ANGEL Update
January 25, 2010 at 4:22 pm 2 comments
Audience: ELC, Faculty and ITC
What’s New: The WAOL Advisory Group met Monday, January 25, and discussed the effects of re-enabling the “What’s New” feature in WAOL ANGEL. We turned What’s New on this morning at 9am and immediately saw degraded performance.
The Advisory Group voted unanimously that we should preserve performance over features, so we are asking ANGEL to disable What’s New again. The process to disable will be completed during the night to have the least effect on users.
We know that What’s New is a very useful tool. Tomorrow WAOL staff will be meeting with ANGEL staff to work on a way to configure What’s New so we can turn it back on without degrading system performance.
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Laura | January 25, 2010 at 5:22 pm
I found the “What’s New” program less helpful than suggested here. If it is re-instated, it would be great to have a brief review (perhaps here) of how it is helpful for faculty and students. When it was up, I would close it because I felt like it got in the way of my announcements page- detracting from that important feature. I’m finding that students (particularly my freshmen comp students) are able to take more in when the page is focused and clear. But, like I said, if I can see a quick bullet list of the benefits that I would use and be able to sell to students, I would be open to learning more.
Thanks!
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waol | February 1, 2010 at 4:32 pm
Thank you Laura, you make good points; I’ll be sure your input is forwarded along to our faculty trainer.