WAOL Council Meeting

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WAOL Council Meeting

• Monday, February 2, 2009

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Agenda

• ANGEL Winter PilotWhat works/What Doesnt?
• WAOL Technical Support and Presidium feedback
• Training Update
• Employee Waivers for Shared Courses
• Spring 09
• Admin Kick-Off
• Elluminate Report
• Next meeting

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New WAOL Cost Model Approved

• New model 4 per active user per quarter
  (unlimited use per user)
• Starting Winter 09both Blackboard and ANGEL
  users
• Active users determined on audit dates late in
  quarter colleges can create unlimited classrooms
  and accounts but be charged only for those that
  are active
• Details on Http//waol.org soon

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WAOL ANGEL Pilot Winter 09

• What works?
• What doesnt?

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WAOL Technical Support

• http//www.waol.org/general_info/help_desk.aspx
• Presidium 24 x 7 for all users. If Presidium
  staff cannot solve your problem they send an
  escalation ticket to Mark.  Then Mark works on
  the problem.  If he can't solve it, he reaches
  out to other WAOL staff or to ANGEL itself.
• Calling Presidium also provides documentation
  that is sometimes necessary to solve technical
  problems.

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WAOL Technical Support

• During business hours call our office
  (888-580-9011) or email one of us, and we'll try
  to help or pass the question along to the right
  person.
• Or write wa-online_at_ctc.edu
• For direct faculty support
• Boyoung Chae bchae_at_sbctc.edu
• Jesse Sims jsims_at_lowercolumbia.edu
• Presidium Feedback

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Training Update

• Materials and training opportunities
  http//www.waol.org/faculty_and_staff/angelSupport
  .aspx
• Please send us any feedback on these materials
• wa-online_at_ctc.edu
• If you have other materials or opportunities to
  share, please let us know and well post.
• Additional materials
• Training/orientation sessions in Elluminate
• Regional face-to-face training

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Waivers for Shared Courses

• Problem How does a college allow a tuition
  waiver for a shared online course? The college
  needs to pay the teaching college, and when is
  the section full?
• Anybody have a good practice?
• Collect full cost?
• Enroll as audit?
• Can WAOL do something to make this easier?

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New WAOL Faculty Training in ANGEL

• How to use ANGEL
• Now three weeks in length
• http//www.waol.org/info/training/instTrainingRegi
  stration.aspx
• Open to anyone in our system
• Please provide any feedback to Boyoung Chae
• bchae_at_sbctc.edu

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Expert Support for Faculty

• Jesse Sims half-time through Lower Columbia
  College
• Jesse will work individually with instructors and
  provide advanced ANGEL expertise.
• jsims_at_lowercolumbia.edu

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Spring 09
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Spring 09

• Students served by WAOL existing processes
• All private courses are flexible all shared
  courses use WAOL dates.
• WAOL never turns off enrollment
• New cost model
• Pilot Enrollment Wizard and other integration
  possibilities
• Flip the processin Winter most students on
  Blackboard in Spring most students will be on
  ANGEL

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Spring Intent to Teach Forms

• Available now in instructors MyWAOL accounts
• Default to college-determined dates
• ELC can change dates before approving the ITT
  form
• Defaults to ANGEL use for SpringIf you dont
  want your faculty to choose Blackboard, let them
  know.
• Check forms before you approve for CMS and dates.

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Domains and Admin Access

• Colleges invited to configure domain on WAOL
  ANGEL --necessary before admin training
  http//www.waol.org/faculty_and_staff/angelDomain.
  aspx

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WAOL ANGEL Admin Kick-Off

• Two identical sessions in
• Thursday, February 5 from noon to 300 PST
• Friday, February 6 from 900 to noon PST
• WAOL and ANGEL staff will provide overview and
  group training, followed by
• Online self-paced training
• Individual college consultation with ANGEL
• These must be scheduled through WAOL
• Youll need to have your college domain first

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WAOL Blackboard to ANGEL

• Phase One July 08 through March 09
• Everything currently supported by WAOL moved from
  Blackboard to ANGEL
• Training focus on experienced Blackboard users
  who are moving to ANGEL
• Continue to use existing WAOL processes (WAOL ID
  numbers, Intent to Teach forms, etc.) through
  Spring 09 for everyone
• College admin access for non-student/classroom
  use

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WAOL Blackboard to ANGEL

• Phase Two March 09 through June 09
• Services new from WAOL
• Implement individual college domains and admin
  accessunderway
• Additional processes so colleges can manage their
  own enrollmentsTest in Spring 09 available
  Summer 09
• Training in ANGEL
• Training for ePortfolio (which is available in
  every classroom nowjust no training)

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Elluminate

• V 9 available http//www.elluminate.com/support/d
  ocs/9.0/participant.jsp
• ELC wiki has a place for college for policies
• http//wadlc.wikispaces.com/WAOLCouncilElluminat
  eLinks

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Elluminate Headsets

• Headsets from Elluminate
• 5.50 per in case of 80 (440 per case)
• Must buy whole case
• Shipping extra
• headsets_at_elluminate.com

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Next meeting

• February 23, 2009, 1100 to noon on Elluminate
• (February 16 is Presidents Day)
• WAOL Council recordings and information on this
  web site
• http//waol.org/faculty_and_staff/waolCouncil.aspx
  
• Please forward invitations to others on your
  campus who might be interested.