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Feedback on Education Extension

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Just dropping a note here to say that the whole issue about having the Education Extension was just a complete waste of time. After responding positively to the suggestion, I got involved in a whole heap of discussion on phabricator, which ended up with "This should not be deployed to more wikis until all the security issues that this extension have are resolved; which IMHO is unlikely to happen. We can restore this change later if such miracle happen." see here, which I found particularly disappointing - like someone offers something which is really not going to happen. Which is a shame because the Education extension would deal precisely with Managing student contributions! Leutha (discusscontribs) 23:17, 18 November 2015 (UTC)Reply

Is the extension active on Wikipedia? If so, it might be possible to use sister-links to interface with Wikipedia. Also, I have no idea what these "security issues" were. Do you?--Guy vandegrift (discusscontribs) 01:58, 19 November 2015 (UTC)Reply

Yes, the extension is available on Wikipedia, and indeed is regularly used to manage student contributions there. It is well worth having a look at Help:Education Program extension. As for the security reasons, I have no idea what they are! Leutha (discusscontribs) 13:46, 19 November 2015 (UTC)Reply

We can turn their refusal to allow Wikiversity to our advantage. I am convinced the best way to manage student writing assignments is through permalinks, which I hope to use via Wikipedia's Education extension. Once on that platform, I can "infect" Wikipedia education extension users with the idea of having students write on Wikiversity.--Guy vandegrift (discusscontribs) 15:31, 19 November 2015 (UTC)Reply
I just struck that last comment after spending a day learning about this extension. We need it on Wikiversity. I seriously doubt that operating out of Wikipedia will be of much use. The platform allows almost seamless sister-links out of Wikipedia into Wikiversity, but unfortunately it seems highly likely that the ability to closely monitor student edits on each others work can be sister-linked in that way. And since Wikivesity and Wikipedia have different templates, we cannot conviently move resources in and out of Wikipedia.--Guy vandegrift (discusscontribs) 20:24, 20 November 2015 (UTC)Reply

First effort!

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After studying this extension, I think we can use it from Wikiversity. It's a bit awkward, but by forcing Wikiversity to use the Wikipedia extension, we might be able to recruit instructors to join us at Wikipedia. Our acceptance of student work and use of subpages makes Wikiversity a far more convenient platform than Wikipedia.

See w:Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/Wright State University/Introduction to Astronomy (Spring 2016)

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