An all-faculty email just went out about the ANGEL downtime next week. Thanks to Jason for spreading the word and for scheduling the upgrade for after grades are due:
ANGEL will be unavailable on Wednesday May 25, from 8:00AM – 12:00PM to install Service Packs 10 & 11 for Version 7.4. Thank you for your cooperation.
Thanks,
Jason
Just a quick update from Jason Wimmer about an upcoming ANGEL downtime:
ANGEL will be unavailable on Thursday, March 24, from 8:00AM – 12:00PM to install Service Pack 9 for Version 7.4. Thank you for your cooperation.
Thanks to Jason and IR for scheduling the outage during break!
Hopefully you all got this note from Jason Wimmer:
Dear Faculty,
ANGEL will be unavailable on December 21, from 8:30AM – 11:00AM to install Service Pack 8 for Version 7.4. Thank you for you cooperation
Thanks to Jason and IR for scheduling this upgrade at a time of low usage! And happy holidays to all from TAG.
Jason Wimmer just sent out this notice:
ANGEL will be unavailable on Saturday October 2, from 7:00AM – 10:00AM to install Service Pack 7 for Version 7.4. Thank you for you cooperation.
And don’t forget about the other outages (including Banner, Self-Service, etc) scheduled for Saturday as well.
CTLE announced this year’s Development Stipends for Online Courses today. If you didn’t see the email or the paper notices, here’s the text of the announcement. Don’t forget that applications are due November 1.
Note: the stipends are only available for full-time faculty.
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TO: Full-Time Faculty FROM: Charles E. Kratz, Dean of the Library & Information Fluency SUBJECT: 2010-2011 Development Stipends for Online Courses DATE: September 27, 2010
The Center for Teaching & Learning Excellence (CTLE) is pleased to announce that stipends of $5,000 are available for full-time faculty interested in obtaining funding to assist with the initial development of a 3-credit online course created on the ANGEL Course Management System or stipends of $3,000 are available for full-time faculty interested in obtaining funding to assist with the revision of a 3-credit online course currently offered on the Angel Course Management System. For courses being revised, courses must have been taught three or more years online to be eligible for the stipend. Stipends for one or two credit courses will be prorated. Priority will be given to proposals that incorporate multimedia resources. Faculty must have the course online by summer 2011 or fall 2011. Faculty will receive payment after the course is online and the course syllabus has been submitted to Charles Kratz, Dean of the Library & Information Fluency.
Proposals should not exceed 2 pages and must include the following information:
- Intended audience for the online course;
- Statement about why the course should be online and the benefits for it being online (100 words or less);
- Course description;
- Student learning outcomes and assessment;
- Pedagogical approach for the use of technology in the course;
- Plan for use of multimedia materials (e.g., audio, video, streaming materials);
- Sample syllabus for online course that will incorporate ANGEL features (e.g., chat, discussion board);
- Commitment to develop the course in collaboration with the CTLE Instructional Curriculum Designer and the Library Faculty Liaison to your Academic Department;
- A specific timeline for the course development, including start and completion date;
- Specific resources needed for the course development;
- Letter of Support from Department Chair or Dean.
Applicants are encouraged to consult Eugeniu Grigorescu, the Associate Director of the CTLE and Instructional Curriculum Designer, prior to submitting their applications. Proposals will be reviewed by a faculty subcommittee of the CTLE Advisory Group. All applicants will be notified in December 2010. Faculty will have the spring and summer semesters to develop the online course(s). Faculty will be asked to share their experiences and their course(s) with their colleagues at a CTLE workshop. Please note that stipends are subject to taxes.
Please submit applications via campus mail to:
Charles E. Kratz, Dean of the Library & Information Fluency
Weinberg Library
Ext. 4008
kratzc1@scranton.eduApplication Deadline:
Monday, November 1, 2010
The Library is working on setting up a campus Video Streaming Committee “to develop guidelines for the provision of services related to streaming video.” Issues that would be discussed would include policies for streaming video use and distribution on campus, the impact on the Library and University budget, and ensuring compliance with copyright law.
Right now, the Library provides media services primarily by purchasing physical media (CD, DVD, and even the occasional VHS tape) requested by faculty members and then allowing them to check out the item to show in class. We’ve just started to dip our toes into the world of providing access to high quality educational streaming video – so faculty could either show video in class or post it to Angel for asynchronous viewing.
The Committee will be organized by the Library’s associate director Bonnie Strohl, who has so far invited representatives from IR, the communications department, the general counsel’s office, and the Library (of course) to participate. I’ve volunteered to serve on the committee and can keep TAG up-to-date on any relevant discussions – but if anyone else is interested, Bonnie is still looking for willing volunteers. You can email her at strohlb1@scranton.edu if you’d like to serve.
There will be a brief outage on Sunday due to some work being done in the new Data Center — notice from IR (emphasis ours):
Due to relocation of servers to the new Data Center, the following services will be unavailable for short periods during the hours of 7:30 – noon on Sunday, Sept 5.
WebEvent, Library Systems, Content Management System (CMS), RoyalPo (outgoing email)
So make sure you’re not planning to send any emails or access Angel on Sunday morning. We’ll let you know if we hear any changes to the outage schedule.
Jason Wimmer notifies us about some Angel Downtime this weekend
Due to the ongoing construction project of the AMH computer room, ANGEL will be unavailable to all users between the hours of 7:00AM – 12:00PM on Saturday, August 14.
IT Development and Applications reports that the upgrade to Angel v. 7.4 has been completed:
The upgrade to ANGEL 7.4 has been completed. There are some issues with the gradebook in the new version that we will be ironing out tomorrow with the assistance of ANGEL support. If you do not have to use the gradebook in your courses, please do not until later in the week.
We hope to have this issue resolved very soon.
If you have questions or problems, contact Jason Wimmer in ITDA.
There’s been some buzz on Twitter this week about Google’s May 19 announcement of CloudCourse, an “enterprise application in the cloud” that looks like Google’s first step into the learning management system market.
CloudCourse an open source piece of software that offers calendaring (integrated with Google Calendar), waitlist management and approval features – so at this point it seems like the primary focus is on course scheduling. It’s unclear whether CloudCourse will or could evolve into a competitor for Blackboard.
