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If you've ever gone to Wikipedia
to look something up you might have noticed that you can actually
edit the page. You can add information to it that's because this is a wiki
which is collaboratively created and edited
document. Moodle has a wiki oto which you could set up for your students for example
to do a group project doing some research or to write a combined
essay. So to go add a wiki we go to our course
page and we go and click the turn editing on
button top right or we scroll down to the administration block
and click the link turn editing on and then in the section where we want our
wiki
we click add an activity or resource.
This brings up the activity chooser
scrolling down we'll see wiki in the activity list
because it's an activity and if we click once
we get some information giving useful teaching ideas about a wiki
And then we can click the Add button at the bottom
to add it. The name is important
because it's what the students will see on the page to access it
and then you can give a description of what you want them to do with the wiki
and then if you tick the box display description on the course page
they will see the description there.
Normally a wiki would be group work - collaborative -
but you can by changing the drop down menu here have an individual wiki
which each student would have their own copy for example
as a personal notebook. W are going to keep it as a collaborative wiki however
then the next thing to do
is to choose first page name and this must be carefully chosen
because it can't then be altered. There are other settings but for now we just got
to click
save and display and get our wiki started.
You see now
that we need to press a button to create the page. If you don't understand any of
the other formats
leave it as default its absolutely fine and we now have
our first page of wiki. To set up the links to make up the pages
you put double square brackets around the name you want to give
the page so here are a couple of examples and this is how your learners
would also make new pages on the wiki.
Then when we scroll down and save it
we see that we have links. These aren't yet
pages until we actually click on to them and create those pages
in the same way that we made the first page so if we click on the reading link
for example we're then prompted
to create that page and we can start adding information to it
this is how your students would then
add text and information to a new page.
Now if we scroll down and save that page
we can take a look at some of the other links in a wiki
so if we look at the tabs at the top,
map takes us to the pages which have been created
and we can access them from there. Currently we only have two pages
History is a useful way
of the other learners and the teacher seeing
who has changed what on the wiki and in case of any problems
that's a handy place to go to. And comments
enables you to see and add comments to the wiki