Wiki+Basics

Let's Get Started Create Account / Class wiki **
 * First things first...
 * If you already have an account, sign in and create a NEW wiki – yes, you can have more than one under your same account. You can set privacy options to block students from your Career Ladder wiki, should you want.

Request K-12 Upgrade
 * This free-for-educators upgrade allows your wiki to upgrade to private status


 * Button Basics**
 * Page: allows for some quick adjustments
 * //Details and Tags// quickly shows the last edit (date, time, by whom) and shows what tags have been assigned (searching feature)
 * //Backlink// checks to see what pages are linked to the current page
 * //Source// shows the html code and can highlight the last edits, in code format
 * Quick way to delete, redirect or rename
 * Lock a specific page from editing through //Permissions// or //Lock//
 * Discussion
 * Comment on postings with actually editing them
 * History
 * Shows who edited when (date and time)
 * Shows what was added, and what was deleted
 * Notify me
 * Lets you follow changes made through RSS (iGoogle, for example)

Allows you to customize the navigation menu as you want it
 * Edit navigation**

Tools
 * Manage Wiki**
 * Content
 * Pages – allows you to rename, delete, lock, change permissions to pages. Also shows the number of edits and the date and time of the last edit
 * Files – Where your uploaded files live
 * Templates – create templates for class here to stream-line student work
 * Tags – for searching
 * Content manager – Never tried it…
 * People
 * Members – change member status (Members can edit regular page but not locked pages, Organizers can get to set up info and edit locked pages), can also delete folks from the wiki
 * Permissions – change a members’ permission
 * Invite People – send invites with email addresses or Wikispace user names
 * User Creator
 * ONLY works with the verified K-12 Educator accounts
 * Lets you create account for your students by uploading an Excel file of //recognizable// user names and passwords (what, no “froggielover812”?)
 * Avoids having the students input their email addresses (security issue)
 * Students do not then need their own wiki page to participate – they are linked to yours
 * Settings
 * Look and Feel – themes, colors, logo images
 * Subscription – where you do the upgrade
 * Domain name – don’t worry about this
 * Wiki Info – Change wiki name, edit copywrite info
 * Delete Wiki – When your REALLY done with it