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Warning! The Education Extension is being deprecated. Please use the Programs and Events Dashboard for all new programs!Get to know the tool through an introductory training module (on the Dashboard) or read the documentation and Frequently Asked Questions on Meta. Please direct any comments or concerns here on wiki or direct an email to education wikimedia.org.
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The Education Program Extension for MediaWiki adds features to Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects that support classes of students editing articles.
It includes structured Institution and Course pages and feeds of recent activity by students.
Please see also the help page on English Wikipedia and the learning pattern on Meta.
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সম্পর্কে
The Education Program Extension facilitates educational programs by adding features for teachers and students that are improving Wikimedia projects as part of the Wikipedia Education Program.
Those features include various interfaces to manage courses, students, institutions, mentors, etc., as well as improving workflow for everyone involved (enrollment, seeing changes made by other students, article and reviewer association, and providing several analysis/statistics interfaces).
This page documents the features and usage of the extension.
It explains how to download, install, and configure it on a your own Mediawiki installation.
It also links to information on using the ListStudents API to get from the extension usernames or user IDs for the students in one or more courses, which can then be uploaded as a cohort to Wikimetrics.
These slides were presented at the 2015 Wikimedia Conference (WMCON15), They give an overview of the extension.
They cover: what it is, what it does, how it works, and why it helps. These slides also provide a SWOT analysis and examine the extension's strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats.
This page documents the extension's impacts on Wikimedia projects.
বৈশিষ্ট্য
The Education Program Extension allows teachers and volunteers to register a course on a Wikimedia project.
A registered course gets a page of its own, called a course page. You can add a description of the course. You can register students in the course with their usernames.
And you can view the students' work collectively, chronologically, in a format called an activity feed, which acts like a news feed of students' edits.
It also creates a list of volunteers who are supporting courses and a list of professors that are running courses. Volunteers can create a user profile about themselves. Currently, professors cannot. Those are the most important features.
কার্যকারিতা
The Education Program Extension provides functionality specially developed for the Wikipedia Education Program.
- Course management
Without the extension, the process of creating courses and managing data linked to them is ad-hoc. The extension provides interfaces for creating and managing courses and linked data.
- Signup and tracking of students
Without the extension, the process of signing up and tracking students is manual. The extension automatically aggregates students' usernames on their course page.
- Course monitoring and reporting of student contributions
Several groups need to be able to either monitor the course activity and access the student data or summaries of this data. The extension allows for easier course activity monitoring and reporting of students' contributions.
- Teachers want to be able to track their students' progress so that they can appropriately guide and grade.
- ছাত্রছাত্রীরা তাদের নিজস্ব অগ্রগতি দেখতে চান।
- অ্যাম্বাসেডর এবং অন্যান্য অভিজ্ঞ সহযোগীরা যেখানে প্রয়োজন সেখানে ছাত্ররা কী সহায়তা করছে, সেক্ষেত্রে প্রয়োজনীয় সহায়তা / নির্দেশিকা সরবরাহ করতে চান।
- Several parties, including the WEP itself, want to be able to get to all data and summaries, to analyze the success of the program and find trends.
সুবিধাসমূহ
এক্সটেনশন ব্যবহার করার অনেক সুবিধা রয়েছে। এটা বিভিন্ন সমস্যা সমাধান করে।
- Automation. Automates program management. More accurate than manual tracking.
- সরলীকরণ কর্মসূচির নেতাদের প্রতিবেদন মূল্যায়ন এবং উন্নতি সাধনে সাহায্য করে।
- স্বচ্ছতা অবদান জমা এবং সম্প্রদায়ের সঙ্গে সম্ভাব্য দ্বন্দ্ব হ্রাসন করে।
উপরন্তু:
- এটা আপনার অগ্রগতি দেখতে সাহায্য করে।
- এটা আপনার বৃদ্ধি দেখতে সাহায্য করে।
- এটা আপনার প্রভাব পরিমাপ করতে সাহায্য করে।
- এটি আপনাকে ব্যর্থতাকে দ্রুত সনাক্ত করতে সহায়তা করে যাতে আপনি সেখানে আপনার শ্রম বন্ধ করতে পারেন।
- এটি আপনার ভাল কাজ চিনতে সাহায্য করে!❤
This page documents the impacts of the Education Program Extension on the Wikimedia projects.
এক্সটেনশন প্রাকদর্শন
If you wish to see how the extension looks, visit any of the projects where it is deployed. There is a list here.
অনুসন্ধান বাক্সে, টাইপ করুন:বিশেষ: প্রতিষ্ঠান অথবা
বিশেষ: কোর্স অথবা বিশেষ:অনলাইন সেচ্ছাসেবক অথবা বিশেষ: শিক্ষার্থীরা অথবা বিশেষ: ছাত্রছাত্রীর কার্যকলাপ.
Those are some of the interfaces that any user can see when the extension is deployed on a project. To view the full list of interfaces available to users through the extension, go to Special:SpecialPages and search on the page for "Education" (in English).
For demonstration and testing purposes, we have created a fictional example institution called Foo University and a fictional example course page called Wikis and Wiki Technologies.
And here are examples of real course pages at real universities on English Wikipedia:
On English Wikipedia, courses at universities in the United States and Canada that are supported by the Wiki Education Foundation use a different template. The background color is purple.
And the connect box in the header directs questions to contactwikiedu.org. All other courses are supported by the on-wiki community, local education programs, and the global education program team at the WMF.
On those course pages, the background color is blue. And the connect box in the header directs questions to the education noticeboard.
Here are examples of English Wikipedia course pages that are supported by Wiki Ed:
এক্সটেনশান সক্রিয় করা
The Education Program Extension can be installed on any Wikimedia project, though it was mostly geared toward the Wikipedia use case.
To determine whether or not the education extension is already installed on your project, go to the Special:Version page on your project. For example, on English Wikipedia, that page is here: en:Special:Version.
Or go to Special:SpecialPages. For example, on English Wikipedia, that page is here: en:Special:SpecialPages). Search on the page for the word "Education" (in English). If you see a section called "Education", then the extension is installed. If you do not see a section called "Education", the extension is not installed.
বর্তমান ইনস্টলেশন
Currently, this extension is being used on 20 Wikimedia projects: on 5 sister projects in 18 languages.
Please check the Wikimedia-Extension-setup workboard on Phabricator for requests to deploy / enable / install the extension on new Wikimedia projects.
| প্রকল্প | ভাষা | কোড | অবস্থা | মূল প্রস্তাব / কমিউনিটি আলোচনা / আরএফসি | ফ্যাব্রিকেটর অনুরোধ | নিউজলেটার ঘোষণা | বিশেষ: প্রতিষ্ঠান |
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| Wikipedia | Albanian | SQ | Possible | ||||
| Arabic | AR |  Done
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T59729 | Link | |||
| Belarusian | BE | Possible | |||||
| Bulgarian | BG |  Doing...
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Plans | ||||
| Catalan | CA | Done
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Portal Discussió:Educació | Link | Link | ||
| Chinese | ZH | Doing...
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| Czech | CS | Done
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Link | ||||
| Dutch | NL | Done
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Link | Link | |||
| English | EN | Done
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RfC | Link | |||
| French | FR | Possible | Talk page discussion | ||||
| Greek | EL | Done
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Link | ||||
| Hebrew | HE | Done
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Link | ||||
| Latvian | LV | Done
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Link | Link | |||
| Macedonian | MK | Done
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Link | T50262 | Link | ||
| Persian | FA | Done
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Link | Link | |||
| Portuguese | PT | Done
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Link | ||||
| Russian | RU | Done
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Link | Link | |||
| Serbian | SR | Done
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Proposal Vote |
T110619 | Link | ||
| Slovak | SK | Doing...
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Proposal | ||||
| Spanish | ES | Done
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Wikipedia:Café | Link | |||
| Swedish | SV | Done
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Link | ||||
| Ukrainian | UK | Done
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Вікіпедія:Кнайпа | Link | Link | ||
| Wikiversity | German | DE | Done
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Link | |||
| English | EN | Doing...
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Wikiversity:Colloquium Wikiversity:Education extension |
T111630 | |||
| Wikinews | English | EN | Done
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Link | |||
| Wikisource | French | FR | Done
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Wikisource:Scriptorium | T105853 | Link | |
| Wiktionary | Hebrew | HE | Done
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T89393 | Link |
নতুন ইনস্টলেশনের অনুরোধ
If the education extension is not yet installed on your Wikimedia project but you would like it to be, please contact Tighe Flanagan for more information and to discuss how this is done. If you would like to use this extension on another language Wikimedia project, please follow these steps:
- 1. Translate the extension for your language, if it is not already.
- Check translation status here: translatewiki.net/message group:education program.
- See internationalization instructions here: mw:Extension:Education Program#Internationalization.
- 2. Establish consensus to enable it on your wiki, typically by holding a Request for Comment. Although a simple Village Pump/Community Portal discussion and a "yes/no" decision may be sufficient for the default configuration. There are several examples linked in the table above.
- 3. Submit a request on Phabricator to enable the Education Program Extension (pointing to the on-wiki consensus) and/or ask Anna Koval (WMF) to do so for you. There are several examples linked in the table above.
- Please add a CC/subscriber to your task:
TFlanagan-WMF
- Please add a CC/subscriber to your task:
- Please add these projects to your task:
Wikimedia-Extension-setupandMediaWiki-extensions-EducationProgram
- Please add these projects to your task:
- 4. Assign the extension user rights as needed for instructors and for the editors coordinating the use of course pages. Or, ask a project administrator to do so.
- 5. (OPTIONAL) Translate or adapt the training modules to use in conjunction with the extension.
- 6. (OPTIONAL) Announce the deployment in the education newsletter. There are several examples linked in the table above. The education team can help you.
If you have your own installation of MediaWiki and would like to enable the this extension on it, please follow these steps.
এক্সটেনশন ব্যবহার করে
To get started using the extension after it is installed on your project, please follow these steps:
- যথাযথ কোর্স ব্যবহারকারী অধিকার পান
- Getting course user rights
This extension introduces four new user groups to control the functions of the extension and identify users associated with particular course roles.
The four course roles are "course coordinator", "course instructor", "online volunteer", and "campus volunteer".
These rights only work within the "Education Program" namespace on the project. By default, these rights are all assignable by administrators, and administrators inherit all associated user group rights.
The technical rights and the community context for which they are intended are explained here.
After the extension is installed on a wiki, administrators (or sysops) can grant (optionally) course user group rights to users who support education program activity on the wiki.
The course coordinator user group rights give full access to all course page features, including creating and deleting courses and granting the other course rights to other users.
The course coordinator user right should be granted to education program managers/leaders/coordinators and anyone else who will be managing the use of the extension's functions (if they are not already administrators or sysops on the project).
Administrators and course coordinators can grant (optionally) the "course instructor" user group rights to instructors, and the "online volunteer" or "campus volunteer" user group rights to online/campus volunteers.
Some communities also grant the online volunteer role to the regional education program manager for additional support and oversight.
- Adding institutions
An institution page in the "Education Program" namespaces shows courses offered at a specific institution.
An institution page shows:
- Institution name
- Institution location
- All Wikipedia Education Program courses (past, present, and planned) at that institution
Project administrators, as well as users in the course user groups (course coordinator, course instructor, course online volunteer, course campus volunteer), may create, edit, or delete an institution page.
- Adding courses
A course page using the "Education Program" namespace organizes information related to a course.
A course page shows:
- Course name
- Term
- Start and end dates
- Number of students
- Status (current, planned, ended)
- Description of the course (often including or linking to a syllabus)
- Instructors
- Volunteers
- Students
- Articles that students are assigned to create or improve
- Articles that students are assigned to review
To create a course page, you must have a user account on the project as well as the rights to do so (either admin rights or any of the "course" rights -- course coordinator, course instructor, course online volunteer, course campus volunteer).
You can request the appropriate rights on the project's Village Pump or Community Portal or on some other locally designated page, for example, on English Wikipedia, course user rights are requested on the Education Noticeboard.
1. Check to see whether your institution (e.g., your college or university) is already in the course page system by going to Special:Institutions.
If not, add it. (If you are logged in and have the proper rights, you should see an “Add a new institution” section above the list of institutions already in the system.)
2. Go to your institution page, then start your course page. In the “Add a course” section, select your institution from the pulldown menu, enter the course name and the term (e.g., 2013 Q1), and click “Add course.”
3. Fill in the details for your course including an “enrollment token” that your students will use as the code to allow them to enroll on the course page, the start and end dates, and a description of the course in general and what students will be trying to do on Wikipedia in particular—and then press “Submit” to create the course page.
4. You can then use the Special:MyCourses page (linked from the top of the page near your username, called "Courses") to see recent activity from your students after they are enrolled in the course.
- Enrolling students
1. First you must add your institution, add your course, and set up your course page -- see steps above.
2. After your course page has been created, you can send your students the URL of your course page along with the enrollment token.
3. All students must have previously created created their Wikipedia accounts. Logged in users can enroll themselves as students in the course -- see screenshots below. Alternatively, course coordinators, course instructors, and course volunteers can enroll students as well.
4. Students can then use the Special:MyCourses page (linked from the top of the page near your username, called "Courses") to see recent activity from in the course.
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Step 1. Click the 'enroll' tab -
Step 2. Type the enrollment token -
Step 3. Select gender -
Step 4. Success message
- Additional features
- Preferences - The extension introduces a new preference for displaying a conveneient link to Special:MyCourses in the personal tools links at top right corner of every page. Instructions to enable this preference can be found here.
- Special pages - The extension creates a set of related special pages for presenting information about classes and student activity.
- Interface messages - Some optional interface messages can be used to customize the appearance of course pages and their default content.
- Getting student usernames for Wikimetrics
- ListStudents API - An API can be used to get a list of usernames or user IDs for the students in one or more courses, which can then be uploaded as a cohort to Wikimetrics.
- Deleting duplicate courses or institutions
- Remove duplicate courses - In some cases, the same course or org may be listed twice in the courses list, because it has two different course IDs. To clean this up, users can delete courses by ID number through the API.
Training on using the extension
- Video tutorial: How to use course pages
- Video tutorial: How to create a course page
- Wikipedia:Setting up your course - This training module covers how start a course page on English Wikipedia.
- Wikipedia:Course pages - This page describes the features of course pages, and related customization, as used on English Wikipedia.
Options for course pages
This learning pattern explains the value of creating a program portal on your local wiki.
This learning pattern explains the value of using course pages to organize your assignments on your local wiki.
This list tracks current courses on English Wikipedia, so that people can see what the extension is like in actual practice.
This course page uses plain wikitext.
This course page uses the {{course page}} wizard template.
This course page uses custom tab-based layout.
This course page (in Arabic) uses complex styling.
Roadmap, plans, and updates
Information about the project's current roadmap, future plans, and status updates is posted here on MediaWiki.
See also
- Wikipedia Education Program on MediaWiki
- Education Program Extension on MediaWiki
- Help: Education Program extension on English Wikipedia
- Education Program extension on English Wikipedia
- Education noticeboard on English Wikipedia
- Learning pattern: Using the education extension on Meta