Archive for June 8, 2010
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
