I am unable to close the Eye of Magnus at the Ancano confrontation. I wait until the mages start attacking him, then I start firing the Staff of Magnus at the Eye of Magnus. It will not close. I am stuck at this point. Is their a fix for this? Even if I have to use the console, I want to get this done.

Sounds like a bug. The Staff should cause the plates of the Eye to drift together until it's a solid ball. (Then switch to your best bow with best arrows and shoot Ancano until the arrows longer longer damage him, then switch back to the Staff and zap the Eye again. Repeat until Ancano is dead.

There is the possibility that while the graphics are failing to show it, the program considers that the Eye is, in fact, closed. In which case, keep cycling Staff and weapon until Ancano is dead. If this isn't the case, go back to an earlier Save -- there should be a fairly recent Autosave from when you entered the building prior to the climactic battle -- and see if the same thing happens. If it does, you may be hopelessly bugged.

I went to a previous save several times and it didn't work. Is their a way to complete this quest using the console?

Do you have the Cutting Room Floor mod installed?

I was finally able to get it. What I had to do was use tdetect on Tolfdir before Ancano's self-glorifying speech. Apparently, what that did was allow Tolfdir to give me directions when appropriate and I was then able to effect the Eye of Magnus. Killed Ancano and all was good. I got that idea from a youtube video that someone put up where they did that.