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

What’s New: If you have an account in WAOL ANGEL, you can now only log in through the college where you are enrolled or where you work.  This change will allow each college to manage and communicate with its own faculty and students using ANGEL.   

What does this mean?  If you are logging in from your college web site, you are probably already using your college’s URL.  If you have been logging in from the WAOL web site, you now need to choose your college from the drop-down menu first.  Then you can log into your college domain as usual.

If you are taking classes or teaching classes for more than one college, you will need to log in to each college separately.

Thursday, March 18, 3 – 4:30 pm, in Elluminate
Meeting agenda

Drop by this faculty learning community.  We are studying instructional design in online and hybrid classes, using Quality Matters. 

Join us from your computer in this Elluminate room (just type in your name as you do not need a password):https://sas.elluminate.com/site/external/launch/meeting.jnlp?password=M.CB2CB2664979AE8F3065444E874D4E .

Ann Garnsey-Harter, Ph.D.
Director of eLearning
Shoreline Community College
agarnsey@shoreline.edu
206-546-5879

Notice: The deadline for approved Intent to Teach forms for faculty who plan on teaching any WAOL system-owned shared course spring quarter is next Wednesday, March 10th. 

A few points:

• We will start assigning the WAOL shared course sections based on seniority and approved ITT forms on Thursday, March 11th.
• 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

Two weeks ago WAOL added Site24×7 monitoring to WAOL ANGEL.  The uptime indicator is on waol.org and on the WAOL domain in WAOL ANGEL. 

If you want to add the uptime indicator to your web site or domain, the instructions and code are posted on the WAOL Administrator Resources page—it’s the last item under Setting Up Your ANGEL Domain.

http://www.waol.org/faculty_and_staff/AngelAdminInfo.aspx 

Thanks to Paul Kreemer for setting up Site 24×7 and Duane Bennewitz for the instructions.

UPDATE:   ANGEL users using Internet Explorer may have experienced problems with the secure logon nugget, starting from 6pm Thursday night.  A fix was applied at 8am Friday morning. 

What: We’re phasing in a secure logon technology for ANGEL.  It’s currently appearing on the ANGEL logon page as an additional control.  Our plan is to evaluate it for a few days, and after a successful trial, remove the standard logon control.  During this evaluation period both logon controls will appear on the ANGEL logon page.

This information is available from the More Info link on the control:

• Secure logon protects your ANGEL username and password from interception while logging in,
  even if you are using an unsecured Wi-Fi network, such as is commonly available at coffee shops. To accomplish this, your account is first transmitted via a secure (SSL) connection and a one-time login token value is returned.  Finally, this token is sent directly to ANGEL and you are logged in.  All of this occurs without sending your account in clear text over the Internet.
  Note that the ANGEL logon page itself is not SSL-secured; only the logon transaction uses SSL and so you will not see the secure site indicator in your browser, nor will this secure logon change any other feature in ANGEL.

What’s New/Task Hot Fix is now available in all domains in WAOL ANGEL.

Here’s the documentation that you can send to your faculty and students who use WAOL ANGEL (Changes to What New-Tasks)

WAOL staff rolled out the Hot Fix domain-by-domain over the last two weeks to make sure we did not see a degradation in performance as the function was restored.  So far we have not seen any related technical problems. 

If you do see any problems, however, please have your college domain administrator add information to this ANGEL support ticket:  #596-8313119

Background: When WAOL ANGEL experienced performance problems in January, ANGEL suggested we turn off the What’s New/Tasks feature since this feature was programmed to search every classroom or group for changes every time a user logs in.  We turned it off, and performance improved.  The cost, however, was high in that faculty and students lost very useful tools.  We asked ANGEL to provide What’s New/Tasks in a form that would work for our installation, and they did so by changing the What’s New/Tasks tool so it works on demand rather than running continuously.

We are sorry that this function was not available to faculty and students for several weeks this quarter, and we are glad that we now have all functions back.

Thanks for your patience and assistance as we worked toward this solution.

Where2Go4ANGELSupport

UPDATE:   ANGEL users using Internet Explorer may have experienced problems with the secure logon nugget, starting from 6pm Thursday night.  A fix was applied at 8am Friday morning.  

What: We’re phasing in a secure logon technology for ANGEL.  It’s currently appearing on the ANGEL logon page as an additional control.  Our plan is to evaluate it for a few days, and after a successful trial, remove the standard logon control.  During this evaluation period both logon controls will appear on the ANGEL logon page. 

This information is available from the More Info link on the control:

• Secure logon protects your ANGEL username and password from interception while logging in,
  even if you are using an unsecured Wi-Fi network, such as is commonly available at coffee shops. To accomplish this, your account is first transmitted via a secure (SSL) connection and a one-time login token value is returned.  Finally, this token is sent directly to ANGEL and you are logged in.  All of this occurs without sending your account in clear text over the Internet.
  Note that the ANGEL logon page itself is not SSL-secured; only the logon transaction uses SSL and so you will not see the secure site indicator in your browser.

What:  WAOL ANGEL was slow and non-responsive intermittently Monday morning.  ANGEL hosting reports the problem was caused at their site, and we believe it has now been fixed.  Please let Presidium (866-425-8412) know if you continue to see slow performance.