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Adding a wiki

Adding a new wiki in Moodle 1.7

To create a wiki:

Click the "Turn editing on" button.
Select Wiki from the "Add an activity" dropdown menu in the course section where you would like to add the wiki.
On the Adding a new wiki page, give the wiki a descriptive name.
In the summary field, describe the purpose of the wiki and what you expect students to contribute.
Select the wiki type - groups, student or teacher. The wiki type interacts with the groups setting for your course, resulting in 9 options, as shown in the type help pop-up.
Click the "Show Advanced" button (in Moodle 1.8 onwards) to display additional options (see below).
Select the common module settings (see below).
Click the "Save changes" button.

Adding and editing wiki pages

After you've created a wiki, it's available for editing. Viewing a wiki contains information on adding and editing wiki pages.

Advanced options

Print wiki name of every page

If you select this option, the top of each page will have the name of the wiki.

HTML mode

There are three options: No HTML, safe HTML or HTML only. 'No HTML' will display all HTML tags as tags. 'Safe HTML' will allow certain tags to be displayed. 'HTML only' enables the HTML editor to display in WYSIWYG.

Allow binary files

Binary files are graphics, audio, video, and other non-text resources. If you want students to be able to add files as attachments, set this to Yes.

Wiki auto-linking options

A new page can be created in the wiki by typing a word using CamelCase i.e. with a capital letter at the beginning and a capital letter somewhere else in the word. It's called CamelCase because the two capital letters resemble a two-humped camel. CamelCase combines all the words for the link into one word. Each word in the link is capitalized. When a word is added in CamelCase, the wiki automatically creates a new page and makes the word a link. You can disable this feature if you wish, so that typing a word enclosed in square brackets is the only way of creating a new page.

CamelCase is not always desirable, as some text is written in it. For example a file name might be MyFile_2007_Feb.jpg.

Student admin options

When students can edit a page, you can allow them certain administrative privileges in the wiki (see Wiki administration).

Page name

You may wish to seed the wiki with a page name for the first page.

Choose an initial page

This can be the first wiki page that is created, or a way to switch to a different front page. Other files in the same directory as the first wiki page you select will also become part of the initial wiki - see: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=8501

Common module settings

Group mode

Another location to set the group mode for the activity. If group mode is forced in the course settings then this setting will be ignored.

Visible

This determines whether students may view the activity or not.

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 {{Wiki}}
-::This page is for documentation on how to add/edit a wiki activity and is redirected from mod/wiki/mod (a help page).
-==Wiki settings==
-[[Image:Wiki settting screen.JPG|500px|thumb|left|Setup screen for a 1.7 Wiki|thumb|center]]
+==Adding a wiki==
+[[Image:Wiki settting screen.JPG|thumb|Adding a new wiki in Moodle 1.7]]
+To create a wiki:
+#Click the "Turn editing on" button.
+#Select Wiki from the "Add an activity" dropdown menu in the course section where you would like to add the wiki.
+#On the Adding a new wiki page, give the wiki a descriptive name.
+#In the summary field, describe the purpose of the wiki and what you expect students to contribute.
+#Select the wiki type - groups, student or teacher. The wiki type interacts with the groups setting for your course, resulting in 9 options, as shown in the [http://moodle.org/help.php?module=wiki&file=wikitype.html&lang=en type help pop-up].
+#Click the "Show Advanced" button (in Moodle 1.8 onwards) to display additional options (see below).
+#Select the common module settings (see below).
+#Click the "Save changes" button.
-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.
+== Adding and editing wiki pages ==
-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).
+After you've created a wiki, it's available for editing. [[Viewing a wiki]] contains information on adding and editing wiki pages.
-== Wiki auto linking option ==
+==Advanced options==
-CamelCase notation is a describes multiple words, joined together without spaces, separated by changes in case. The uppercase and lowercase letters show up like the humps of camels. It is often also called BumpyText because it could look like CaMeL_CaSe.
-Autolinking is not always desirable.   Some text is writen in CamelCase.  For example a file names might be MyFile_2007_Feb.jpg .
+===Print wiki name of every page===
+If you select this option, the top of each page will have the name of the wiki.
-==Choose an initial page==
+===HTML mode===
-This can be the first wiki page that is created, or a way to switch to a different front page.
+There are three options: No HTML, safe HTML or HTML only. 'No HTML' will display all HTML tags as tags. 'Safe HTML' will allow certain tags to be displayed. 'HTML only' enables the [[HTML editor]] to display in [[Common_acronyms#N_to_Z|WYSIWYG]].
+===Allow binary files===
+Binary files are graphics, audio, video, and other non-text resources. If you want students to be able to add files as attachments, set this to Yes.
+===Wiki auto-linking options===
+A new page can be created in the wiki by typing a word using CamelCase i.e. with a capital letter at the beginning and a capital letter somewhere else in the word. It's called CamelCase because the two capital letters resemble a two-humped camel. CamelCase combines all the words for the link into one word. Each word in the link is capitalized. When a word is added in CamelCase, the wiki automatically creates a new page and makes the word a link. You can disable this feature if you wish, so that typing a word enclosed in square brackets is the only way of creating a new page.
+CamelCase is not always desirable, as some text is written in it. For example a file name might be MyFile_2007_Feb.jpg.
+===Student admin options===
+When students can edit a page, you can allow them certain administrative privileges in the wiki (see [[Wiki administration]]).
+===Page name===
+You may wish to seed the wiki with a page name for the first page.
+===Choose an initial page===
+This can be the first wiki page that is created, or a way to switch to a different front page. Other files in the same directory as the first wiki page you select will also become part of the initial wiki - see:
+http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=8501
+==Common module settings==
+===Group mode===
+Another location to set the group mode for the activity. If group mode is forced in the course settings then this setting will be ignored.
+===Visible===
+This determines whether students may view the activity or not.
 ==See also==
-* Go to [[Help:Editing]] to learn more about the wiki formatting tags
-*HTML editing on a Moodle page
-[[Category:Teacher]]
+*[[Wiki permissions]]
 [[Category:Wiki]]
 [[fr:Ajouter/modifier un wiki]]
+[[de:Wiki anlegen]]

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