Wikiversity:Course protection policy

You can help develop this proposal, share your thoughts, or discuss its adoption as a Wikiversity policy, guideline, or process. References or links should describe this page as a "proposal".

In order to encourage participation, utilization, and content creation here at Wikiversity, educators and teachers at "brick and mortar" schools are encouraged to use Wikiversity as a place to teach students.

What Wikiversity offers

Wikiversity is a rather flexible platform for creating content, collaborating on content, and using content to teach and learning. There have a been a variety of ways that Wikiversity has already been used in traditional academic settings, and you are encouraged to experiment and play with different methodologies in order to come up with practices that work best for your environment and system.

Course protection

The wiki software that Wikiversity uses was designed to be open and with very little page management in mind so that almost anyone can edit any page. If you need a way to manage pages so only some people can access or contribute to a work a Content Management System may be a better solution than using Wikiversity.

When using pages to teach a course, you can add templates to the top of the pages to let other Wikiversity participants know that the pages are actively being used for a courage and to not edit the pages so the materials remain stable for the duration of the course. Other Wikiversity participants should be encouraged to fork and expand upon the material if they wish to use the work. Perhaps you will see changes in the forked content that you feel would benefit your students; if this is the case, then you are encouraged to incorporate them into the course.

See also

• Wikiversity:Page protection templates
• Template:Active course
• Template:Protected course

Official policies

Assume Good Faith - Be bold - Bots - Civility - Community Review - Exemption Doctrine Policy - Privacy Policy - Privacy Policy (Meta) - Reliable sources - Research guidelines - Rollback - Verifiability - What is Wikiversity

Proposed policies

Academic freedom - Blocking policy - Bureaucratship - Chat channel policy - CheckUser policy - Child protection policy - Cite sources - Course Titles and Numbers - Course protection policy - Deletions - Disclosures - External links - Make no assumptions - Manual of Style - Naming conventions - Network naming conventions - Original research - Page protection templates - Polls - Respect people - Productive Forking and Tailoring is Encouraged - Real world schools - Scholarly ethics - Subpages - Username - User page - Vandalism - What Wikiversity is not - Catalyst