Archive for August, 2008
WAOL 7358 – Race & Ethnic Relations: Book Update
The book for this course:
ISBN : 9781412915212
Title : Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and Class; The Sociology of Group Conflict and Change
Author(s) : Healey, Joseph
Edition : 4th
Is now out of print and has moved to the 5th edition (9781412958622).
The instructor will work with students who end up with the 4th edition.
Fall 08 Book Order Updates
Please note updates for the following WAOL courses:
- WAOL ID 7579: Introduction to Physical Science
- WAOL ID 7878: US History I
Click here for Book Report.
Instruction Fee for Shared Courses Will Change Fall 08
Based on the recommendation of the ELC and approved by the Instruction Commission, the WAOL Instruction Fee for Shared Courses will increase starting Fall 08. The current fee is $40 per credit per enrollment.
***New Fee Starting Fall 08: $50 per credit per enrollment***
Starting Fall 2008 WAOL will bill $50 per credit per enrollment to colleges that enroll students in SHARED courses on WAOL. The entire fee is passed through to the college that hires the instructor.
The fee has been $40 since WAOL started in 1998, but $40 no longer provides enough revenue to cover the costs of the college that hires the instructor. The ELC will work over the next year to develop a way to continue to keep the fee current.
Please note that the Instruction Fee is only for SHARED courses, that is, where the instructor and students are at different colleges. This is not the Technology Fee ($8 per credit per enrollment) that is applied to all courses supported by WAOL.
ANGEL Instructor Train the Trainer, September 11 OR 12
WAOL has purchased a total of 40 seats in Basic ANGEL Instructor Training. Identical sessions are scheduled for September 11 and 12. The sessions will be led by ANGEL trainers face-to-face in a computer lab. View the agenda.
Ø September 11 – Spokane Community College, Building 1, Room 1121
Ø September 12—Tacoma Community College, Building 28, Room 110
· Each college can send one person to one of the scheduled sessions. The idea is to send someone who will be providing support to your faculty who use ANGEL.
· The training is free.
· State Board eLearning team will provide lunch.
· Both sessions run from 9:00 to 4:30, and they will be identical.
· Send the name of the person who will attend from your college and the location/date you want to attend to Monique. First come, first served. If you will not be sending someone from your college, let us know so we can give that seat to someone else.
o Monique Kovalenko mkovalenko@sbctc.edu 888-580-9011
WAOL has also purchased 40 seats for Advanced Training, and those sessions will be offered later this fall.
ANGEL pilots for Fall 08
Here at WAOL we have been working on a plan to provide some limited classroom pilots of WAOL ANGEL during Fall 08. We think these pilots will be valuable to all users as we move forward with ANGEL; however, we don’t want to jeopardize any student work nor do we want to distract WAOL staff from the larger jobs of the existing Blackboard operation and the migration to and automation of ANGEL.
So here’s the deal for colleges:
· WAOL will support up to two classrooms per college on WAOL ANGEL during Fall 08. (Volunteers only!)
· All pilots will be managed through existing WAOL processes (WAOL ID number and Intent to Teach form, etc.) This will allow us to keep track of the pilots and enrollments through a WAOL ID number and will have the added benefit of creating shadow Blackboard classrooms and accounts as back up.
· The college elearning director must identify pilot instructors and classrooms through an email to Monique Kovalenko mkovalenko@sbctc.edu by September 5th.
WAOL will need to get the instructor names and classrooms from college elearning directors, not from individual instructors.
Here are the requirements for pilot instructors:
· Instructors should plan for the possibility of technical issues; hybrid courses might be the best choice.
· Instructors should not expect full training in ANGEL from WAOL and should plan to do some self-study on ANGEL (an ANGEL sandbox or other experience).
· Student-level information on ANGEL will not be posted on waol.org or on college sites, so the pilot instructors will be responsible to give their students any information needed to access and use ANGEL. Presidium and the WAOL Instruction Office will be available for technical support; it will help if users identify themselves as WAOL ANGEL users.
· Instructors must post a message in the shadow Blackboard classroom that tells students how to log into their ANGEL classroom.
· Pilot instructors will have access to whatever ANGEL training and documentation WAOL has available, but they must know that it will not be finished before the quarter begins. We are hoping instructors will give us valuable feedback on ANGEL during the quarter.
And before you send me a message asking how the pilots will work during Winter quarter—still under discussion. However, I will tell you that we are steadily moving forward with no serious issues so far. Yippee.
Let me know if you have any questions.
Thanks,
Connie
Summer08 Grades for Shared Courses Due Today
WAOL summer grades for ALL shared courses are due today. Grades not submitted by midnight do not get recorded and sent off to the students enrolling colleges. If there are any grade changes that need to be made after today they will need to be emailed directly to our office. We will then make the change in the WAOL summer 08 database and send them off to the appropriate college.
Please follow these directions for submitting your summer 08 grades:
WAOL Web Grading –
Grades are collected from instructor rosters in their “MyWAOL” accounts, not Blackboard. Please follow these instructions or check out the link below to find information on submitting your grades for summer quarter 2008. (http://www.waol.org/faculty_and_staff/webGrading.aspx)
WAOL Web Grading will be used rather than Instructor Briefcase to assign grades to students enrolled in any shared courses. Grades may be entered up until Monday, August 18th, after which WAOL Web Grading will be turned off.
Assigning Grades Using WAOL Web Grading -
Access the grading roster for current class sections by clicking the “View Your Course Sections” link on your MyWAOL page. Assign student grades using the Web Grading form and then click the “Save Grades” button at the bottom of the page to save the grades. You may partially complete the grade assignment process and return to finish it at a later time. In order to assign a failing grade to a student, you must fill in the “Last Date of Attendance” field. This date must be formatted MM/DD/YYYY and must be a valid date to be accepted.
Any grade changes made after August 18th must be sent to: Monique Kovalenko (mkovalenko@sbctc.edu) and Brook Bane (bbane@sbctc.edu)
WAOL Fall08 Book Report Update
Please note changes for the following WAOL courses:
- WAOL ID 2301: Engineering Graphics
- WAOL ID 6001: Business Communications
- WAOL ID 7568: Human Relations in Business
- WAOL ID 7618: Introduction to Business
- WAOL ID 7619: Business English
Click here for Book Report.
August 13th last day of instruction for Summer08 Shared Courses
Wednesday August 13th, is the last day of instruction for all summer shared courses.
WAOL summer grades for ALL shared courses are due next Monday, August 18th. Grades not submitted by midnight August 18th do not get recorded and sent off to the students enrolling colleges.
Student access to BB and their summer classrooms will be turned off on Wednesday, August 20th. If there are any grade changes that need to be made after August 18th they will need to be emailed directly to our office. We will then make the change in the WAOL summer 08 database and send them off to the appropriate college.
Please follow these directions for submitting your summer 08 grades:
WAOL Web Grading –
Grades are collected from instructor rosters in their “MyWAOL” accounts, not Blackboard. Please follow these instructions or check out the link below to find information on submitting your grades for summer quarter 2008. (http://www.waol.org/faculty_and_staff/webGrading.aspx)
WAOL Web Grading will be used rather than Instructor Briefcase to assign grades to students enrolled in any shared courses. Grades may be entered up until Monday, August 18th, after which WAOL Web Grading will be turned off.
Assigning Grades Using WAOL Web Grading -
Access the grading roster for current class sections by clicking the “View Your Course Sections” link on your MyWAOL page. Assign student grades using the Web Grading form and then click the “Save Grades” button at the bottom of the page to save the grades. You may partially complete the grade assignment process and return to finish it at a later time. In order to assign a failing grade to a student, you must fill in the “Last Date of Attendance” field. This date must be formatted MM/DD/YYYY and must be a valid date to be accepted.
Any grade changes made after August 18th must be sent to: Monique Kovalenko (mkovalenko@sbctc.edu) and Brook Bane (bbane@sbctc.edu)
