User talk:Mmdriskell

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

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We hope you like it here and encourage you to stay after your assignment is finished! VViking_TalkEdits 16:57, 9 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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)[reply]

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_TalkEdits 00:22, 10 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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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)[reply]

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

@Ian (Wiki Ed): 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)[reply]

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

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 (helainewikiedu.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)[reply]