Wikipedia:Education program/Assignment Design Wizard

The Assignment Design Wizard is a tool built by Wiki Education Foundation to help instructors in that program create Wikipedia classroom assignments that follow best practices. It serves as a replacement for course page wizard and similar templates for instructors working with Wiki Ed. The main way to reach the wizard is to complete the WP:EDUCATORS training. At the end, users can launch the Assignment Design Wizard, which walks them through the components of a good Wikipedia assignment and lets them choose options for their class. At the end, the wizard posts a draft course page to their userspace. Edits made with the Assignment Design Wizard

Note: Instructors who are not working with Wiki Ed -- those who are not located in the United States or Canada and those who do not teach in higher education -- should continue to use the course page wizard or similar templates. This process is explained at Education/Extension. International instructors should coordinate with the Global Education Team at the Wikimedia Foundation.

Code and development

 * Project board for Assignment Design Wizard development
 * Source code

Comments, questions, suggestions? Ask Sage Ross, the product manager for the Assignment Design Wizard.

Text of the wizard
The text of the wizard itself is part of the source code. In particular:
 * Assignment type descriptions
 * Main copy for each step
 * Selectable options for each step

Raw output code
The main output of the wizard is a block of wikitext — mostly a combination of templates and substituted templates — that comes from these files in the source code:
 * Course details template, which is the first part of the output. This template includes parameters reflecting some of the choices the user made while going through the wizard, as well as the basic details of the course they entered at the beginning.
 * Course description: This block of text comes directly from user input at the end of the wizard.
 * Timeline: This block of text gets from the assignment components in this file based on the length of the course and the choices the user made.
 * Grading template, which comes at the end.

For an example of the raw wikitext that gets posted to Wikipedia, see Education program/Assignment Design Wizard/example output. Here's the correpsonding page after substitution: (Note that line breaks are inserted by with calls to the substituted template .)

On-wiki assignment components

 * See also: Category:Assignment Design Wizard output templates and Category:Assignment Design Wizard formatting templates

Course details and description

 * course details: This template shows the basic details of a course. In user space, it also inserts an instructional template,, at the top, explaining to instructors how to edit their wizard-made assignment plan, request the course instructor right, and set up a live course page using the assignment plan. When transcluded onto a course page, it inserts a header bar of relevant links, Course page 2/Header 2.

Week-by-week headers and formatting templates

 * used for the first week)
 * used for all other weeks)
 * start of course week: This template takes a set of dates as parameters, and lists those as the days on which the class meets on a given week.
 * in class: This marks the start of the "In class" section of a week's assignment plan, which describes activities that should happen in the classroom.
 * class workshop: This marks the start of the "Workshop in class or outside of class" section of a week's assignment plan, which describes activities that should happen during an organized workshop session.
 * assignment: This marks the start of the "Assignments" section of a week's assignment plan, which describes what students are assigned to complete on their own. It takes the a parameter to indicate when the assignment is due (typically the next week).
 * assignment milestones: This marks the start of the "Milestones" section of a week's assignment plan, which describes milestones the class is expected to have completed by this point.
 * This is the formatting template that creates the boxes around sections of content. It's included in some of the above templates.
 * end of course week: This marks the end of a week's content. Functionally, it simply closes the last div of the timeline box for a given week.

Wikipedia essentials












Exploring the topic area and choosing articles


























Writing articles




















Review and revision




















Final touches and supplementary assignments














Grading

 * assignment grading — this template formats the grading breakdown. The parameters come in pairs: one assignment component, and one entry for how much of the grade it is worth.

Related templates

 * Course page 2/Header 2: This version of the course page header template is reworked to match the visual style of the Wizard. It also can provide a link to the corresponding course dashboard for Wiki Ed-supported courses.

Resources
https://issuu.com/assignmenthelpline/docs/what_can_assignment_help_australia_do_to_make_your