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ANGEL/Elluminate Updates
The first meeting of the WAOL Council on September 8 gave us some good feedback and information. Here’s the link to the ELC wiki:
http://wadlc.wikispaces.com/WAOL+Council+Home
And the link to the archived session of the September 8th meeting:
View the Elluminate Live! recording
Elluminate:
· We have enabled accounts for six colleges so far. In the process, we discovered a few things that need clarification:
o The user ID must be in all caps.
o The option for technical support for administrators when they call Elluminate has changed from “4” to “2.”
o Use of WAOL Elluminate is FREE, unlimited and available to anyone in our system. You do not have to use WAOL to deliver courses to use WAOL Elluminate.
o Elluminate can be integrated with Blackboard. We will not integrate with WAOL Blackboard since WAOL is moving off Blackboard this year. If a college wants to integrate the WAOL Elluminate with the college Blackboard, they can do so. Here’s the link to information on that Building Block: http://www.elluminate.com/blackboard_building_block.jsp
o Training is free and through Elluminate. We require training of the college Elluminate administrator, and we suggest colleges require training of anyone who gets an account through a college. When you sign up for the training for Elluminate, they ask you to create an account. That account is with Elluminate for their training registration, and WAOL has no access to it nor will lit give a person access to WAOL Elluminate.
ANGEL:
· ANGEL sandboxes—To this point we have asked people to get sandboxes from ANGEL rather than from WAOL so that they can receive support from ANGEL. We will be creating accounts in WAOL ANGEL in the next few weeks. We will create an account for everyone who already has an account on WAOL Blackboard, and we will also have a procedure to create accounts for people who are new to WAOL.
· 13 classrooms will be delivered Fall 08 on the WAOL ANGEL production server.
· Those classrooms can continue on ANGEL Winter 09. We will also be able to support additional classrooms during Winter 09.
· WAOL System-Owned Shared courses will be moved to ANGEL for Winter 09. Undetermined other college courses will be tested as well; however, our first goal for Winter is to test the WAOL integration processes.
· Blackboard to ANGEL training materials are under development and will be available in October. Boyoung Chae is doing this work now that Jane McCarville is working at NIC.
· The Blackboard to ANGEL migration plan has two phases, and WAOL staff are focused right now on Phase One.
o Phase One: Successfully replicate what WAOL does right now on Blackboard
o Phase Two: Create processes and access so colleges can manage ANGEL in their own domains.
Next Meeting:
· The WAOL Council will meet every other week in Elluminate. The next meeting is at 11:00 on Monday, September 22.
· Anyone is welcome; however, meeting information will go to the ELC listserv. Please forward to others on your campus.
Discussion and documents are at the ELC wiki http://wadlc.wikispaces.com/WAOL+Council+Home
Other information on Elluminate and ANGEL are on waol.org: http://www.waol.org/faculty_and_staff/angel_migration.aspx
ANGEL Instructor Train the Trainer, September 11 OR 12
WAOL has purchased a total of 40 seats in Basic ANGEL Instructor Training. Identical sessions are scheduled for September 11 and 12. The sessions will be led by ANGEL trainers face-to-face in a computer lab. View the agenda.
Ø September 11 – Spokane Community College, Building 1, Room 1121
Ø September 12—Tacoma Community College, Building 28, Room 110
· Each college can send one person to one of the scheduled sessions. The idea is to send someone who will be providing support to your faculty who use ANGEL.
· The training is free.
· State Board eLearning team will provide lunch.
· Both sessions run from 9:00 to 4:30, and they will be identical.
· Send the name of the person who will attend from your college and the location/date you want to attend to Monique. First come, first served. If you will not be sending someone from your college, let us know so we can give that seat to someone else.
o Monique Kovalenko mkovalenko@sbctc.edu 888-580-9011
WAOL has also purchased 40 seats for Advanced Training, and those sessions will be offered later this fall.
ANGEL pilots for Fall 08
Here at WAOL we have been working on a plan to provide some limited classroom pilots of WAOL ANGEL during Fall 08. We think these pilots will be valuable to all users as we move forward with ANGEL; however, we don’t want to jeopardize any student work nor do we want to distract WAOL staff from the larger jobs of the existing Blackboard operation and the migration to and automation of ANGEL.
So here’s the deal for colleges:
· WAOL will support up to two classrooms per college on WAOL ANGEL during Fall 08. (Volunteers only!)
· All pilots will be managed through existing WAOL processes (WAOL ID number and Intent to Teach form, etc.) This will allow us to keep track of the pilots and enrollments through a WAOL ID number and will have the added benefit of creating shadow Blackboard classrooms and accounts as back up.
· The college elearning director must identify pilot instructors and classrooms through an email to Monique Kovalenko mkovalenko@sbctc.edu by September 5th.
WAOL will need to get the instructor names and classrooms from college elearning directors, not from individual instructors.
Here are the requirements for pilot instructors:
· Instructors should plan for the possibility of technical issues; hybrid courses might be the best choice.
· Instructors should not expect full training in ANGEL from WAOL and should plan to do some self-study on ANGEL (an ANGEL sandbox or other experience).
· Student-level information on ANGEL will not be posted on waol.org or on college sites, so the pilot instructors will be responsible to give their students any information needed to access and use ANGEL. Presidium and the WAOL Instruction Office will be available for technical support; it will help if users identify themselves as WAOL ANGEL users.
· Instructors must post a message in the shadow Blackboard classroom that tells students how to log into their ANGEL classroom.
· Pilot instructors will have access to whatever ANGEL training and documentation WAOL has available, but they must know that it will not be finished before the quarter begins. We are hoping instructors will give us valuable feedback on ANGEL during the quarter.
And before you send me a message asking how the pilots will work during Winter quarter—still under discussion. However, I will tell you that we are steadily moving forward with no serious issues so far. Yippee.
Let me know if you have any questions.
Thanks,
Connie
Angel Account Set-up Complete
Today, we officially have the configuration and setup of our new AHS-hosted Angel application complete.
