SLN SOLsummit 2011 http://slnsolsummit2011.edublogs.org March 9, 2011

1. ANGEL 7.4 Administration
SOL Summit 2011
Syracuse, NY
Brett Becker
Harry Cargile
Doug Cohen

2. Presentation Outline
• Hosting Access/Responsibilities
◆ Standard hosting
◆ Advanced hosting
• Administrator resources
• Environment Variables
◆ Creating a new tab
• Roles and Rights
• Creating custom Nuggets
• Third-party Nuggets
◆ Axciom (verifying student identities), TII, iTunesU, Library Resources
• Final grades to campus SIS
• Batch populating shells

3. Hosting Level Overview
• Standard hosting
• Advanced hosting
◆ Full ANGEL system administrator (64)
• Custom quote

4. Standard Hosting Service

5. Advanced Hosting Service

6. Application Services Contacts
• Maximum of two (2) per campus
• Primary contacts and authorized decision
makers for application services matters
• Access to targeted resources within the
Administrator’s Corner

7. Administrator Resources Demo
• Administrator’s Corner
• ANGEL Stats
• Evergreen Administrator Fundamentals
• SLN Sandbox

8. Administrator’s Corner

9. Campus Profile Information
• Application Services Campus Contacts
• Emergency Technical Contacts
• Archiving Data Address
• Archiving Password
• ANGEL Stats Information
• Evergreen Administrator Fundamentals
• Other Information

10. ANGEL Stats: SLN/ITEC View

11. ANGEL Stats: Campus View

12. Evergreen

13. SLN Sandbox
• New version/service-pack testing access
◆ SLN, ITEC, Campus Admin/Tester
• SLN Customizations ready for testing
• Campus Nugget Development
◆ Not utilized

14. Environment variables
• Global
• Role-level
• Course-level
• User-level

15. Creating a new/custom tab
• Create a new tab
◆ Admin Console  Domain Settings  Tabs
• Environment Variable(s)
◆ TABS, TAB_TEXT_tabid, TAB_URL_tabid

16. Roles and Rights
• Replace Account Groups
• More granularity
• Allows for actual “Role” creation
• Dynamic application of permissions
• Centralized rights management
• Simplified ENV VAR management

17. Roles and Rights
• Once roles are defined, it is simple to
assign them to accounts
• Accounts can have several roles
• Rights aggregate

18. Example: ANGEL 7.4 Roles
• Easy to see the hierarchy of roles
• User creation controlled by position in
hierarchy

19. Example: ANGEL 7.4 Rights
• One location for most system rights
• Changes to rights update all accounts
in selected role dynamically
• “Advanced” tab allows role-specific
ENV VARs

20. New Version Access & Testing
• SLN Sandbox
• Up-to-date Service Pack installation
• Campus participation in testing process
◆ Guide for Testing
◆ Release Notes and Known Issues

21. Creating Custom Nuggets
• Student Resources
• Faculty Resources
• Library Resources
• Test Your System
• File Management
◆ Administrator Console

22. Test Your System
Note: This resource is publically available.

23. Student Resources
Student
Orientation
Note: This resource requires ANGEL authentication.

24. Faculty Resources
SLN 101 Evergreen
Note: This resource requires ANGEL authentication.

25. Why create a new Nugget?
• Extend ANGEL to meet business rules,
requirements, & constraints

26. Creating an ANGEL Nugget
• Create Nugget code
• Create info.ini
• Nugget deployment
◆ Upload to Portal/Nuggets directory
◆ Register new Nugget
◆ Update Portal Pages, if necessary

27. ANGEL Nugget code

28. Info.ini code
• Snapshot from Test Your System Nugget

29. Nugget deployment
• Portal Components Manager
◆ File Manager to upload Nugget
◆ Register New or Re-register All Nuggets
• Portal Page Manager
◆ Update portal page(s) to make new Nugget
required or optional

30. Third-party Nuggets
• Axciom (verifying student identities)
• Turnitin (TII)
• iTunesU
• Library Resources

31. Third-party Nugget Deployment
• Standard Hosting:
◆ Contact SLN via FootPrints
- Schedule meeting (if appropriate or necessary)
◆ Provide necessary information
- i.e. Credentials supplied from third-party
◆ SLN installs and configures Nugget
• Advanced Hosting:
◆ SLN assistance (if desired)

32. Final Grades to Campus SIS
• No data push from ANGEL to campus SIS
• GB3_PUBLISHED_GRADES can be exported

33. Batch Populating Shells
• No default ANGEL “templates”
• Use of LORs and Master Courses

34. Audience Participation
• Discussions on:
◆ Environment Variable use-cases
◆ Single Sign-On
◆ Associated File Manager

35. Questions or Comments