2007 ANGEL IMPACT Awards - Extreme ANGEL Conversion

Award Recipient

SUNY Empire State College
Empire State College ANGEL Conversion Team
Saratoga Springs, NY

Contributors

Stephen Simon, ANGEL System Administrator; Fabio Chacon, Ph.D., Coordinator of Curriculum and Instructional Design; Jim Stoner, Programmer/Analyst; Nicola Martinez, Director, Curriculum and Instructional Design Center for Distance Learning

Program Description

In just a few months the team converted large numbers of faculty, students, courses and systems from a homegrown platform to ANGEL – all while conducting a full complement of fall semester online studies in the homegrown platform they previously used.

• Built 600 courses that optimized ANGEL features and verified their instructional integrity.
• Trained 500 faculty.
• Integrated ANGEL with the college SIS.
• Oriented more than 5,000 students.
• Implemented help desk and support strategies for faculty and students.
• Went live with more than 1,100 course sections on schedule for spring 2007 term.