Ad-Free Education WikisThis is a featured page

This program is no longer available as of August 11, 2009

Dear Educators,

It’s with much regret that we’re announcing the end of the “Ad Free for Education Sites” program here at Wetpaint. While the program has been a tremendous success and has been used by educators around the world, it comes at a high cost to Wetpaint. With the company’s resources stretched thin, we can no longer effectively support the program going forward.

Anyone that already has a Wetpaint site in the “Ad Free for Education Sites” program or requested entry into the program prior to August 10, 2009 will remain in the ad-free program and their sites will remain ad-free.

Wetpaint does offer ad-free options for a monthly subscription; details of that program can be found here.

Wetpaint thanks the education community for their use of Wetpaint over the past two years and we look forward to supporting the community again in the near future.

Sincerely,

The Wetpaint Crew










Note
:
Wetpaint cannot currently permit students under the age of 13 to register on Wetpaint.com, per COPPA

Q & A

Q: Why did you get rid of the program?
A: It was rather expensive to administer. Every week Wetpaint would get over 1000 requests from educators for ad free sites. To administer the project, we would have to review every single one of them to make sure they qualified for the program.

Q: So now what do we do?
A: Wetpaint does offer premium subscriptions which remove advertising from the site. That is an option. Additionally, there are several other collaborative web services that offer educators ad free websites if the premium option is too expensive.

Q: If I’m in it but want to start a new one, can I do that?
A: No. Sites that are already in the program will remain ad free going forward but new sites will not be admitted. We recommend educators turn over the site from session to session. You can add new users and delete old ones.

Q: I already registered my education site to have ads removed, when will the ads be turned off?
If you have already visited the "Settings" area of your site, clicked on "Upgrades", and clicked the Select button under the "Register as an education site", and filled out and submitted the form, then you don't need to do anything else.

Over the past few weeks Wetpaint has received a high volume of requests for this free service. Please be patient while we review these requests and disable the ads.


* Wetpaint reserves the right to grant or deny ad-free status on a case-by-case basis.





jeremy_wetpaint
jeremy_wetpaint
Latest page update: made by jeremy_wetpaint , Aug 10 2009, 9:15 PM EDT (about this update About This Update jeremy_wetpaint Edited by jeremy_wetpaint


view changes

- complete history)
Keyword tags: None
More Info: links to this page
Started By Thread Subject Replies Last Post
kponline Admissions open - Jan 2010 - Post Graduate Program in Hospital Mgnt. 0 Nov 11 2009, 3:08 AM EST by kponline
Thread started: Nov 11 2009, 3:08 AM EST  Watch
ABOUT US
IHMR, Bangalore was established with the focus on national and international healthcare management under the management of Institute of Health Management Research Society (Est. 1984), Jaipur which manages IIHMR, Jaipur, a WHO collaborating centre and has been designated as Center of excellence by Govt. of India.

MISSION
IHMR is an institution dedicated to improve the standards of health through better management of healthcare and related programmes. It seeks to accomplish this through Management, Research, Training, Consultation and Institutional Networking in a National and Global perspective.

Activities
Post Graduate Program in Hospital Management (PGPHM)
Management Development Program
Research Projects and Consultancy

for Admissions Contact : 080-30533809 / 93419 80265
Website : www.ihmr.org
Do you find this valuable?    
wilson17 Suggestion to "Delete" members? 1 Oct 29 2009, 6:59 PM EDT by GBC
Thread started: Aug 20 2009, 2:30 PM EDT  Watch
This task is not possible from my recent research of these help forums. You can "ban" members, but that is not the same thing. So yes, Wetpaint, I would like to re-create my site each year with a new class and continue to use your service.... but first you need to have better controls over the members such as a simple "delete" tool just like you refered to in the FAQ with your announcement.

And just as others have responded to this sad news, I too have referred several people to this service for both education and other purposes. To dishonor the loyal education base in this manner... right before the school year at that.... is really disheartening to me. I will no longer be recommending Wetpaint.
1  out of 1 found this valuable. Do you?    
Keyword tags: None
Show Last Reply
halexander Dissappointing!!! 7 Oct 22 2009, 12:06 PM EDT by ts-wps
Thread started: Sep 15 2009, 12:44 PM EDT  Watch
I work for Jefferson Parish Public School System and I teach teachers how to use technology with their students. I have trained hundreds of people on how to use wetpaint wikis, but now because we are no longer able to remove the ads we are going to switch to another provider. I am very sad about this because I love wetpaint, but we can not deal with the ads. :(
4  out of 4 found this valuable. Do you?    
Keyword tags: ad removal education
Show Last Reply
Showing 3 of 23 threads for this page - view all