User:Helaine (Wiki Ed)/Course onboarding checklist

On-boarding checklist — for determining whether it is a Wiki Ed-supported course

 * We know the maximum number of students expected in the course.
 * If there are more than 50 students in a general course (or between 35—50 in a medical/psychology course), the program manager will:
 * schedule a phone call and determine:
 * the instructor's experience either editing or teaching with Wikipedia
 * the amount of content the students are expected to add
 * the number of articles the students are expected to edit
 * the number of Teaching Assistants or co-instructors in the course
 * advise, based on this information, whether the assignment is too big for the instructor's experience
 * between 70—100 courses, the program manager will only approve the assignment if the students are working in groups, adding no new pages or significant content (e.g., writing a lead based on the existing content in the article), or adding a small amount of content after posting on the article talk page
 * If there are more than 50 students in a medical or psychology course, we have actively discouraged them from doing a Wikipedia assignment in this course.
 * If there are 100+ students expected in the course, the program manager has contacted the instructor to indicate why this will be a problem and that s/he needs to pull the Wikipedia assignment.
 * If the instructor still intends to do the assignment, the program manager will add any known details to the Education noticeboard to alert the community.
 * The instructor has indicated that students might edit medical/psychology articles.
 * mail the medical or psychology brochure to each student
 * follow up: will instructor actively discourage if the topic of the course is not primarily medical or psychology (e.g., an information studies or composition course)?
 * add a Wiki Ed category to the Course Page so WikiProject Med members can monitor if they want
 * Program manager has reviewed the course plan and assignment description?
 * We cross-referenced this description with our list of red flags (see below)?
 * Has the instructor included our online training as part of their assignment?
 * If not, the program manager has reached out to stress the importance of having all of their students go through it.
 * If they will not require it, the program manager has determined what other training methods they have in place and whether this sounds reasonable.
 * The instructor will have their students start work either in sandboxes or the article namespace—students will not use other off-line spaces like Word.
 * The students will still be in the class for at least a week after they publish live articles.

List of red flags

 * size of class is over 50 students
 * may edit medical or psychology articles
 * instructor wants synthesis and original research
 * is not using a milestone assignment (with various deadlines and due dates)
 * students working off-wiki to develop content
 * no details about course
 * introductory/survey class for first-year or non-majors
 * controversial topics of study
 * no evident requirement for students to enroll on Course Page
 * does not address plagiarism and copyright violations
 * requirement to add media without media training materials
 * minimum word requirement
 * group accounts: one user account per group of students
 * fewer than 6 weeks devoted for a writing assignment
 * requiring DYK or GA status
 * students are graded based on what "sticks" on Wikipedia