<p dir="ltr">Please feel free to write up the assignment guidance on a wiki page or similar, that way community members can help flesh out details - for example video tutorials of building tools in josm or the tasking manager pages on learnosm.<br>
We can also help with querying, validating work etc as mentioned; and link to qa tools.<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On 23/01/2015 7:58 AM, "Paul Norman" <<a href="mailto:penorman@mac.com">penorman@mac.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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On 1/22/2015 10:53 AM, Mueller, Thomas wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Obviously this should not be a difficult for
them, but I am hoping it will accomplish several objectives
including:<u></u><u></u></p>
<p><span>1)<span>
</span></span>Help map the area<u></u><u></u></p>
<p><span>2)<span>
</span></span>Help the students understand how
they can “donate” their time to help (within a topic in their
field)<u></u><u></u></p>
<p><span>3)<span>
</span></span>Hopefully this will become part of
their routine so they will continue, etc.</p>
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I would recommend you start off with an assignment mapping their
area - it's much easier to learn to map when you know what an area
looks like from personal experience.<br>
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I have one question – how is the best way for me to check that
they have completed this assignment every week? Should I have
them copy and paste their history on to a Word Document? Is there
a better way?<u></u><u></u></blockquote>
If you get their OSM username you can then view their contributions
for the last week and check their changesets. Tools like achavi
(<a href="http://nrenner.github.io/achavi/" target="_blank">http://nrenner.github.io/achavi/</a>) can be used to visualize a
changeset and hdyc (<a href="http://hdyc.neis-one.org/" target="_blank">http://hdyc.neis-one.org/</a>) can be used to look a
users total contributions.<br>
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