User talk:FKoudijs (WMF)

Hope this is the place for this, but I just wanted to mention that this has been sitting for a while awaiting attention, and enquire what sort of time frame a response could be expected in. An earlier message I got identified you as the person to contact with educational questions. Best regards. MHAN2016 (talk) 22:12, 19 February 2016 (UTC)
 * Dear MHAN2016 thank you for reaching out. It is great to see that you created your course! The Dashboard is a tool that you can use freely for your class. Please note that we are currently building out the tool so that it can be used on multiple wikis in different languages. As far as I am aware, the way the Dashboard functions right now (and this may have been different when you created the course, since it's under construction right now) is that you can create a course there and move forward with it without any needed approvals. Please let me know if you run into any problems with this and I can see if I can help troubleshoot. Thanks for using the Dashboard! FKoudijs (WMF) (talk) 22:49, 19 February 2016 (UTC)
 * Oh, right. Thanks for the swift reply. It's just at present it says "Your course has been submitted. Wiki Ed staff will review it and get in touch with any questions." across the top. I do have another question myself. It isn't clear to me how students are supposed to register on the course. Is that covered somewhere? MHAN2016 (talk) 22:57, 19 February 2016 (UTC)
 * Thanks MHAN2016 for the follow-up. It looks like you are caught in a somewhat strange position of having started to use a piece of software that is being developed as we speak. Yes, it is live already, because it is an instance of the Wiki Ed Dashboard. The Wiki Ed Foundation works in the US and Canada on English Wikipedia, so your course is outside their scope. Given that we are currently adapting it to be used on different language Wikipedias, I'm not sure that at this point the Dashboard would work and would be able to pull information from French Wikipedia, if you'll be working there as well. I hope you have some patience until I figure out the answer. I can let you know on Monday afternoon (Pacific time) what the current status is and what that might mean for your course. In the meantime, if you have any further information about your course, what you are proposing to do, on which Wikipedias, etc, that would be helpful as context for me. I am curious to hear how you found the Dashboard, since it's not a tool we've actively promoted yet. Thanks! FKoudijs (WMF) (talk) 23:20, 19 February 2016 (UTC)
 * Well, for the present I've put everything on my user page, so you can see there what I'm trying to get my students to do. I used the dashboard because one of the answers to one of my first queries suggested I should, but I'm perfectly happy to be bold and muddle through, as long as I'm not treading on any toes, so no hurry about the dashboard as such. If this works I'll be doing it again next year, and hopefully things will be more settled by then. MHAN2016 (talk) 23:28, 19 February 2016 (UTC)
 * Dear MHAN2016, I think the best course of action would be for you to find the international version of the Dashboard next year for your next course. I would expect it to be in much better and more usable shape then. I'm sorry you got caught in a piece of experimental and currently developing software. I do not have a permanent address for you yet, as we are still building that too, but feel free to reach out to me or to anyone linked on this page for an update then. I wish you all the best, and please don't hesitate to reach out if you have any further questions. FKoudijs (WMF) (talk) 18:47, 23 February 2016 (UTC)