Wikipedia talk:Schools/Teachers' Guide

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  • Individual student usernames - This is not recommended as this gives the least control over edits made by students.
Surely a teacher can keep a tab on the submission by all his/her students if they have different usernames? In fact, if you use one name for the entire class, it's impossible to tell which student made an inappropriate edit. Separate names would allow blocking one student without wasting the lesson for the others.- 131.211.210.16 12:46, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
If thirty students create user accounts, it would take the teacher a lot of work to check each users' contributions. Billz (Talk) 12:53, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
Actually some schools use a range of IPs, allocated on startup. But if we block one, we could take out up to half a class. Archer7 - talk 12:39, 16 November 2006 (UTC)
Added a section about notifying admins so we can be ready to assist users/remove all their vandalism/remove the names and addresses of all their friends. I think this could only work if admins are around to keep this as safe as possible. Archer7 - talk 14:22, 16 November 2006 (UTC)
I think we should also say somewhere about administrators not being official staff or something like that. Basically, don't give out the names of all your students to someone just because they are called an administrator, they're the same as all the other users. But I do want it to say that administrators are the people you should go to if some personal info is posted, even though that is sort of a contradiction. Archer7 - talk 14:31, 16 November 2006 (UTC)