User talk:Mholding70

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Sorting students in a course list
Thanks for writing me about Education Program:Ohio State University/EEOB3310 Evolution (Autumn 2014). This course currently has over 230 students enrolled. The situation is that you are a teaching assistant for one section of the course, and you would like to be able to rearrange the long list of enrolled students so that you can better monitor those in your section.

I will ask for a second opinion from, but my first thought is that there is no good or obvious way to do this. To achieve the same end, I might suggest that you start your own course page for your section. This at least would make it easier for you to watch them, but I can imagine some other complications. Give me a day to get a second opinion about this.  Blue Rasberry  (talk)  14:01, 9 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the ping, Blue Rasberry. There is, indeed, no obvious good way to do this. Creating a course page for each section is probably the simplest option.--Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 18:13, 10 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Okay, so it seems like that is the option at the top of the list. Email me if you would like to talk through other options, because setting up another course page could work but extra mandatory steps always run the risk of causing problems. I have time especially Thursday and Friday September during EST office hours and perhaps I could help you plan to do this, or find some other low-effort alternative. Some alternatives which come to mind are as follows:
 * Make a list of student names elsewhere, like on your userpage, and periodically check them there
 * Ask students to list themselves somewhere else, like on your talk page. This would introduce them to the Wikipedia comment system and make them identified to you.
 * Decide what information you need about the students, then ask me or someone else about how to get this. There is probably not a workaround to get general "monitoring" but there may be quick ways to check certain things.
 * I would like to help more. Let me know.  Blue Rasberry   (talk)  19:24, 10 September 2014 (UTC)