Archive for March, 2009
Reminder: WAOL ANGEL for Spring
Most classrooms supported by WAOL are moving to ANGEL for Spring 09. Here are a few reminders as the quarter begins:
- For non-shared courses, colleges now choose the dates. Students are given access to the classroom one week before instruction begins.
- For shared courses, the classroom open date is March 26, and instruction begins April 2
- Students will be directed to WAOL ANGEL from the WAOL web site http://www.waol.org
- WAOL has also created a Blackboard classroom for each class to which all students have been attached. We inserted into each class an announcement directing students to WAOL ANGEL.
- If the instructor intends to continue to teach in Blackboard for Spring quarter, the INSTRUCTOR must post a message in his/her ANGEL classroom to let students know they must go to Blackboard. We have information on how to do that on this page: http://waol.org/faculty_and_staff/angelSupport.aspx
- WAOL’s Blackboard contract ends June 30, so no one will be allowed to begin SUMMER 09 on WAOL Blackboard.
Logging in:
- The student user ID in ANGEL does not have the leading “waol.” To log into ANGEL, students type in their SID alone, no dashes or spaces. (Example: 123456789)
- The default password is the first five letters of the last name. All users are encouraged to change their passwords immediately on first logging in to WAOL ANGEL.
- All users should also check and correct their email address so they can use the fabulous feature in ANGEL—I Forgot My Password!
Here are some resources for your faculty and students:
- Technical support is available 24×7 for faculty and students here http://www.waol.org/general_info/help_desk.aspx
- The WAOL web site has a Week Zero for students to learn ANGEL http://www.waol.org/current_students/weekZero.aspx
- The WAOL web site also has resources for instructors: http://www.waol.org/faculty_and_staff/angelSupport.aspx
- Instructors who want personal assistance with ANGEL can work with
Boyoung Chae bchae@sbctc.edu
Jesse Sims jsims@lcc.ctc.edu
Please don’t hesitate to call the WAOL toll free number (888-580-9011) if we can help in this transition or if you have any feedback or suggestions.
ELATEwiki: Electronic Learning And Teaching Exchange
ELATEwiki is the Electronic Learning And Teaching Exchange created and edited by those interested in advancing the use of technology in teaching. This site is intended to host a wealth of freely available information categorized and organized into E-Learning and Teaching topics useful to teachers, scholars, students, and administrators seeking to understand the dynamic and changing higher education landscape during this critical time of transformation. We would like to invite you to contribute to this community by adding several topics in your area of expertise.
Upon visiting ELATEwiki at www.ELATEwiki.org, you will notice a heading called: Create Pages. You can click a link here to contribute a page related to Course Issues, Instructors, Students, or Tools. A template will appear for your addition. After your initial entry (as founding author for a topic) others will continue to build upon and develop your material. We hope to create an open atmosphere of sharing and collegial scholarship that results in better teaching and learning for everyone.
All materials in this wiki will be released under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike license.
Please visit ELATEWiki and join in our efforts!
Thanks
Dr. Roger McHaney
University Distinguished Teaching Scholar
Kansas State University
WAOL Advisory Group Meeting: March 23rd recording
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ANGEL Domain Admin Access to WAOL dev server
Please read this carefully.
Sometime this week everyone with college domain admin access on WAOL ANGEL will be receiving an email that tells them they now have an account on the WAOL ANGEL development server. Please make sure the WAOL ANGEL admin on your campus has this information.
Here’s the story:
WAOL has purchased one seat of online ANGEL administrator training for each college. Our intention was that college domain administrators take the training from within their own college domains on WAOL ANGEL. We have two goals in using the production server for this training:
- College domain administrators would be taking the training in the same environment in which they will be using WAOL ANGEL with the same level of permissions and access allowed in a single college domain.
- College domain administrators would provide testing for the domain set up as they take the training. (This has worked well in finding flaws or issues in the set up.)
Some college domain administrators have complained that they need a development server on which to do the training exercises because they have real students active in their WAOL ANGEL domains (ahead of our schedule).
So we are providing access to all college domain administrators to the WAOL ANGEL developmental server as a place to do the exercises in the online admin training.
However—and read this carefully—
The development server is not the same environment college domain administrators will be working in on WAOL ANGEL production server. The WAOL ANGEL development server is NOT set up in domains, and we not intend to set it up with all 35 domains. In addition, college domain administrators will have full system administrator access in WAOL ANGEL development server.
What does that mean? On the dev server, college administrators will be able to do things they will not be able to do on production—and most likely they are things college domain administrators will NEVER do on WAOL ANGEL production.
Please remember that anything your college WAOL ANGEL admin does on the development server
- Is not a good test of what a college will do or how a college can do it within the college domain in a real situation.
- Is on a development server and could be lost or changed at any time. Please don’t put anything on the development server that you want to keep. Anyone who has access will be able to change or delete anything done on this server.
- Is focused on completing the ANGEL Admin Training for your college domain administrator.
- Is used to test new features (batch enrollment, SQL Query Manager, etc.)
If your domain administrator wonders why he/she cannot do something on production that could be done on development, please forward him or her to this post.
If it is something you think the domain administrator should have access to, please ask me to add it to the ANGEL Admin Work Group agenda, and we’ll discuss it as a group.
How to Upgrade from Elluminate v 8.5 to v 9.0
Steps to create a new meeting in v 9.0:
- Login to your account at: https://sas.elluminate.com/
- Click on “Schedule a Meeting” on the left-hand side of the page.
- Fill out the session name.
- Extend the dates of the session out one year, so this session is always available to you.
- Click on “Show Default Fields” on the left-hand side of the page.
- Under “Version,” choose 9.0 from the dropdown box.
- Remember to select your college under the “Cost Center” dropdown box.
- Click on “Save Current Settings as Default” on the right-hand side of the page.
- Click on “Create the Session” on the right-hand side of the page.
- This confirms and displays the Guest Link and sends an email to you.
- Send the Guest Link to invite others to join your session.
Steps to Upgrade an Existing Session:
- Login to your Elluminate account at: https://sas.elluminate.com/
- Click on the “Utilities” tab at the top of the page.
- Click on the “Meeting” icon under “Session Management.”
- Click on the grey box (left-hand side) next to your list of sessions.
- This will highlight each session one at a time.
- Click on “Edit” on the toolbar above.
- This opens the fields on the right hand side of the screen.
- Click on the dropdown box “Version” and select 9.0.
- Click on “Save” on the top right hand side of the page.
- Confirm the “Refresh Table” popup by selecting “Yes.”
Teleconference Connection Information:
- Click on the Moderator Link and go into your Session.
- Click on the small telephone icon that has a wrench through it—the last icon on the right at the bottom of the page. (If you mouse over it, it will say “Configure the telephone connection information.”)
- Fill in the conference telephone number and PIN.
- Insert two commas before the PIN. This inserts a pause to ensure the bridge is ready to accept your PIN.
- For additional information: http://www.elluminate.com/support/v9-release/index.jsp
WAOL Advisory Group Meeting; March 16th recording
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Wednesday, March 18th; Last day of instruction for ALL Winter 09 Shared Courses
WAOL winter grades for ALL shared courses are due next Monday, March 23rd, and need to be submitted no later than midnight or they do not get recorded and sent off to the students’ enrolling colleges.
Student access to their ANGEL or BB account and winter classrooms will be turned off on Wednesday, March 25th. If there are any grade changes that need to be made after March 23rd they will need to be emailed directly to our office. We will then make the change in the WAOL winter 09 database and send them off to the appropriate college.
Click here for instructions on Web Grading and here for assigning an Incomplete Grade in a WAOL course.
Any grade changes made after 3/23/2009 must be sent to: Monique Kovalenko (mkovalenko@sbctc.edu) and Brook Bane (bbane@sbctc.edu)
ANGEL Week Zero Tutorial Available
Thanks to Kathy Brooks and Centralia College, WashingtonOnline now has an ANGEL Week Zero Tutorial available. To access the course go to our ANGEL login page and use the login information below:
- username: weekzero
- password: guest
WAOL Advisory Group Meeting; March 9th recording
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Book Order Report goes live Monday, March 9th
Click here to view the Spring Book Order.
