Extension:Education Program

About
Facilitates educational programs by adding various interfaces to manage courses, students, institutions, mentors, ect, as well as improving workflow for everyone involved (enrolment, seeing changes of other students, article and reviewer association) and proving several analysis/statistics interfaces. It was developed for the Wikipedia Education Program but is generic enough to be used by similar programs.

Feature overview

 * Browsing interfaces for institutions, courses and terms.
 * Pages with summaries and linked items for all institutions, courses and terms.
 * Edit page for institutions, courses and terms.
 * History pages for institutions, courses and terms.
 * Enrollment page for students with optional token requirement (and associated disenroll page).
 * Sortable and filterable list of students.
 * Personal courses overview at Special:ManageCourses for students, ambassadors and instructors.
 * Personal course activity overview at Special:MyCourses.
 * Overview of the program status on Special:EducationProgram.
 * Overview of student activity on Special:StudentActivity.
 * Online Ambassador and Campus Ambassador profiles.
 * Lists of Online Ambassadors and Campus Ambassadors.
 * Logging of all special education events, such as enrollment and courses association.

Requirements
requires:


 * MediaWiki 1.20 or above
 * PHP 5.3 or above

Installation
Once you have downloaded the code, place the EducationProgram directory within your MediaWiki 'extensions' directory. Then add the following code to your LocalSettings.php file:

Configuration
Configuration of is done by assigning to $egEPSettings in your LocalSettings.php file. The options are listed below and their default is set in the settings file. You should NOT modify the settings file, but can have a look at it to get an idea of how to use the settings, in case the below descriptions do not suffice.

Example of how to change a setting:

Available settings:

Developer documentation

 * High level database overview
 * Low level schema docs
 * There is lots of class-and function-level documentation ;)

Version
This is a copy of the release notes file on SVN, which might be more up to date than this page.

Internationalization
is fully internationalized. Translation of messages is done through translatewiki.net. The translation for this extension can be found here. To add language values or change existing ones, you should create an account on translatewiki.net, then request permission from the administrators to translate a certain language or languages on this page (this is a very simple process). Once you have permission for a given language, you can log in and add or edit whatever messages you want to in that language.

Authors
has been written by Jeroen De Dauw as Wikimedia Foundation contractor for the Wikipedia Education Program.