How to Import Content from LOR
- Log into your ANGEL course and click the Lesson tab.
- Click the Add Content hyperlink.
- Click the Import from Learning Object Repository hyperlink or icon.
The Import from Learning Object Repository page appears.
- Select the appropriate course, group or repository from the drop-down list and click the Browse button. A list of lesson content items appears.
- Select the checkbox next to each content item you want to import.
- Selecting a checkbox next to a folder selects the folder along with its subitems.To view the content of a folder, click the folder’s title or icon. A list of all sub items appears.To examine content before selecting it, click on the item’s title or icon. The content item opens in a new window.
- Click the Copy Item or Link item button to insert the selected items into your course.
Copy or Link 
- Linking to items can be very useful but can also have unintended consequences. In particular, when linking to a quiz, survey, or drop box, student submission results are stored in the course repository and are not accessible from the course which contains the link. In some cases, this may be the desired outcome (i.e. course/instructor evaluations, standardized testing, departmental survey, etc.); however in most common cases you should copy these item types.
- When linking to a repository discussion forum, the forum postings are stored in the repository. The forum postings are still viewable from the course which contains the link; however, the discussion forum becomes shared among all of the courses that link to the discussion forum. This can be very useful for providing a shareddiscussion forum among several different courses.
- Linking is ideal for providing access to large media files such as audio and video lectures. This approach reduces unnecessary duplication and inefficient use of server hard drive space. Reports for linked items only allow top-level activity summary and detail reports of who has accessed the link. Reports for a linked folder do not provide any detail regarding who accessed sub-items within the link (folder). Those details are onlyavailable from within the repository.
- Another thing to think about is; will this document be changed? If the documentation you are importing from the LOR is changed by the editor and you copy it; any changes will not appear in your course. If you link to it, the changes will appear in your course site and you will always have access to the latest version.
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