Introduction
The Learning Object Repository (LOR) is a place for you to store course content which can be used across courses, course sections, departments and schools. Every Faculty with an ANGEL account has a personal LOR. Departments and schools can request a LOR to maintain standardized content for their curriculum.

Important Differences Between Linking and Copying
You can link to an item in the repository or you can copy it into your course. Each process gives you different results:

• If you link to an item in the LOR, this item is not actually imported into your ANGEL course. The original remains in the LOR, and a representational image appears in the course that just links to the original content item.
  
  The advantage of linking to content in the LOR is that if you need to make a change to the content, you edit the original in the LOR and the changes cascade to all of the linked versions of the item. With linked items, you upload the item once and not multiple times.
   
• Copying is actually importing a duplicate of an item into your course.
   

Items appropriate for linking	Items appropriate for copying
pages files links games	quizzes surveys dropboxes any items which you might associate with the gradebook.

 

Accessing Your LOR
 

1.  Log on to ANGEL

2.  From the Home Page, under Repositories, click on the title of your Personal LOR (Example- Personal:Jane Doe Or click on the Learning Repository icon  from the tool tab on the left and then select the Repository tab.

3.   When you enter the Personal LOR your will be in the Respository area. The Repository area, looks and acts alot like the Lessons area. You will be able to add all of the same content items you can within a course from the Lessons tab.  

Note: In the upper right, you should see the title of your LOR. This title indicates you are working in the LOR and not in the course.

Import from your LOR
Step 1- Make you LOR content accessible

1.   Log on to ANGEL

2.   From the Home Page, under Repositories, click on the title of your Personal LOR (Example- Personal: Jane Doe).

3.   Select the Manage tab

4.   Under Repository Access, select the Course and Group Access link.

5.   From the Repository Association Editor page, select either my course or my group, depending on whether you want to share content with a course or an ANGEL community group. A listing of all the courses/groups will appear.

6.   Select the courses/groups you want to share content with your LOR.

7.   Click the Add Selected button. Then click Exit.

Note: To remove a course (break the association between the LOR and the course): Select the course/group you want to remove and click the Remove Selected button.

Step 2 - Link or Copy LOR Content

1.   Log on to ANGEL

2.   Enter the course in which you want to import content.

3.   Click the Add Content link

4.   Click the Import from Learning Object Repository link. The Import from the Learning Object Repository page appears.

6.   Under Browse, select the Repository from the drop down menu. Click the Browse button.

7.   From the Course/Group browser, you should see the items in your LOR. This replicates the items in the Lessons area of your LOR.

8.   Select the items you want to import to your course.

9.   Choose link to create a link to the item. Choose copy to copy the item into the course.
Items that are linked will have the small arrow denoting a shortcut.
          
 

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