User talk:SpringKalmia

Welcome[edit]

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We hope you like it here and encourage you to stay even after your assignment is finished! • Arch♦Reader 06:36, 21 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for the welcome message, ArchReader! I am actually the professor for a course and my students are busy with the Wikipedia Training for Students and are enrolling on my course page right now. We have set some limited goals for this course and I will use my experience with these students to inform my use of Wikipedia assignments in future courses.

Thanks again! SpringKalmia (talk) 18:54, 22 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry for the error. Ping me if you need anything (New username). • Lingzhi♦(talk) 05:36, 6 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Student Communication[edit]

Hello. I think that I have successfully made some edits to the page Chaoborus. Hopefully this fits the subject matter and I can work more on articles such as this. I have found may stubs that are mostly on species or families considered by most as unimportant or obscure.Stoneforest (talk) 20:10, 22 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Stoneforest, I do see a log of your edits, along with activity of all enrolled students on a "MyCourses" page linked to our class. Please also add the pages you contribute to in the "articles" box on our Conservation Biology course page. SpringKalmia (talk) 21:18, 22 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Change in your user rights[edit]

Your Wikipedia account was previously granted a user right called "course instructor" by the Wiki Education Foundation. That right enabled you to create a course page through the EducationProgram MediaWiki extension. Starting in fall 2015, the Wiki Education Foundation has discontinued its use of this extension. Going forward, users should create course pages through the Wiki Education Foundation website. That application is more user-friendly, and any content is automatically mirrored to Wikipedia. To prevent confusion, we'll be removing your "course instructor" user right, as it is not needed with the new system. This is simply a notification of the technical change to your account. No action is needed from you at this time.

If you plan on teaching with Wikipedia for the fall 2015 term, please email me (helainewikiedu.org) for instructions how to create your next course page using our new system. --Helaine (Wiki Ed) (talk), sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 02:34, 21 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]