WAOL Blog

TODAY is Book Order Deadline for Spring 12 SHARED Courses

waol — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 18:42:03 +0000

Audience: ELC, WAOL lead instructors of shared courses

Reminder: Today is the deadline for updating WAOL SHARED course book orders for Spring; reminders have been mailed out. Courses not updated will not have texts listed in our bookstore or on our Book Order Report.

Only instructors teaching shared courses need to update their texts with WAOL.

You can check the Book Order Report here.

Instructions on entering book orders here.

WAOL Advisory Group Meeting; January 23rd Recording

waol — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 20:32:55 +0000

Audience: eLearning Coordinators

Meeting Overview:

2012 Meeting Schedule
State Authorization Issue
Blackboard Collaborate Check-in
Tegrity Check-in
ANGEL Check-in
LMS RFP
Open Course Library Update

Go directly to the recording with this link.

View the PowerPoint slides.

Spring 2012 Intent to Teach Forms Now Available

waol — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 21:27:36 +0000

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 Spring quarter.

Please note: Students cannot register for WAOL courses until the ITT forms have been submitted and approved.

Important dates: WAOL Spring enrollment opens on Thursday, February 2nd.

Instructions: How to fill out Intent to Teach Forms

Please be sure to check the start and stop dates here; these are the dates that need to be used if teaching a WAOL shared course.

WAOL W12 10th Day Moved to Monday, January 23rd

waol — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 21:18:04 +0000

Users: Registrars

Note: Due to weather conditions and several colleges being closed, we have moved the WAOL 10th day count to Monday, January 23rd. Hopefully this date will work for everyone, and will be enough time to process any drops that may have not been done yet.

WAOL Advisory Group Meeting; January 9th Recording

waol — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 01:07:11 +0000

Audience: eLearning Coordinators

Meeting Overview:

2012 Meeting Schedule
State Authorization Issue
Blackboard Collaborate Check-in
Tegrity Check-in
ANGEL Check-in
LMS RFP
Open Course Library Update
Universal SID
Drop in eLearning enrollments

Go directly to the recording with this link.

View the PowerPoint slides.

MyWAOL Admin Accounts Available

waol — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 20:59:51 +0000

Who: WAOL Admins

What: The WAOL Admin logins are working again, to access the login page please click on the Faculty & Staff section of the homepage.

WAOL Advisory Group Meeting; December 12th Recording

waol — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 21:10:22 +0000

Audience: eLearning Coordinators

Meeting Overview:

2012 Meeting Schedule
State Authorization Issue
Blackboard Collaborate Check-in
Tegrity Check-in
ANGEL Check-in
LMS RFP
Open Course Library Update
waol.org/help demonstration
WAOL Ads Update

Go directly to the recording with this link.

View the PowerPoint slides.

MyWAOL Admin Accounts Unavailable

waol — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 23:59:30 +0000

Who: WAOL Admins

What: We are currently working on trouble with MyWAOL Admin account logins and will continue to monitor this until it is corrected.

Blackboard Support Services Maintenance- Dec. 17th

waol — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 23:47:57 +0000

System Maintenance – Dec 17th, 1 AM

Parature will be upgrading storage infrastructure on Saturday, December 17th from 1 AM to 7 AM EST. During this 6 hour window, inbound email will be held, but will not convert into new tickets or ticket replies. These held emails sent during the window will be processed at the end of the window. The Parature sandbox environment will also be unavailable during this time.

WAOL Fall 11 Shared Course Instruction Ends Today

waol — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 23:39:37 +0000

WAOL fall grades for ALL shared courses are due next Monday, December 5th, and need to be submitted no later than midnight or they do not get recorded and sent off to the students’ enrolling colleges.

Student access to their ANGEL fall classrooms will be turned off on Wednesday, December 7th. If there are any grade changes that need to be made after December 5th they will need to be emailed directly to our office. We will then make the change in the WAOL Fall 11 database and send them off to the appropriate college.

Click here for instructions on Web Grading and here for assigning an Incomplete Grade in a WAOL course.

Any grade changes made after December 5th, 2011 must be sent to: Monique Kovalenko (mkovalenko@sbctc.edu) and Brook Bane (bbane@sbctc.edu)