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Latest revision as of 09:14, 19 July 2012

Adding a wiki

As an editing teacher for a course, click "Turn Editing On", and go to the section in which you want to add the wiki.
From the dropdown menu labeled "Add an activity", select "Wiki". This will take you to the wiki settings page titled "Adding a new wiki".

In an existing wiki, the wiki settings can be found in Settings > Wiki administration > Edit settings.

Wiki administration settings

Wiki name

The name you give to your wiki here will appear as the link on the course page for your students to click.

MSG EVENT

Wiki description

Explain the purpose of your wiki here. (This description may or may not be compulsory depending on your admin's settings.)

Display description on course page

New feature
in Moodle 2.2! If this box is checked, then the description you added above will appear with the wiki link on the course page.

First page name

The name you add here will form the first page of your new wiki.

Note: If you don't change the default wording "First page name", then the first page of your wiki will be called "First page name" (which is a bit silly!) There are tracker issues relating to leaving the first page name field blank MDL-32797 and allowing it to be changed later: MDL-6488

Wiki mode

Choose between "Individual wiki" where each student gets their own, or "Collaborative wiki" where students work together on a single wiki.

Default format

Set the default type of editing your wiki will use. Chooose from
- HTML - editing using the normal text editor
- Creole - a popular wiki editing language. If this is selected, a small editing toolbar will appear.

- NWiki - a wiki editing language used in the contributed NWiki module.

Force format

If you check this box then students cannot choose their own method of editing the wiki.

Common module settings

The Common module settings section appears in many modules besides wiki. It sets Groups interactions levels and the ID number.

Restrict access settings

The Restrict access area becomes visible in Moodle activities and resource settings if Conditional Activities have been enabled.

Locally assigned roles

In Settings > Wiki administration > Locally assigned roles selected users can be given additional roles in the activity.

Wiki permissions

Role permissions for the activity can be changed in Settings > Wiki administration > Permissions.

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-::This page is for documentation on how to add/edit a wiki activity and is redirected from mod/wiki/mod
-==Adding a wiki page==
+==Adding a wiki==
-There are several ways to add a new wiki page.  In later versions of Moodle, the course participant's privileges can effect adding or editing wiki pages.
+*As an editing teacher for a course, click "Turn Editing On", and go to the section in which you want to add the wiki.
+*From the dropdown menu labeled "Add an activity", select "Wiki". This will take you to the wiki settings page titled "Adding a new wiki".
-===Add a wiki activity===
+*In an existing wiki, the wiki settings can be found in ''Settings > Wiki administration > Edit settings''.
-When the teacher selects '''Wiki''' from the [[Adding resources and activities|Add an Activity
-]] pull down menus in a course, they will be asked to create the first page.
-===Add by using search===
-Any participant (with correct privileges) of an existing wiki can enter the name of the page they would like to create in the Search box on a wiki page.  For example they might enter the name "Roses".
-: If the page already exists
+==Wiki administration settings==
-::they will be taken to the page "Roses"
+===Wiki name===
-: If the page does not exist, they will see:
+*The name you give to your wiki here will appear as the link on the course page for your students to click.
-:: '''There is no page titled "Roses"'''
+MSG EVENT
-::They can create this page by clicking on the "create this page" link
-::and begin editing the new page called "Roses"
-===From a wiki page===
+===Wiki description===
+*Explain the purpose of your wiki here. (This description may or may not be compulsory depending on your admin's settings.)
+====Display description on course page====
+{{New features}}If this box is checked, then the description you added above will appear with the wiki link on the course page.
-Participants in a wiki can also create a new wiki page by editing an existing page and adding a wiki link to the page they want to create - e.g. <nowiki>[[Roses]]</nowiki>- using brackets.
+[[File:wikisettings.png]]
-After either selecting '''Save page'' or '''Show preview''', the participant will then see a clickable link to "Roses"; they or someone else can click on it and begin to edit that page.
+===First page name===
+*The name you add here will form the first page of your new wiki.
-==Editing a wiki page==
+'''Note''': If you don't change the default wording "First page name", then the first page of your wiki will be called "First page name" (which is a bit silly!) There are tracker issues relating to leaving the first page name field blank MDL-32797 and allowing it to be changed later: MDL-6488
-Editing a wiki is simple.
-* Click on the '''edit''' tag at the top of the wiki page
-* Edit the text
-* Use wiki tags for formatting and creating links that are needed
-* Then save the page, or preview the page before saving
-==Wiki settings==
+===Wiki mode===
-[[Image:Wiki settting screen.JPG|500px|thumb|left|Setup screen for a 1.7 Wiki]]
+*Choose between "Individual wiki" where each student gets their own, or "Collaborative wiki" where students work together on a single wiki.
-The 1.5 Moodle has the "Type" (group, teacher, student) setting in the wiki settings.  The  "Group Mode" setting (No group, seperate groups and visible groups) is a course setting.  The 9 combinations of group and type settings determine what an individual student can see or edit.
+===Default format===
+*Set the default type of editing your wiki will use. Chooose from
+**HTML - editing using the normal text editor
+**Creole - a popular wiki editing language. If this is selected, a small editing toolbar will appear.
+[[File:creolenwiki.png]]
+**NWiki - a wiki editing language used in the contributed NWiki module.
-The 1.8 Moodle will have both setting Type (group, teacher, student) and an additional setting called Group Mode (No group, seperate groups and visible groups).
+===Force format===
+If you check this box then students cannot choose their own method of editing the wiki.
-==See also==
+===Common module settings===
-* Go to [[Help:Editing]] to learn more about the wiki formatting tags
+The [[Common module settings]] section appears in many modules besides wiki.  It sets [[Groups]] interactions levels and the ID number.
+===Restrict access settings===
+The [[Restrict_access_settings|Restrict access]] area becomes visible in Moodle activities and resource settings if [[Conditional_activities|Conditional Activities]] have been enabled.
-[[Category:Teacher]]
+==Locally assigned roles==
-[[Category:Wiki]]
+In ''Settings > Wiki administration > Locally assigned roles'' selected users can be given additional roles in the activity.
+==Wiki permissions==
+Role permissions for the activity can be changed in ''Settings > Wiki administration > Permissions''.
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+[[de:Wiki anlegen]]
+[[ja:Wikiを追加/編集する]]

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