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Please read this carefully.
Sometime this week everyone with college domain admin access on WAOL ANGEL will be receiving an email that tells them they now have an account on the WAOL ANGEL development server.  Please make sure the WAOL ANGEL admin on your campus has this information.
Here’s the story:
WAOL has purchased one seat of online ANGEL administrator training for each college.  Our intention was that college domain administrators take the training from within their own college domains on WAOL ANGEL.  We have two goals in using the production server for this training:

1. College domain administrators would be taking the training in the same environment in which they will be using WAOL ANGEL with the same level of permissions and access allowed in a single college domain.
2. College domain administrators would provide testing for the domain set up as they take the training.  (This has worked well in finding flaws or issues in the set up.)

Some college domain administrators have complained that they need a development server on which to do the training exercises because they have real students active in their WAOL ANGEL domains (ahead of our schedule).
So we are providing access to all college domain administrators to the WAOL ANGEL developmental server as a place to do the exercises in the online admin training.

However—and read this carefully—
The development server is not the same environment college domain administrators will be working in on WAOL ANGEL production server. The WAOL ANGEL development server is NOT set up in domains, and we not intend to set it up with all 35 domains.  In addition, college domain administrators will have full system administrator access in WAOL ANGEL development server.
What does that mean?  On the dev server, college administrators will be able to do things they will not be able to do on production—and most likely they are things college domain administrators will NEVER do on WAOL ANGEL production.
Please remember that anything your college WAOL ANGEL admin does on the development server

1. Is not a good test of what a college will do or how a college can do it within the college domain in a real situation.
2. Is on a development server and could be lost or changed at any time.  Please don’t put anything on the development server that you want to keep. Anyone who has access will be able to change or delete anything done on this server.
3. Is focused on completing the ANGEL Admin Training for your college domain administrator.
4. Is used to test new features (batch enrollment, SQL Query Manager, etc.)

If your domain administrator wonders why he/she cannot do something on production that could be done on development, please forward him or her to this post. 
If it is something you think the domain administrator should have access to, please ask me to add it to the ANGEL Admin Work Group agenda, and we’ll discuss it as a group.