angel 7.4 administration

ANGEL 7.4 Administration

SOL Summit 2011 Syracuse, NY

Brett Becker Harry Cargile Doug Cohen

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

Hosting Level Overview •  Standard hosting •  Advanced hosting

◆  Full ANGEL system administrator (64)

•  Custom quote

Standard Hosting Service

Advanced Hosting Service

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

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

Administrator’s Corner

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

ANGEL Stats: SLN/ITEC View

ANGEL Stats: Campus View

Evergreen

SLN Sandbox •  New version/service-pack testing access

◆  SLN, ITEC, Campus Admin/Tester

•  SLN Customizations ready for testing •  Campus Nugget Development

◆  Not utilized

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

Creating a new/custom tab •  Create a new tab

◆  Admin Console Domain Settings Tabs

•  Environment Variable(s) ◆  TABS, TAB_TEXT_tabid, TAB_URL_tabid

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

Roles and Rights •  Once roles are defined, it is simple to

assign them to accounts •  Accounts can have several roles •  Rights aggregate

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

hierarchy

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

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

Creating Custom Nuggets •  Student Resources •  Faculty Resources •  Library Resources •  Test Your System •  File Management

◆  Administrator Console

Test Your System

Note: This resource is publically available.

Student Resources

Note: This resource requires ANGEL authentication.

Student Orientation

Faculty Resources

Note: This resource requires ANGEL authentication.

SLN 101 Evergreen

Why create a new Nugget? •  Extend ANGEL to meet business rules,

requirements, & constraints

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

ANGEL Nugget code

Info.ini code •  Snapshot from Test Your System Nugget

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

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

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)

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

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

Audience Participation •  Discussions on:

◆  Environment Variable use-cases ◆  Single Sign-On ◆  Associated File Manager

Questions or Comments