Help:Education Program extension

The Education Program extension for MediaWiki adds a database feature to Wikipedia, making it simple to navigate through Wikipedia Education Program course pages, ambassador profiles, and student contributions.

What can I do with it?

Everyone

• View and search data: courses, student usernames, ambassador usernames, instructor usernames, universities
• View ambassador profiles
• View course pages with syllabus, instructor, ambassadors, students, and articles
• View recent student activity
• View the Education Program program statistics

Students

• Enroll in a course (and disenroll from it) (note this does not replace formal procedures at your institution)
• Indicate what article you're working on
• View recent activity for the courses you are enrolled in
• Become a reviewer for articles fellow students are working on

Instructors

• Set up a course page
• Indicate which courses you're teaching
• Manage your list of students
• View recent activity for the courses you are instructor for

Campus ambassadors and online ambassadors

• Maintain a quick introductory profile introducing yourself to students
• Sign up to support a course
• View recent activity for the courses you are ambassador for

Regional and recruitment ambassadors

• Grant permissions to campus ambassadors and instructors

Students: How to...

...enable or disable the "My courses" shortcut link

1. Navigate to the education preferences (accessible from Special:Preferences).
2. Select "Show a link to your courses at the top of every page"
3. Press "Save".
4. To disable this shortcut, uncheck the box and press "Save".

...navigate to a course page

1. Navigate to the Institutions list (accessible from My courses).
2. Click on the name of your learning institution.
3. Select "Planned", "Current", or "Passed", depending on which applies to the course you're looking for.
4. Press "Go".
5. Click on the name of the course.

...enroll in a course

Please note that this process is in no way linked to your actual enrollment in the class at your institution; if adding the course you will need to follow the institution's formal procedures as well.

1. Navigate to your course page.
2. Next to the search bar (you may need to use the drop-down menu), click "Enroll".
3. Enter the enrollment token provided by your instructor or campus ambassador, and press "Enroll with this token".
4. If the green confirmation message appears, you're finished. Otherwise, continue following the steps below.
5. (Optional) You will be prompted at this time for your gender if you have not provided it previously. Disclosing it is optional and provides no additional functionality, except that certain messages on Wikipedia that would otherwise say "his or her" will be tailored to say "his" or "her".
6. Click "Submit".
7. If the green confirmation message appears, you're enrolled!

...access the page for a course you are enrolled in

 On hold no special method here, submitted this to bug requests.

...disenroll from a course

Please note that this process is in no way linked to your actual enrollment in the class at your institution; if dropping the course you will need to follow the institution's formal procedures as well.

1. Navigate to the course page.
2. Next to the search bar (you may need to use the drop-down menu), click "Disenroll".
3. (Optional) Enter a reason for disenrolling (such as "dropped the course").
4. Click the button that says "Disenroll".
5. If you see a green message, you've successfully disenrolled.

...indicate which article you're working on

1. Navigate to your course page.
2. In the table containing student names, locate the row containing your name. Enter the name of the article you are working on (case-sensitive). If the article already exists, verify the title is correct by watching for it in the suggestion drop-down that appears while you type.
3. Press "Add article".

...edit the name of the article in the article list

1. Navigate to your course page.
2. In the table containing student names, locate the row containing your name. Click the "remove article" link.
3. In the confirmation dialog, press "Remove article".

Instructors: How to...

...list a university

1. Navigate to the Institutions list (accessible from My courses).
2. Verify your institution is not already listed (check alternate spellings)
3. Under "Add a new institution", type the name of the institution.
4. Click "Add institution".
5. Verify the name is correct, type the nearest city name, and select the country. For countries without cities, the city may be left blank.
6. Click "Submit".

...delist a university

WARNING: Delisting a university will also delist all courses associated with it. Please use this feature with care!

1. Navigate to the Institutions list (accessible from My courses).
2. Locate the institution in the table, and click the "Delete" link next to it.
3. (Optional) Type a summary explaining why you are delisting the university.
4. Press "Remove institution" if you are sure you want to permanently remove the institution and all associated classes.

...list a course

1. Navigate to the Institutions list (accessible from My courses).
2. Click on the name of your learning institution. (If it is not on the list, you will need to list the institution.)
3. Verify the course is not already listed.
4. Fill out the "Add course" form on the page.
5. Press the "Add course" button.
6. Fill out the "Add course" form on the next page. Note: The enrollment token is a password students will enter in order to list themselves on this page as students.
7. Press "Submit".
8. If you are supporting this course, list yourself as instructor or ambassador for the course.
9. Distribute a link to the course page to all students in the course. Note that students cannot view the enrollment token, so this must be distributed to students as well.

...revise a course page

1. Navigate to your course page.
2. Next to the search bar (you may need to use the drop-down menu), click "Edit".
3. Make any desired changes.
4. In the field labeled "Summary", enter a summary of what you've changed.
5. If the changes you made are minor (for example, fixing typos, grammar, or using different words that mean the same thing), check the box next to "This is a minor edit".
6. Press "Submit".

...delete a course page

WARNING: Deleting a course page will unlink all the course's linked students. Please use caution when using this feature.

1. Navigate to your course page.
2. Using the drop-down menu next to the search bar, click "Delete".
3. (Optional): Provide a reason for deleting the course page.
4. To confirm you want to delete the course page, press "Delete course".
5. If you see a green message, the deletion was successful.

...list yourself as instructor for a course

1. Navigate to your course page.
2. Click "Become an instructor".
3. (Optional) Provide a reason for listing yourself.
4. Click the button that says "Become instructor".
5. A dialogue box will appear notifying you this was successful.

...delist yourself as instructor for a course

1. Navigate to your course page.
2. Next to your name, click "Remove as instructor". If the link does not appear, refresh the page.
3. (Optional) Enter a reason summarizing why you are removing yourself from the course page.
4. Press "Remove instructor" if you are sure you want to remove yourself from the course page.
5. A dialogue box will appear confirming the action is complete.