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OUWIKI, (OPEN UNIVERSITY, WIKI)
Wikis are website created by a group of people. You first create the wiki and then add a page to it. This page will be the “home” page. You or others can then add linked pages.
CREATING A WIKI
Go to the week/topic where you want the wiki to appear, and add a resource: wiki. To complete this process, you will need to: • Give it a useful title • Add a summary if you wish • Decide whether you want one wiki for your Moodle site (called a course in MoodleDocs), one for each group or individual wikis for each person. • You may set length of time to edit, dates or templates. • If you choose Group wikis, select whether they will be visible to others or not.
Save and display will lead you to the creation of the first or “home” page. (A wiki is a quick website, so you will need a “home” page. If you just saved, click the wiki title to open it.
Click the Create page button.
EDITING THE “HOME” PAGE
You are now working in the website. In order to do anything, you will need to be on the Edit tab.
On this tab, you will now have the familiar HTML editor present, and you can write whatever you wish on this page. You have the additional options of creating new pages that are hyperlinked from this page and of creating hyperlinked sections.
Sections: Headings Using headings allows other people to edit or comment on a particular section. As with good word processing procedures, you can use headings to divide the page into sections. Choose the heading from the dropdown list (between the font size and Lang), which by default is Normal.
Select the text you wish to use as a heading and choose the appropriate heading level. (Heading 3 is a good size if you are only using one or two levels.)
Make sure you preview or save and preview your work as you go by clicking the appropriate buttons.
New Pages Remember when editing that you can expand the editing area by clicking the up-pointed arrow button on the second row of HTML tool bar.
In wikis, you create the link to a new page before you create the new page. To create a link to this new page, you will need to type the title of the page in double square brackets (eg [[title of new page]] ) So if you wish to link to a page called New One, you would type [[New One]] on the home page.
If students are going to present their work through the wiki, they will each need their own page linked from the home page. For example, there might be pages for Sally, Fred, John, Tai and Jose.
When you have finished this page, click the Save changes button. The link will then become active.
You or others can create links to new pages at later dates as well.
CREATING WIKI PAGES FROM THESE LINKS
Once you have set up the links to the new pages (eg the names of the students as in the example), then the students or you could create the pages by following these steps.
• Click the link for the new page, eg where [[Sally]] was originally placed and now a hyperlink, eg Sally. • You will be asked whether you want to create a new page. • The edit window appears for your new page. • Type in the initial text of your page, then save it. Your page is now created.
Hints (from Lancaster University’s A quick guide to using the course wiki, http://csalt.lancs.ac.uk/csalt/support/OU-wiki-guide_demo.pdf)
If you're creating multiple pages, you might want to make all the links in one go when you set up the “home” page. When you do this, the 'missing' pages are indicated in the wiki index view, so students could add their appropriate pages by creating the new page.
Hint: Be careful about titles - once a page has been created, the title can't be changed.
INSERTING PICTURES
Pictures are a little bit of a pain in Moodle 1.9. They will improve in Moodle 2.
You must have a picture on the web before you can link to it from the wiki. There is no place to upload a picture file within the wiki. I have 3 suggestions for you. • Create a Flickr account and upload photos to it. This is free and you can make some photos public and others not. Public ones will need to be used for the wiki. • Create a Picassa account, and do the same. • Have the instructor set up a forum for pictures, and compose a message to it using the photo name as the subject and attach the photo to the message.
Whichever way you do this, you will need to find the URL of the photo. Right mouse your picture in Flickr or wherever to find the URL and then copy it (Ctrl c).
Linking to a picture Linking to the picture is done through the picture icon in the HTML editor.
Click the picture icon in the HTML editor; you will be able to paste (Ctrl v) the URL of the picture.
When you finish editing your wiki page/s, be sure to SAVE your work. You may preview first, but make sure you return and click the Save Changes button.
