MSU Virtual University Design and Technology (vuDAT) invites you to attend the next session in our ongoing Breakfast Series: Conversations on Online Pedagogy and Best Practices.
DATE: Wednesday, October 14, 2009
PLACE: MSU Main Library, North Conference Room, 4th floor, west wing
TIME: 8:45am – 10:00am (8:30am for refreshments)
TOPIC: Using Technology to Facilitate Communication, Connections and Content in [...]
“Including Quality in Your Online Courses: The ‘Quality Matters’ Program.”
TIME: Friday, September 25, from 12:00 noon to 1:00 p.m.
PLACE: 105 Natural Science Building.
The Quality Matters program was created a few years ago at the University of Maryland with support from the U.S. Department of Education, and it got tremendous play at conferences on online [...]
The ANGEL administrators replaced the old database server with a new one, which has twice the capacity for load and use. This should improve ANGEL’s performance and reliability. The administrators continue to monitor the system. If you encounter issues, please notify Distance Learning Services at 5-2345 or 1-800-500-1554, so the problem can be diagnosed ASAP.
The following memo was sent to the Deans, Directors and Chairs this afternoon by ATS director Tom Davis, in response to the issues seen on the ANGEL system September 8 and 9, 2009:
The ANGEL service is currently experiencing severe performance issues, to
the point of being unusable during peak periods. These issues appear to be
directly related [...]
The following was posted to http://servicestatus.msu.edu this morning:
Additional database tuning was performed at both the application and database layer, in an attempt to stabilize the system. ANGEL has remained stable throughout the night, and we are continuing to closely monitor the system. The ANGEL vendor is still engaged and working closely with the Service Sponsors.
Some [...]
The following information on today’s ANGEL outage was just posted on MSU Service Status(http://servstatus.msu.edu) by the ANGEL service sponsors”
The ATS Service Sponsors along with the ANGEL vendor have made several modifications to ANGEL’s database in order to improve performance and stability. The system is functional, but heavily loaded. Content exchange has been turned off during [...]
Michael Feldstein published an article on his ‘e-literate’ blog today that lightly summarizes a webinar he attended hosted by the Delta Initiative, a consultancy group, in cooperation with the Cal State system. The post I’m referring to “The State of the LMS: An Institutional Perspective” provides a brief synopsis of the webinar as “an excellent, [...]
vuDAT is excited to announce MSU Scheduler, a new content type developed for ANGEL that allows faculty members to create, and students to schedule appointments from the lessons tab of an ANGEL course.
To MSU’s online instructors by Brendan Guenther, Director MSU vuDAT…
Because their press release seems to be garnering attention, many of you are probably already aware of Blackboard Inc’s purchase of ALI, the vendor that created our ANGEL learning management. If you are planning on launching online or blended courses at MSU, or have already developed [...]
The ANGEL 7.4 – What You Should Know Breakfast Series archive has been posted to the Web. If you are teaching online or blended courses, take a look and see the upgrade schedule, how to get help and what some of the new features will look like.
Just as a reminder, the ANGEL 7.4 upgrade is [...]
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