creating a wiki activity

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Creating a Wiki Activity

A wiki activity is a collection of collaboratively authored web documents. Basically, a wiki page is a webpage that everyone in your class can create together, right there in the browser, without HTML

experience. A wiki starts with one front page. Each author can add other pages to the wiki by simply

creating a link to the page.

Wikis get their name from the Hawaiian term "wiki wiki," which means "very fast." A wiki is indeed afast method for creating content as a group. It's a hugely popular format on the Web for creating

documents as a group. There is usually no central editor of a wiki, no single person who has final editorial

control. Instead, the community edits and develops its own content. Consensus views emerge from thework of many people on a document.

Moodle's wiki is built atop an older wiki system called Erfurt wiki:http://erfurtwiki.sourceforge.net .

In Moodle, wikis can be a powerful tool for collaborative work. The entire class can edit a documenttogether, creating a class product/project, or each student can have their own wiki and work on it with the

instructor and their classmates.

It may be useful to think of a wiki's front page as a structured table of contents. Essentially, a wiki is

organized by its links.

Creating an English Literature Wiki

In this Wiki exercise, well be creating one group wiki for the entire class. All students are permitted to

edit the wiki.

1. Log into your course and click2. Click the Add an activity drop-down arrow and clickWiki
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3. On the Adding a new Wiki window, give the wiki a descriptive Name4. In the Summary field, describe the purpose of the wiki and explain what is expected to be contributed

to the wiki by the students

5. The Type for this wiki is Groups.6. The Groupmode is No groups.

This wiki matrix explains how the group type and group mode work in conjunction with one another.

Group Mode

Wiki Type No Groups Separate Groups Visible Groups

Teacher

Creates a single wiki that onlythe instructor can edit. Students

can view the wiki, but cannotedit the wiki.

Each group has a wiki that onlythe instructor can edit. Other

groups cannot view or edit thewiki.

Each group has a wiki that onlythe instructor can edit. Other

groups can view the wiki, butcannot edit the wiki.

Groups

There is one wiki for the class.

All students can edit the wiki.

There is one wiki per group.

Students in that group can editthe wiki. Other students (not inthe group) cannot view the wiki.

There is one wiki per group the

group members can edit. Othergroups can view the wiki, butcannot edit the wiki.

Student

Each student has their own wikithat only the teacher and studentcan edit.

Each student has their own wikithat they can edit. Students inthe same group can view the

wiki as well, but cannot edit thewiki.

Each student has their own wikithat they can edit. All otherstudents in the course can view

the wiki as well, but cannot editthe wiki.

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Allow binary filesIf you allow binary content (such as images), there are two possibilities:

1. You can upload and use images on wiki-pages. When editing a page, an upload formwill be displayed for uploading images. After a successful upload, an image code is

displayed that you can embed in your pages using square brackets. For example:

[internal://myimage.gif].2. You can attach files to a Wiki Page which can be displayed by the attachments action.

The size is limited to the setting made in Moodle.

Wiki auto-linking optionsA 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. CamelCasecombines 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 insquare brackets is the only way of creating a new page.

CamelCase is a standard wiki feature, and disabling it may cause other imported wikis towork incorrectly. Use this feature only if you are absolutely certain you do not want

CamelCase linking.

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 optionsWhen students can edit a page, you can allow them certain administrative privileges in thewiki.

1. Allow set page flags Flags are properties that may be assigned to a wiki page thatallow you to change the type or behavior of the page. Checkboxes select the page flags.

Available page flags are:

a. TXT - flags that the page contains text.b. BIN - flag to indicate the page contains binaryc. OFF - disables a paged. HTM - Allows HTML for this page (the general Wiki setting precedes this

flag).

e. RO - Indicates the page is read onlyf. WR - Indicates the page is writeable/editable


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2. Allow strip pagesWhile the wiki engine tracks changes, it stores old versions in the database. To de-clutter the data, you may occasionally want to delete all the old versions and just keep

the new one.

3. Allow remove pagesThe wiki engine automatically tracks pages that aren't linked from anywhere else (they

were created and then the link was deleted) and empty pages. This tool allows you toremove these orphaned wiki pages, which can't be reached through the ordinary wiki

interface.

4. Allow revert mass changesThe revert mass changes tool allows users with appropriate access rights to roll backall changes made to the wiki by a specific user. The following options are available to

restrict the revert process to only the effected pages:

Author field patternEnter the author's IP address or host name in this field. The user's IP address

can be found within the Logs report.

Specify the number of hours from the last time a page edit was submitted, to be

included in the revert process e.g. 24, 48 72 etc. This allows you to set a 'set

back to' day for restoring a wiki.

How to operateYou must choose one of the following options to specify how the revertprocess should operate based on the specified author's edits:

(Revert) Only if it was the last change Version diving, also delete changes made after - Revert to a previous

version and delete all subsequent changes made to that page by thespecified author)

Version diving, but only purge the affected one - Revert to a previousversion but only delete the version that the author edited

Delete how many last versionsSpecify the number of page versions that should be deleted in the revertprocess.

Page nameThis is the initial page name for the wiki. If you want the first wiki page name to be

something other than the wiki name, specify it here. This name will become the first page

of the wiki for every created instance of this wiki. If you leave this field blank, the initial


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page name will be the wiki name - unless you select a page in the Choose an initial

page field.

Choose an Initial PageThis is the content which can be initially filled into the Wiki. If you want your own initial

content, create it as text-files and upload it to a directory in the course files area. Then

select one of the files as the initial page. All pages in that directory will become content forevery new wiki structure created for this wiki, and the selected page will be the first page.

GroupingA grouping is a collection of groups within a course. If a grouping is selected, then theusers assigned to groups within the grouping will be able to work together. Group mode

must be set to separate or visible groups.

Available for group members onlyIf the "Available for group members only" checkbox is checked, then the activity (orresource) will only be available to users assigned to groups within the selected grouping, orto any group if no grouping is selected.

8. ClickSave and display9. In the next window, enter the information for your first wiki page. Dont worry too much about the

formatting; the page can be edited at any given time.

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10.ClickPreview to view your page before saving. Youll be presented with a view of the page as well asthe editing area where you can continue to edit and preview the page.

11.ClickSave to save and view your first wiki page

12.To edit the page click the Edit tab, and youre back to the editing page

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Editing Area

Wiki Page Preview


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Adding a Wiki Page

The course participant's privileges can affect adding or editing wiki pages. First you must create a link toa page that does not exist, and then the wiki will create the blank page which can be edited.

1. Click the Edit tab2. Enter the following text the text must be enclosed in brackets

[Other Resources for English Literature]

3. ClickSave4. The page you have just edited will now be displayed. The words "Other Resources for English

Literature" will be displayed with a question mark link immediately after it and will look like this:

Other Resources for English Literature?

5. Click the question mark(?) to access the Edit this page Other Resources for English Literaturesection of your new page

6. Enter the text for the new page and clickPreview or Save7. The link to the page has been added to the first/original wiki page English Literature WikiView of the Wiki with the New Page link
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