Yes.
3. Choose Yes or No, then Click OK.
4. At the Web-Based Training screen, click Logout at top left.
5. Close the WBT screen.
6. Click back to the Core Curriculum window in your Taskbar (if needed).

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Complete Course Evaluation

1. Click the Content tab.
2. Click Course Title for the course you just completed.
3. Click Course Evaluation.
4. Complete those questions. Click Submit
5. When finished, click Log Off in the upper right-hand portion of the ANGEL screen.
6. Click OK to successfully log out.
7. Click Logout.
8. Close your browser window.

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