Wikipedia talk:Education program/Assignment Design Wizard

Suggestions from Jami

I'm not sure how many reviews this text has already gone through, so I don't want to make my suggested changes directly to it and mess up your hard work. Here are some suggestions that you can incorporate or not.

Choosing a Wikipedia assignment

You can teach with Wikipedia in several different ways, and it's important to design an assignment that fits on Wikipedia and achieves your student learning objectives. Your first step is to choose which assignment(s) you'll be asking your students to complete as part of the course. We've created some guidelines to help you, but you'll need to make some key decisions, such as: which learning objectives are you targeting with this assignment? What skills do your students already have? How much time can you devote to the assignment?

Most instructors ask their students to write an article. Students start by learning the basics of Wikipedia, and then they focus on the content. They plan, research, write, and revise a previously missing Wikipedia article or an existing course-related topic that is incomplete. This assignment typically replaces a term paper or research project, or it forms the literature review section of a larger paper. The student learning outcome is high with this assignment, but it does take a significant amount of time. To learn how to contribute to Wikipedia, your students need to learn both the wiki markup language and key policies and expectations of the Wikipedia-editing community.

If writing an article isn't right for your class, other assignment options still give students valuable learning opportunities as they improve Wikipedia. Click on an assignment type to the left to learn more about each assignment.

Find and fix errors

Are we sure this is minimum 6 weeks? This seems like a smaller assignment that could be 4 weeks for sure, which is helpful as an alternative for instructors who want to teach with Wikipedia but only have a short amount of time. Jami (Wiki Ed) (talk) 20:31, 22 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed. It's easily 4 weeks, maybe 3 or 2.--Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 20:33, 22 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Copyediting assignment

"By focusing on word choice, students learn about the “authoritative” voice and how its tone can convince, even if the content is questionable." I was just editing this and wasn't sure what the "even if the content is questionable" is supposed to convey, so I didn't want to remove it. Does that mean something along the lines of, "even if the article's quality is unknown," or something else? Jami (Wiki Ed) (talk) 21:13, 22 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

DYK/GA

Just a thought. It would be really awesome if we could identify the instructors who are interested in getting Ian/Adam's support for DYK/GA. BUT we don't want to overwhelm them with every class wanting it. Maybe we can make it an option for the instructor to identify 2 good candidates once they have created drafts, and then Ian/Adam can follow up with that for those students. I know this doesn't have to be in the ADW, but it could become one step in the assignment, "Instructor has submitted two great drafts to Wiki Ed to walk the students through any appropriate edits." Or something along those lines. Jami (Wiki Ed) (talk) 22:18, 22 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Documentation request

It seems that these templates are mostly not intended to be used manually, but to be created through a wizard. If so, the wizard is leaving behind content that users may want to edit manually, either to change the details, or to fix lint errors, which is what brought me here. If there is an instruction manual for the templates in this category, please say where it is.

If there isn't an instruction manual, it needs to be written.

Many templates in this category have stripped </div> tags and/or missing end tags for <div>. This may be OK, but the instruction manual should explain the proper way to deal with this.

The following templates start with a stripped </div> and then have a missing end tag for <div> inside Wikipedia:Education program/Assignment Design Wizard/timeline box:

The following templates start with a stripped </div>:

Template:End of course assignment

The following templates start with a stripped </div> and then have a stripped </div> in {{hidden end}} and then a missing end tag for </div>:

The following templates start with a stripped </div> and then have 3 missing end tags for </div>:

These stripped tags and missing end tags mean that the templates must interact in defined ways, and to completely avoid lint errors, perhaps there needs to be a <div> before any of these templates are used, and a </div> at the end. All this needs documentation.

—Anomalocaris (talk) 01:34, 8 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]