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Help:Using EcoliWiki for teaching
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Several users have inquired about using EcoliWiki in classes, and we are planning to try having students do annotation on EcoliWiki in our own classes at Texas A&M. This page will review some features of EcoliWiki that will allow instructors to be use EcoliWiki productively and without worrying about students inadvertently (or deliberately) doing damage to the site. Please add your own ideas and experiences to this page and the associated Discussion page.
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Student accounts
We have created a new User group called "students". Student accounts have the same editing privileges as regular users, but they are not allowed to create new user accounts. To manage Student accounts, we've created a new user rights management tool: Special:User_rights_list. This page will list any user accounts that you created, and will allow you to change them to student accounts (note that if you do not do this, the default for new accounts is a regular user with the ability to create accounts).
If you would like a different group name for your class, or a different set of user rights for your students, please contact us at ecoliwiki@gmail.com and we can set it up for you. We suggest that your students be members of both the generic "student" group and your custom course group.
Tracking student contributions
Several features of the wiki are useful for keeping track of student contributions
Page Histories
One use of the wiki is to assign students to work on specific pages. Note that these can be either existing pages we have set up, or new pages focusing on material from your course. Each of these has a page history, and the contributions of individual students can be viewed by comparing selected versions. You can keep track of what and when your students save changes.
User contributions
You can also follow what your students are doing even if you let them choose their own pages to work on. Find your students on Special:Listusers. Note that you can filter the list to see only those in the student group, or just the students in your class, if we've set up a custom group for you. When you click on the username of a student, a new link User contributions will appear in the toolbox under the search box. Clicking on it will give you a list of each contribution made by that user.
You can make links to these contributions pages and put them on another page, such as your own user page. This allows you to construct a class roster as a wiki page, where you can check what each student is doing on the wiki.
