Archive for June, 2010
WAOL Shared SU10 Enrollment Closes Today 6-24
Elluminate Updating Rooms to V.10
Audience: All Elluminate users
Time: Sunday morning, June 27, 2010 @12:30 am
- Elluminate upgraded our license to v. 10 last Saturday (6/19).
- After the upgrade, each existing session could stay on v. 9.7 or be upgraded. The task of upgrading each existing session could be done by the user or by the college administrator. However, with approval from the WAOL Advisory Group, we asked Elluminate to upgrade all existing sessions in a bulk process for us, and they will do that next Sunday morning.
Note that a version 10 session might take an extra few minutes to download the first time you log in to version 10.
Follow this link for more information about what’s new with the update.
WAOL System-Owned Course Cancelations
Audience: Colleges offering WAOL System-Owned Shared Courses
What: Course Cancelations
These two courses below do have some enrollments so please be sure to check if you have enrollments in these classes, and if so contact those students ASAP to inform them the courses have been canceled as instruction begins this Thursday.
3501 – WAOL WAOL Intro to Logic
5304 – WAOL Child Development: Birth to Eight
Canceled WAOL System-Owned Shared Summer Courses:
#3501 – WAOL Lifespan of Developmental Psychology
#5304 – WAOL Child Development: Birth to Eight
#6002 – WAOL Small Business Planning
#6202 – WAOL Intro to Programming using VisualBasic.NET
Canceled/Full WAOL Courses
Audience: ELC, Faculty & Registrars
Note: All shared summer 2010 classrooms open tomorrow, June 17th, and instruction begins next Thursday, June 24th.
Here is a list of courses that have been canceled due to no/low enrollments for summer quarter. Please check this list, if you have students enrolled in any of these courses you will need to notify them ASAP and drop them.
Canceled WAOL System-Owned Shared Summer Courses:
#6002 – WAOL Small Business Planning
#6202 – WAOL Intro to Programming using VisualBasic.NET
Canceled College-owned Shared Summer Courses:
#7715 – Government of United States (GHC)
Full Summer WAOL 2010 Courses:
#2200 – WAOL Intro to Art
#4101 – WAOL Pacific NW Geology
#4300 – WAOL Introduction to Biology
#5301 – WAOL Issues & Trends
#6013 – WAOL Managerial Accounting
#7001 – Medical Terminology I
Also, if you have hired an instructor to teach a WAOL system-owned shared course please be sure to check their assigned sections and if you want to cancel any instructors sections due to no/low enrollments for summer quarter we need to know ASAP so we can be sure all enrolled students get placed into a section.
You can go here to view the summer instructor class report: http://www.waol.org/info/currentQuarter/allCoursesReport_n.asp
MyWAOL Faculty Accounts ONLY accessible through ANGEL
Audience: All faculty who teach using WAOL Course IDs
When: Beginning June 17th
What: Faculty now have access to the WAOL nugget only through WAOL ANGEL. This change has two advantages:
- Faculty have one less logon place, userID and password to remember
- Since faculty will be starting in their college-based domain, their Intent to Teach forms will automatically be set up for that college, preventing a common error of choosing the wrong college
Some instructors who do not regularly use WAOL ANGEL have been using a MyWAOL account to access the media server. They now need an account in MyWAOL ANGEL. Click for the self-registration form, which is the quickest and best way for them to get into WAOL ANGEL.
How: Once they are logged in, they must add the MyWAOL nugget by editing their ANGEL desktop. Instructions on how to do this can be found in this post.
Please note: MyWAOL faculty accounts will no longer work from waol.org—only from WAOL ANGEL nugget.
However, college administrators must still log in to MyWAOL from waol.org until the admin nugget is completed.
WAOL Advisory Group Meeting; June 15th Recording
Audience: eLearning Coordinators
Meeting Take Aways:
- We will ask Elluminate to bulk upgrade existing rooms after our upgrade to Elluminate v10 on Saturday
- Call Presidium to get end user support; for admin support, call Elluminate
- LMC Summit on Monday, August 9 at State Board office in Olympia. Please register now. Anyone welcome
- New MyWAOL nugget so faculty do not have to log into MyWAOL AND ANGEL
- Streaming media server under development
- ANGEL Support moving to Behind the Blackboard. If you don’t have logon credentials, please write to Connie cbroughton@sbctc.edu
Click here for access to a list of all Advisory Group meeting recordings and slideshows.
Elluminate move to Version 10 -Saturday, June 19th
Audience: All Elluminate Users
- Elluminate is upgrading to version 10. Our system installation will be upgraded during our regular maintenance time starting at 7:00 PM, Saturday, June 19.
- This upgrade does not affect your previous recordings, user accounts, or session links. Recordings will continue to play in the version they were created in.
- Depending on your connection speed, it may take 1 to 5 additional minutes to download version 10 the first time you use it.
- For support, please go to the WAOL Help Desk. http://waol.org/general_info/help_desk.aspx
- For more information, http://support.elluminate.com/ics/support/default.asp?deptID=2653&task=knowledge&questionID=1243
Open Course Library: Final Product and Master Course Shells
Audience: Open Course Library Developers and Development Teams
Here is some information on the final product and Master Course shells in WAOL ANGEL for the Open Course Library.
Open Course Library Final Product:
Since the content of the courses developed for the Open Course Library must be portable and easy to share, course developers will be required to do the following:
- Develop the content in an open technical format, specifically, the IMS Common Course Cartridge format.
- Place all content necessary to teach the course in a Master shell on WAOL ANGEL.
- WAOL has created a Master shell for each course in WAOL ANGEL. Since the Masters exist in the WAOL domain, users from any college domain can be connected to them. The courses use a common naming scheme: WAOL-OCL-Master-Course Name-CourseNumber.
- Developers and support staff can get access to their Master(s) by contacting the WAOL office staff: Mark Carbon mcarbon@sbctc.edu; Brook Bane bbane@sbctc.edu ; Monique Kovalenko mkovalenko@sbctc.edu
- Developers and support staff who do not already have an account on WAOL ANGEL can create one by using the self-registration tool. New users will need their Employee ID number and the passcode, which they can get from their elearning office. They should choose their own college domain for their account. Here’s the link to the WAOL ANGEL self-registration form. https://www.waol.org/admin/RequestAngelAccount.aspx
- If the course will be delivered using tools outside a learning management system, the content must include enough information so another instructor can set up and teach the course. For instance, if the course relies on an open source wiki, the WAOL ANGEL Master must include information on how to set up and use the wiki.
- Since all content must be portable, developers should not use the ANGEL Learning Object Repository as a development space for these courses.
After the course content and instructions have been added to the course master shells by the faculty developers and development teams, State Board staff will make the archives available within ANGEL and downloadable from the State Board website, and they will also transfer them to other open content repositories.
Please let us know if you have any questions or any problems in using the Master Course shells.
Shared Courses: Spring Quarter ends tomorrow, grades due Monday
Audience: Instructors Who Are Teaching SHARED Courses Only
- Tomorrow, Wednesday June 9th, is the last day of instruction for ALL Spring 10 shared courses.
- Spring WAOL grades for ALL shared courses are due next Monday, June 14th by midnight in order to ensure students grades are forwarded to their college.
- Student access to their ANGEL account and Spring classrooms will be turned off on Wednesday, June 16th.
Any grade changes made after June 14th must be sent to: Monique Kovalenko (mkovalenko@sbctc.edu) or Brook Bane (bbane@sbctc.edu) who will then update and forward these along to the appropriate college.
Click on this link for directions to submitting your grades: http://waol.org/faculty_and_staff/webgrading.aspx
If you choose to give a student an Incomplete grade please read our policies before you do so: http://waol.org/faculty_and_staff/incompleteGrade.aspx
Summer ITT Deadline is TODAY– WAOL Shared Courses ONLY
Audience: eLearning coordinators and faculty teaching WAOL ***shared*** courses
Notice: The deadline for approved Intent to Teach forms for faculty who plan on teaching any WAOL system-owned shared course summer quarter is today.
A few points:
We are assigning the WAOL shared course sections based on seniority and approved ITT forms tomorrow, June 4th.
If we do not get the ITT’s for WAOL system-owned shared courses submitted and approved by the deadline then those instructors will go to the bottom of the list of instructors teaching spring quarter.
Instructions on how to submit Intent to Teach forms here: http://waol.org/faculty_and_staff/ittFacultyForm.aspx
