Archive for April, 2010
WAOL Summer 2010 Enrollment Opens Today – 4/28/10
Enrollment for summer quarter 2010 opens today, Wednesday April 28th. Please be sure to remind faculty to submit their ITT’s if they have not done so yet. Students will not be able to register for a course until we receive the approved ITT from the ELC, so be sure to check for new incoming ITT’s so those can get approved and sent in to WAOL so we can get those into the system for registration. Thank you!
WAOL Advisory Group Meeting; April 19th Recording
Audience: ELC
Main Agenda Items: ANGEL Updates, Lecture Capture Updates, LMS Summit, Elluminate Guest Presentation
Meeting Take-Aways:
- Elluminate Profiles for everyone next time
- LOR in ANGEL is our next step
- Advertise Elluminate at my college
- May 3 meeting we’ll discuss Lessons Learned
- Give WAOL the okay for Secure Logon
- Tell faculty Nursing LOR is available
- Start thinking about LMS Summit – where do I want the system to go?
Click here for access to a list of all Advisory Group meeting recordings and slideshows.
Summer & Fall Intent to Teach Forms Now Available
Audience: ELC & WAOL Instructors
Please share: For those colleges using WAOL ID Integration and those who have instructors teaching WAOL shared or private courses the Intent to Teach (ITT) forms are now available for Summer & Fall quarters.
Please note: Students cannot register for WAOL courses until the ITT forms have been submitted and approved.
Important dates: WAOL Summer enrollment opens on Wednesday, April 28th and Fall enrolment opens Wednesday, May 12th.
Instructions: How to fill out Intent to Teach Forms
WAOL 10th Day Count -Instruction Fees
Audience: Registrars/ELC
Announcement: A reminder that today, Wednesday April 14th is the WAOL 10th day count; anyone who has not been dropped or withdrawn will remain on your college’s 10th day report for instruction fees during Spring quarter.
What does this mean: A 10th day report (which determines instruction fees) will be sent out tomorrow to verify that all your drops have been processed.
Faculty Learning Community Thursday 4/15
Audience: ANGEL Faculty
What: Faculty Learning Community
When: Thursday, April 15th from 3 – 4:30 pm
Drop in for the next faculty learning community meeting hosted by Shoreline Community College. We are focusing on instructional design in online and hybrid classes, using Quality Matters. Go here for meeting details. To participate via Elluminate:
Elluminate room: http://tinyurl.com/qualitymattersflc
(Just type in your name as no password is needed.)
ANGEL Learning Community-focus open forum and sharing WebQuests
Audience: Everyone with an interest in Angel should join us!
ANGEL Learning Community (ALC) in Elluminate @ 11am.
Open Forum -We welcome all questions
How: Join the THURSDAY sessions hosted by BTC and PC
The link for those sessions is:
http://tinyurl.com/yg3dkhl
Questions? Please contact:
Lesley Ann Wallace (lwallace@btc.ctc.edu) Eric Waterkotte (ericw@pcadmin.ctc.edu)
Jerry Lewis (jlweis@columbiabasin.edu) Scott Dennis(SDennis@sbctc.edu)
ANGEL Uptime Monitor Displaying Incorrectly
The Site 24/7, Angel Uptime feature is displaying “Metrics” instead of the percentage of up time for the week. We have contacted the Site 24/7 help desk and they are working on correcting this.
Notice of ANGEL Managed Hosting maintenance windows
Audience: All Users
What: Maintenance- no downtime
On Friday, April 16th at 4:00 am EST, Managed Hosting will coordinating with our datacenter to test the power circuits that will be undergoing some maintenance next week. This will be a zero downtime event for all customers.
On Tuesday , April 20th between 8 am and 8 pm EST, our datacenter will be shutting down the backup circuit to conduct the necessary repairs. This will be a zero downtime event for all customers.
Book Order Deadline Extended to Next Monday, April 12th.
Audience: Instructors of WAOL ****SHARED*** courses
Please use Internet Explorer when updating your texts as we’ve noticed Firefox seems to default to “no books required”.
- Please take a moment to confirm that your texts for Summer and Fall are updated and correct.
- Click on this link for steps to entering your Book Order
- If your course is not being offered this quarter then please disregard this request.
A reminder:
We’ve discovered:
- Students often use our eCampus bookstore to find their texts then order them elsewhere.
- Students often bypass their campus bookstores and order from services like Amazon.
- This often results in the wrong course materials for students who have courses that list bundled/custom texts.
If you are concerned about not being able to get your text information updated by the deadline please email or phone me directly.
Monique Kovalenko
509-434-5155 or 1-888-580-9011
Removing Summer & Fall 2009 WAOL Shared/Private Courses From ANGEL
Audience: All WAOL ANGEL Instructors
Now that Winter quarter is over I will be removing the Fall 2009 courses that used an Intent-to-teach form to get created. This means the WAOL Shared and Private courses only.
April 12th the fall classrooms will be removed from the Angel server.
I will also be removing Summer 2009 classrooms from Angel as well. I am behind in getting these done.
May 19th the Summer 2009 classroom will be removed from the Angel server
You need to use your LOR and/or a Master classroom to store your content in and to copy your content into the classrooms you teach.
If you need a master classroom or would like an additional master for summer please contact Monique Kovalenko with your WAOL ID number and ANGEL username.
Monique Kovalenko – mkovalenko@sbctc.edu
How you can/should manage and backup your own content throughout the quarter: Use documents below on how to use the “Backup” and “Export” feature within your Angel classroom.
Using Repositories and Master Courses in ANGEL
Backing Up Your Work in ANGEL 7.4
Here is the course lifespan cycle for WAOL shared and Private courses.
- Courses will remain on the Angel Server for one quarter past their end date. (Example: Fall quarter 2009 will be deleted at the end of Winter quarter 2010; Summer 2009 should have been deleted at the end of Fall 2009).
- At the end of the quarter all courses will be archived and moved to an offline storage.
- Faculty are responsible to backup their own course’s throughout the quarter.
Thank you,
Mark Carbon
IT Consultant/System Admin.
