2007 ANGEL IMPACT Awards - Extreme ANGEL Conversion

Award Recipient

West Texas A&M University
West Texas A&M University’s “FastTrac” Campus-wide ANGEL Deployment and Implementation
Canyon, TX

Contributors

Bill Clark, WTOnline Lead Programmer; Anson Henthorn, WTOnline Programmer; Ken Langston, Supervisor, Distance Learning; James Webb, Director, System Support and Network Services; Lora Haasl, Manager, Instructional Innovation and Technology Lab; Raymond Duncan, Supervisor, Information Services; Andrew White, Manager, Open Access Lab

Program Description

The West Texas A&M University FastTrac team started its move from a totally custom online environment to ANGEL in August 2006. In January 2007 for the first time in the university’s history faculty and students received access to “a learning management system that provides consistency in look and feel, is easy to navigate and is integrated with the SIS.

The FastTrac team, functioning according to industry standards and best practices, with a focus on student learning and engagement and faculty application skills, in a very short timeframe:

• Trained more than 260 faculty, GAs and/or TAs face-to-face and 70 online to convert 2,111 courses to ANGEL.
• Integrated their SIS with ANGEL.
• Prepared online orientation materials.
• Provided 7,000 students and 300 faculty access to ANGEL in 161 online and 1,948 hybrid courses.