Archive for February 1st, 2010
ANGEL Institutional Directory Changes
Audience: ANGEL Administrators
What’s New: WAOL staff are currently simplifying the Directory structure, moving each school up one level, to be directly under the top, Institution level. (As part of the 7.4 upgrade, schools were place under the Institution > WAOL level, and this is correcting that.)
The directory structure will look different for ANGEL administrators; however, we do not anticipate any effect for end users.
What you’ll see: For example, the old style was Institution > WAOL > P010 and the new style is Institution > P010.
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WAOL Book Order Deadline: Friday, February 5th
Deadline for submitting your Spring book orders is Friday, February 5th.
Audience: Faculty teaching WashingtonOnline shared courses
- Lead instructors: Please take a moment to confirm that your texts for Spring are updated and correct.
If you are changing your texts let Monique Kovalenko (mkovalenko@sbctc.edu) know ASAP so she can pass that information along to other instructors teaching your course. - All other instructors: please check the book order report to be sure you are offering the most current texts.
Click on this link for steps to entering your Book Order - If you do not go in and update the Spring book order then we will assume there are no changes and the books that were used for Winter quarter will be ordered for Spring quarter. If your course is not being offered this quarter then please disregard this request.
A VERY IMPORTANT NOTE: We have come to see that many students are using services like Amazon to order their texts. This is causing BIG problems for those courses that have custom bundled texts or special order items.
We’ve discovered:
- Students often use our eCampus bookstore to locate their texts then order them elsewhere.
- Students often bypass their campus bookstores and order from services like Amazon.
- This can, and has, resulted in the wrong course materials for students who have courses that list bundled/custom texts.
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PRO98 was down
The WAOL HP3000 went offline briefly this morning; however, it is back up now.
This system impacts registrations into WAOL courses at your school, along with several WAOL.org forms including the ITT Approval Form.
If you experience any further problems with these functions, please let the WAOL office know.
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