Teaching With Wikipedia

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Teaching with WikiEdu

Below are resources for instructors who would like to assign their students to edit Wikipedia as part of a classroom assignment

1. 1. Resources for instructors: specifically, take a look at the “Case Studies” handbook and any relevant subject-specific resources. The PDFs of which are available online here
  2. Our online Dashboard: The Dashboard is a tool built to help you track your students’ work on Wikipedia, provide access to our online trainings and assignment timeline, and more. To take a look, visit dashboard.wikiedu.org. If you log in and create a Wikipedia username for yourself, you’ll be able to review our newly-updated online orientation for new instructors.
  3. Sample project timelines: If you think you’d like to try and draft an assignment for a future course, you’ll need to first do the orientation, and then use our online assignment design wizard to create your course page. To do so, just click the purple “Create course” button once you complete the online training.
    You can view a sample 9-week project timeline from fall 2017 here . This template can be adjusted and customized anywhere from 6-weeks to a semester long project.
    While there, don’t forget to look at the “Timeline” tab for a weekly look at how the project is progressing, the “Students” tab for a look at all the students enrolled and what articles they are working on during the assignment, and the “Articles” tab for a list of all the articles the students touched “live” already this term. If you drop down a row in the “Students” tab you can also see edit summaries of each student edit on Wikipedia, and if use the assessment tools on the “Articles” tab you can look at the cumulative changes students have made to the article throughout the course of the assignment.
  4. Next steps: As you browse the resources, let Samantha know what questions you have. She can help answer questions via phone, Skype, or email at any time.