Posts tagged ‘transition’
How to Upgrade from Elluminate v 8.5 to v 9.0
Steps to create a new meeting in v 9.0:
- Login to your account at: https://sas.elluminate.com/
- Click on “Schedule a Meeting” on the left-hand side of the page.
- Fill out the session name.
- Extend the dates of the session out one year, so this session is always available to you.
- Click on “Show Default Fields” on the left-hand side of the page.
- Under “Version,” choose 9.0 from the dropdown box.
- Remember to select your college under the “Cost Center” dropdown box.
- Click on “Save Current Settings as Default” on the right-hand side of the page.
- Click on “Create the Session” on the right-hand side of the page.
- This confirms and displays the Guest Link and sends an email to you.
- Send the Guest Link to invite others to join your session.
Steps to Upgrade an Existing Session:
- Login to your Elluminate account at: https://sas.elluminate.com/
- Click on the “Utilities” tab at the top of the page.
- Click on the “Meeting” icon under “Session Management.”
- Click on the grey box (left-hand side) next to your list of sessions.
- This will highlight each session one at a time.
- Click on “Edit” on the toolbar above.
- This opens the fields on the right hand side of the screen.
- Click on the dropdown box “Version” and select 9.0.
- Click on “Save” on the top right hand side of the page.
- Confirm the “Refresh Table” popup by selecting “Yes.”
Teleconference Connection Information:
- Click on the Moderator Link and go into your Session.
- Click on the small telephone icon that has a wrench through it—the last icon on the right at the bottom of the page. (If you mouse over it, it will say “Configure the telephone connection information.”)
- Fill in the conference telephone number and PIN.
- Insert two commas before the PIN. This inserts a pause to ensure the bridge is ready to accept your PIN.
- For additional information: http://www.elluminate.com/support/v9-release/index.jsp
Spring Classrooms
Mark Carbon will be creating spring classrooms in Angel and Blackboard starting Feb. 6th for all Intent-to-Teach (ITT) forms that have been approved by your college.
If you are teaching in Angel:
In addition to your ANGEL classroom, we are creating a Blackboard classroom for you. The Blackboard classroom has a message telling students to go login to Angel. This is in case you have a student that by-passes our website and goes directly to Blackboard.
Note: The student user ID in ANGEL does not include waol before the student ID. In ANGEL students just enter their student ID number.
If you are teaching in Blackboard for Spring:
In addition to your Blackboard classroom, you will be given an Angel classroom that all your students will be enrolled into. Log into your Angel classroom and post a message telling students you will be teaching in Blackboard this quarter.
Post the URL http://waol.blackboard.com and these login instructions:
RETURNING STUDENTS – To Login:
- UserID = waol + your student ID number
- Password = the same password you used last quarter
NEW STUDENTS – To Login:
- UserID = waol + your student ID number
- Password = first 5 letters of your last name (no spaces or punctuation) Password example: Johnson=johns, Lee=lee, O’Reilly=oreil
For Spring the waol.org site will be changed to feature ANGEL as WAOL’s course management system rather than Blackboard. We will still have the Blackboard login links for the few classrooms that will be in Blackboard for Spring.
Faculty still using Blackboard are required to update the Angel classroom to send their students to Blackboard.
Instructions on how to copy your course into ANGEL and how to post messages in ANGEL can be found here: http://www.waol.org/faculty_and_staff/ANGELSupport.aspx
Information for Spring 09 WAOL Instructors
- We’re transitioning to the ANGEL Learning Management System
- You’ll need to import your course content from Blackboard into ANGEL
- Resources for obtaining an ANGEL account & migrating content are available at our Faculty ANGEL Support page. Your ELC will also have the most current information on the move.
- Please read carefully about changes in the Intent to Teach process listed below.
The Spring 09 Intent to Teach form is now open. The new ITT form defaults to ANGEL since we plan to have most users on ANGEL for Spring 09. It also allows flexible dates for any private course. Shared courses, of course, must continue to use the WAOL start-stop dates. These changes reflect the new tech fee structure, the cutover to ANGEL and the general simplification of WAOL procedures that these changes enable. The first change is that the College Private and Hybrid course types will effectively be merged into the old Flexible course type. This new, merged course type will keep the College Private name, but will have the flexibility of the old WAOL Flexible course type. The new College Private course type will be:
- Private to your school (which is no change from the existing College Private, Hybrid and Flexible types),
- Enrollment always open on the WAOL side, (and so controlled only by the college in SMS),
- Flexible dates. The ITT form defaults to the dates set by your college, but the ELC may edit them prior to approving the form.
The second change is the emphasis on ANGEL over Blackboard. The ITT form for Spring 09 will:
- Default to ANGEL, but offer Blackboard as a less emphasized option. Please check with your ELC before choosing Blackboard. On many campuses all instructors will be moving to ANGEL.
- The Course ID to Copy is not collected for ANGEL courses. Instructors on ANGEL all receive empty course shells, and so copy their course content themselves from their masters or prior sections or Blackboard. (Originally, WAOL planned to migrate content from Blackboard for instructors. During the Fall pilot we got feedback from instructors that it is much easier if the instructor imports the content. Don’t worry—it’s easy.)
These are relatively small adjustments, and the overall process is unchanged. Instructors continue to fill out an online form by going to their MyWAOL account. E-Learning Coordinators receive email notice as the forms are submitted, and may then approve or reject the forms on WAOL.org. WAOL staff can see these forms as they move through the system, and this form information is the basis for the online classrooms that are provisioned in WAOL’s SMS and in ANGEL and Blackboard. So, as always, we need the approved ITT form before your classroom can be created.
