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In this video we will take a look at the Wiki
Activity in Moodle 2
Let’s begin by adding a wiki to our course. On your course page,
click the button labeled Turn editing on.
Find the module in which you wish
to add the Wiki and click the menu for Add an activity.
Then select Wiki from the list of options.
You will need to give the Wiki
a name (which is the link that will display on the course
, and a description. It is a good idea
to give students instructions on how to edit the wiki.
In the fields for Wiki settings, you
can change the name of the first page. I usually use
“Home” or “Introduction” or something similar..
You then have the option of setting the wiki to be a collaborative wiki
wiki in which groups of students build the wiki (this is
the usual way that wikis are used) . But, you can set it up
up as an individual wiki. You might choose this option if you
would like each student to work on a document or project which you can closely
monitor. This is also a good tool for an ongoing
journal, because students can create a new page for each journal page.
The next group of settings should look familiar as they are common to all activities
in Moodle: groups, restrictive access settings,
, and activity completion settings. When you’ve selected
your preferences, click Save.
A link to the Wiki will appear on the course page.
To access the wiki, click the link.
This is what the wiki will look like before you’ve actually
done any work in the wiki. The wiki
description appears at the top of the page. The first
page of the wiki has not yet been created. Notice that the
the first page is going to be called “Introduction”. This is
something I established when I set up the wiki. Below
Below that you see there are three formats.
Creole, Nwiki and HTML
Creole and Nwiki are standard wiki languages.
They can help with portability across wikis. Your choice will
change the way the editing tools look. Since, HTML is the
the one most individuals are familiar with, that’s
the format we’ll use. To begin creating our Wiki,
we will click the button labeled “Create page”
This is what the page will look like: A set of tabs will appear.
Below that is the textbox
in which the wiki is composed. Below
that are fields for tags. Let’s take a close
look at the “Editing this page” textbox.
The HTML toolbar
should look familiar. And the textbox size probably
also looks familiar. Some people get frustrated using
using such a small box to construct their wiki. It can, however,
be expanded to fill the entire page, with the simple click
on the icon in the upper right corner of the toolbar.
The little question mark next to the HTML format,
will provide additional information for editing the wiki.
The most important thing for students to know is how to create a new page
page in a wiki. That is done by enclosing the name of the page
in double square brackets.
On the home page for our wiki we have an introduction of text, a table of contents
and, you’ll notice below the table of contents, in double
brackets we typed “Page 1”. When we save this
this is what it will look like
This is the first page of the wiki
Notice that once I save the editing page
the double brackets went away, and page 1 actually became the link to the
new page. To begin editing this new page
I click the link
To begin building this new page, which is
labeled Page1, I need to click the button
labeled “Create page” the same way that I did when I created
the first page. This is how the wiki is built: page
by page. After a new page has been created
it displays the tabs that allows the page to be edited, commented on,
exported and more. What is particularly important for instructors
and more. What is particularly important for instructors
is the History--that is being able to see who did what
and when. If you are using a collaborative wiki
several students can edit one
page in the wiki. So the wiki becomes truly a
creative and collaborative document.
Every page in the wiki will have these tabs.
To see the History of a page, simply click the tab
labeled “History”.
Here is an example of what the history page might look like. Notice that
it tells you the date and time and edit was made. It tells you
who made it and it allows you to compare the changes
That was an introduction to the
Wiki Activity in Moodle 2. Thank you for your time and attention.