Wikipedia:Education program/Ambassadors/Online

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Using the education extension

Possible tasks

Here is a list of some potential ways to engage student editors and educators in your role as an Online Ambassador:

Welcome the students in any of your classes.
Review the assignment timeline, milestones, and due dates. You may want to mark your personal calendar with notices so you can check in with students when they are close to a particular due date.
- Special:MyCourses will help you follow the edits from any students in the class you're supporting.
Offer to the professor to approve students' proposed article topics before they begin their research.
- New editors don't always search Wikipedia to see what existing material is already out there related to their research. If you help them through this process this time, they can start to understand how editors select articles to edit. For students creating new articles, this will also give them the opportunity to discuss notability concerns with an experienced editor before diving in to the research.
If you see great work that qualifies, work with your students to nominate for Did You Know or Good Article status.
You can also add any good student contributions to the trophy case.
Help a student move his/her work from the sandbox into the article namespace.
Add appropriate WikiProject banners and the Wikipedia Ambassador banner to the talk page of any new articles.
If a student is submitting a new article to AfC, review some articles in the backlog and encourage your students to do so, too.