Extension:Education Program/Preferences

Preferences
Users can choose to show a "Courses" link at the top of every page, which links to Special:MyCourses. When enabled by the user, the "Courses" link appears in the personal tools links at the top right corner of the page, between "Beta" and "Watchlist"). The preferences for the Education Program extension appear in the Appearance tab of Preferences, in a section titled "Education" as shown in this image.

User groups
The extension introduces four new user groups: Course coordinator, Campus volunteer, Online volunteer, and Course instructor. By default, these are all assignable by administrators, and administrators inherit all associated user rights. The technical rights and the community context for which they are intended are as follows:

Course coordinators
Course coordinators (ep-coordinator usergroup) are trusted editors who are given full access to the education program extension. They can create and delete course pages and institution pages, assign the ep-instructor right to users leading courses, assign the ep-campus and ep-online rights for users who are assisting the course (respectively) in-person or online, and remove a reviewer or student from a course.

Administrators have access to all the rights of the ep-coordinator usergroup, and can grant the right to trusted editors according to community-determined criteria.

Campus volunteers
Campus volunteers (ep-campus usergroup) are users who are working with courses in person to help instructors and/or students learn to contribute to Wikipedia. For courses in the Wikipedia Education Program, these are the Education Program campus ambassadors; the user right can also be assigned to those who are helping in-person with courses that are not part of the Wikipedia Education Program.

Users in the ep-campus usergroup may edit course pages and institution pages and may sign up on a course page to be a campus volunteer for a course. Admins and course coordinators should grant the campus volunteer right to Campus Ambassadors working with Wikipedia Education Program courses as well as editors in good standing who wish to volunteer in person helping other courses.

Online volunteers
Online volunteers (ep-online usergroup) are users who volunteer to help specific courses on-wiki. For courses in the Wikipedia Education Program, these are the Education Program online ambassadors; the user right can also be assigned to those who are helping online with courses that are not part of the Wikipedia Education Program.

Users in the ep-online</tt> usergroup may edit course pages and institution pages and may sign up on a course page to be an online volunteer for a course. Admins and course coordinators should grant the online volunteer right to Online Ambassadors working with Wikipedia Education Program courses as well as editors in good standing who wish to volunteer on-wiki helping other courses.

Course instructors
Course instructors are users who are running Wikipedia assignments and other organized editing events using the course pages through the Education Program extension. This includes, but is not limited to, instructors who are participating in the Wikipedia Education Program.

Users in the ep-instructor</tt> usergroup may create and edit course pages and institution pages and may sign up as an instructor for a course. They also may remove a student from a course they instruct. Admins and course coordinators should grant the course instructor right to everyone who seems to be leading a legitimate course.