User talk:Mmdriskell

Hello, Mmdriskell, and welcome to Wikipedia! It appears you are a course instructor leading a class project.


 * New to Wikipedia or want to learn about best practices for Wikipedia assignments?

The training includes instructions for setting up a structured course page, with tools for tracking student work and encouraging peer review. Please also see this helpful advice for instructors.

If you run into problems or want some feedback on your Wikipedia assignment plans, try posting to the education noticeboard.

We hope you like it here and encourage you to stay after your assignment is finished! VViking Talk Edits 16:57, 9 January 2015 (UTC)

thanks. after i did the training it prompted me to make the course page using the wizard, but i already did that… do it agin?Mmdriskell (talk) 18:04, 9 January 2015 (UTC)


 * I'm not sure how that works. But my guess is since you created the course page you probably do not need to do it again. VViking Talk Edits 00:22, 10 January 2015 (UTC)

Checking on student assignments
Hi Mmdriskell. You can see whether your students have done the training here. (Five have.) You can also see the article space edits they've made here. (None of them seem to have edited articles yet.) Your course page also provides links to each student's edits - if you click on [contribs] next to their names you can see every edit they've made. -- Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 20:34, 30 January 2015 (UTC)

( Am I missing anything re: the dashboard, ? Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 20:34, 30 January 2015 (UTC) )

Yes, thanks. I found the Dashboard today. If we have a question about a possible article, who would we direct that too? Mmdriskell (talk) 21:25, 30 January 2015 (UTC)


 * Send any questions like that my way. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 21:54, 30 January 2015 (UTC)

Change in your user rights
Your Wikipedia account was previously granted a user right called "course instructor" by the Wiki Education Foundation. That right enabled you to create a course page through the EducationProgram MediaWiki extension. Starting in fall 2015, the Wiki Education Foundation has discontinued its use of this extension. Going forward, users should create course pages through the Wiki Education Foundation website. That application is more user-friendly, and any content is automatically mirrored to Wikipedia. To prevent confusion, we'll be removing your "course instructor" user right, as it is not needed with the new system. This is simply a notification of the technical change to your account. No action is needed from you at this time.

If you plan on teaching with Wikipedia for the fall 2015 term, please email me (helaine@undefinedwikiedu.org) for instructions how to create your next course page using our new system. --Helaine (Wiki Ed) (talk), sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 02:34, 21 July 2015 (UTC)