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Request for instructor right (Paula Aucott)

Paula Aucott is helping me run my Applied Human Geography course at the University of Portsmouth, which now has this course page:

As Paula is doing most of the administration of students and their assigned places, I need her added as an additional instructor. She is User:Paula_vob

Humphrey.Southall (talk) 10:47, 18 February 2014 (UTC)

Request for instructor right (Jane Lehr)

Hello, I am teaching ES/WGS 350: Gender, Race, Science & Technology at Cal Poly and am requesting instructor right.

For their 3rd Wikipedia assignment in the quarter, students have the option to move from comparative analysis of Wikipedia Pages of scientists/engineers from over- and under-represented groups (assignment 1) and writing a draft contribution in word processing software (an edit or talk page contribution) (assignment 2) to, now, making their Wikipedia edit and/or contributing to a Talk Page. (The other option for assignment 3 is to create a proposal for an edit-a-thon at Cal Poly, and evaluate the likely success of that event in our community.)

• • • This is the first assignment that asks students to contribute which is why I am only requesting instructor right now. ***

Course description: This course explores the complex relationships between gender, race, science, and technology in historical and contemporary contexts. This examination highlights the role of ethical, social, cultural, political, and economic factors in determining historical and contemporary meanings of scientific and technical practice, as well as knowledge and beliefs about gender, race, class, and sexuality. The course also asks students to engage with reform efforts that seek to create more socially responsible scientific and technical knowledge production and decision-making practices.

Instructor name: Jane Lehr Institution: California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo Term: Winter 2014 Class Size: 36

What other information do you require?

Thanks! Jane

@Jlehrcalpoly: I granted you the user right and started this course page for you. Please add any other relevant information (deadlines, grading rubric, etc.) and ask your students to enroll on the page via the button on the top left. I will be in touch with you via email with other relevant information and so we can discuss your assignment further. Thanks for reaching out to us here! Jami (Wiki Ed) (talk) 20:12, 11 February 2014 (UTC)

Adding an instructor to an existing course

Hello! - I'd like to add User:BeanieJonesH as an instructor on my course Interaction, Experience and Engagement. Could you please give this user instructor rights? Many thanks. --ToniSant (talk) 14:45, 11 February 2014 (UTC)

ToniSant:  Done --Sage Ross (WMF) (talk) 15:05, 11 February 2014 (UTC)

Thanks! --ToniSant (talk) 10:11, 12 February 2014 (UTC)

Student editor asking for help at the Teahouse

Please see Wikipedia:Teahouse/Questions#How do I add a course code?. A student editor seems to have become lost and wandered in there looking for help. The Teahouse regulars are not very familiar with the ways of Education programs, so I hope someone here can help the student editor find what they're looking for. Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 09:09, 12 February 2014 (UTC)

Wiki Education Foundation February 12 2014 update

Frank Schulenburg has been named as the Executive Director of the Wiki Education Foundation. Here is the press release giving more details. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 21:19, 12 February 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for the update. Blue Rasberry (talk) 21:21, 12 February 2014 (UTC)

Request for Instructor Right (Michele Petracca)

Hi, I'm teaching Psyc/Bios 212: Behavioral Neuroscience, and Psyc 180: Psychology of Sleep and Dreaming at Nebraska Wesleyan University. Both of my classes have assignments that involve editing Wikipedia articles and contributing to Talk Pages.

Psyc/Bios 212 will be eventually writing a full article from a stub. Course description: This course explores the biological foundations of behavior. Student learn neuronal structure and function, the anatomy and physiology of the brain, sensory and motor systems, brain plasticity and repair, sleep, and other special topics. A fair amount of time is also devoted to discussing the research methods and techniques used to investigate topics in behavioral neuroscence. Instructor Name: Michele Petracca Institution: Nebraska Wesleyan University (Lincoln, NE) Term: Spring 2014 Class size: 17

Psyc 180 will make small contributions and copyedit. Course description: The objective of this course is to cover the psychological and biological aspects of sleep and dreaming. We will discuss a number of topics such as states of consciousness, memory, biological rhythms, development, and disorders related to sleep. In addition, students will gain experience in research methods related to sleep studies. Instructor Name: Michele Petracca Institution: Nebraska Wesleyan University (Lincoln, NE) Term: Spring 2014 Class size: 27

I can give you additional information about the assignments if needed. I have both classes signed up through the American Psychological Science Wikipedia Initiative Project Portal.

Mpetracca (talk) 05:33, 13 February 2014 (UTC)

• Granted, and welcome to the project! Kevin Rutherford (talk) 19:45, 13 February 2014 (UTC)
• I've left a brief note at WT:WikiProject Neuroscience. Students may find that editors there will be interested in the pages where they work, and these editors are likely to have helpful advice. --Tryptofish (talk) 22:45, 13 February 2014 (UTC)

Request for course instructor right: BIOL3946

Name

Madeleine Beekman

Institution

The University of Sydney

Course title and description

Animal Behaviour. Third year undergraduate course with approximately 70 students. As part of the course students will either edit or create a new Wikipedia page on a topic relevant to the course.

Assignment plan

Students will select a topic relevant to the course and first search if there is an existing Wiki page on that topic. If there is, they will judge if the content is of sufficient quality. If the student feels the quality can be improved, s/he will edit the page. If there is no existing Wiki page, the student will create a new page. Students will peer review each others' work but the final product will be uploaded.

Number of students

Although there will be about 70 students in total, this assignment is only available to Advanced students. Advanced students can select from different assignments, of which this will be one. We expect about 5-10 students to be involved in editing/creating Wiki entries.

Start and end dates

March 3 2014 until June 3 2014

@OhanaUnited, Neelix, Ktr101, Pharos, and Pongr: @Sleuthwood, Etlib, Biosthmors, and Kayz911: @Jami (Wiki Ed), Rjensen, Bluerasberry, and Kevin Gorman: --Madeleine.beekman (talk) 01:24, 14 February 2014 (UTC)

Looks good to me, I added your rights. Good luck with this course Madeleine, if you need any help feel free to drop us a message Kayz911 (talk) 17:35, 17 February 2014 (UTC) Return to the Course pages module.

Accidental deletion of course page

Hello all. A course I am involved with, led by User:AminMDMA, had its course page accidentally deleted. Amin posted on my talk page, and I am posting here. I see that when I go to the talk page of the course page, that it still exists. When I go to the course page, it prompts me that I can undelete it, but I get the following error: A database query error has occurred. This may indicate a bug in the software.

• Function: ORMRow::insert
• Error: 1062 Duplicate entry '313' for key 'PRIMARY' (10.64.32.22)

What can we do/what is being done about this?

Amin/Dr. Azzam, I suggest putting the course page, if you'd like to work on it, at User:AminMDMA/Spring 2014 (working there would create a user sub-page, which is allowed and encouraged, if it helps you on Wikipedia for Wikipedia purposes). Best. Biosthmors (talk) pls notify me (i.e. {{U}}) while signing a reply, thx 14:03, 14 February 2014 (UTC)

Thanks Biosthmors. The course page was moved to Education Program:University of California, San Francisco (UCSF)/Expanding WikiProject Medicine (April 2014) when the title was changed by User:AminMDMA diff. The talk page should be moved as well (and all the subpages that are used by the wizard). I didn't realize that this error could occur (as we recently made some other changes to prevent similar errors, which I think uncovered this one.) Pretty soon we're going to remove the option of changing the title of courses altogether, as it causes nothing but trouble.--Sage Ross (WMF) (talk) 15:31, 14 February 2014 (UTC)

I also found that the course talk pages can no longer be moved -- not sure why that is -- but anyhow, I've copied over the talk pages to their appropriate locations so the course should be in working order now. Sorry for the inconvenience, and thanks again for reporting the problem.--Sage Ross (WMF) (talk) 15:44, 14 February 2014 (UTC)

Request for instructor right (Natalie Baird)

Hello

I am teaching LAWS322: International Human Rights Law at the University of Canterbury and am requesting instructor right.

Third year law students will be asked to contribute to an existing page (or, rarely, write a new article) on a human rights topic. Students are likely to focus on topics on a New Zealand human rights issue (topics, case law, people, institutions), small Pacific Islands (Fiji, Samoa, Tonga) or some aspect of the international human rights system.

Instructor name: Natalie Baird Institution: School of Law, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand Semester One 2014 (24 Feb - 30 June 2014) Class Size: approx 35

What other information do you require?

Many thanks.

Natalie — Preceding unsigned comment added by Humanrights4nz (talk • contribs) 22:49, 16 February 2014 (UTC)

False notification

I see a notification from an hour ago that says User:RegOH edited Education Program talk:Saint Louis University/BIOL 460: Developmental Biology (Spring 2014) when they did not. I suppose this is some sort of bug? Best. Biosthmors (talk) pls notify me (i.e. {{U}}) while signing a reply, thx 21:53, 17 February 2014 (UTC)

@Biosthmors: That's odd. What exactly does the notification say?--Sage Ross (WMF) (talk) 22:25, 17 February 2014 (UTC)

"The course talk page of BIOL 460: Developmental Biology (Spring 2014) was edited by RegOH. 2 hours ago" Links appear on the notification to the course talk page and to RegOH's user page. Best. Biosthmors (talk) pls notify me (i.e. {{U}}) while signing a reply, thx 23:04, 17 February 2014 (UTC)