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ANGEL/Elluminate Updates

September 15, 2008

The first meeting of the WAOL Council on September 8 gave us some good feedback and information.  Here’s the link to the ELC wiki:

http://wadlc.wikispaces.com/WAOL+Council+Home 

And the link to the archived session of the September 8^th meeting:

View the Elluminate Live! recording

Elluminate:

·         We have enabled accounts for six colleges so far.  In the process, we discovered a few things that need clarification:

o   The user ID must be in all caps.

o   The option for technical support for administrators when they call Elluminate has changed from “4” to “2.”

o   Use of WAOL Elluminate is FREE, unlimited and available to anyone in our system.  You do not have to use WAOL to deliver courses to use WAOL Elluminate.

o   Elluminate can be integrated with Blackboard. We will not integrate with WAOL Blackboard since WAOL is moving off Blackboard this year.  If a college wants to integrate the WAOL Elluminate with the college Blackboard, they can do so.  Here’s the link to information on that Building Block: http://www.elluminate.com/blackboard_building_block.jsp

o   Training is free and through Elluminate.  We require training of the college Elluminate administrator, and we suggest colleges require training of anyone who gets an account through a college.  When you sign up for the training for Elluminate, they ask you to create an account.  That account is with Elluminate for their training registration, and WAOL has no access to it nor will lit give a person access to WAOL Elluminate.

 ANGEL:

·         ANGEL sandboxes—To this point we have asked people to get sandboxes from ANGEL rather than from WAOL so that they can receive support from ANGEL.  We will be creating accounts in WAOL ANGEL in the next few weeks.  We will create an account for everyone who already has an account on WAOL Blackboard, and we will also have a procedure to create accounts for people who are new to WAOL. 

·         13 classrooms will be delivered Fall 08 on the WAOL ANGEL production server.

·         Those classrooms can continue on ANGEL Winter 09.  We will also be able to support additional classrooms during Winter 09.

·         WAOL System-Owned Shared courses will be moved to ANGEL for Winter 09.  Undetermined other college courses will be tested as well; however, our first goal for Winter is to test the WAOL integration processes.

·         Blackboard to ANGEL training materials are under development and will be available in October.  Boyoung Chae is doing this work now that Jane McCarville is working at NIC.

·         The Blackboard to ANGEL migration plan has two phases, and WAOL staff are focused right now on Phase One. 

o   Phase One:  Successfully replicate what WAOL does right now on Blackboard

o   Phase Two:  Create processes and access so colleges can manage ANGEL in their own domains.

Next Meeting:

·         The WAOL Council will meet every other week in Elluminate.  The next meeting is at 11:00 on Monday, September 22.

·         Anyone is welcome; however, meeting information will go to the ELC listserv.  Please forward to others on your campus.

Discussion and documents are at the ELC wiki  http://wadlc.wikispaces.com/WAOL+Council+Home 

Other information on Elluminate and ANGEL are on waol.org:  http://www.waol.org/faculty_and_staff/angel_migration.aspx

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