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Wikis

A wiki is a website of one or more pages that allows people to add and edit content collec6vely. This wiki has an easy‐to‐use editor that lets you quickly add content and style your work. Your wiki starts off with one page: the homepage. You can add new pages at any 6me and link them together.

Finding a Wiki Site

There are two main places that you can access a wiki from within your online course or organiza6on:

The Central Course Wiki site is found within the Tools area of your course or organiza6on. Team Wiki sites can be found in any content area where the instructor has created them.

Each course has one Central Course Wiki but can have many Team Wiki sites.

Accessing the Central Course Wiki

1. Go to your course.2. Click on the Tools link within the course menu.3. Click on the Wiki Tool.

Accessing Team Wikis

1. Go to your course.2. Click on the content area (Course Documents, Assignments, etc.) in the course menu.3. Browse the sub‐folders, if any.4. Click on View to open a wiki.

Uses of a Wiki

Teams LX™ is a special wiki designed to give students and instructors tools for collabora6vely crea6ng rich media websites within the course management environment. Users sharing a common online workspace author content, assemble research, and present their work.

Collabora6ng on online projects

Wikis is a great way for instructors to create group assignments. Students work coopera6vely to develop, write, and publish their solu6ons in the form of websites. This process encourages them to think cri6cally and analy6cally as they evaluate and organize relevant content.

Crea6ng a shared course resource

Wikis allow instructors and students to collabora6vely build shared knowledge bases within courses. Users can maintain an up‐to‐date, online course resource by authoring content, linking to external resources, contribu6ng opinions and analysis, and re‐framing exis6ng content.

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Assessing group par6cipa6on

Wikis provide a course tool to help instructors assess the group project work they have assigned. This tool allows an instructor to drill down into the individual contribu6ons of each student and to track the evolu6on of a group's response during the problem‐solving process.

Crea6ng Wikis

You can create as many wikis as you would like in your course. These wikis can be configured in different ways to create different learning ac6vi6es. Note that each course and organiza6on also has one Central Course Wiki that you can turn on or off.

Addi6onal wikis are created within the Control Panel or in the Edit View of course content areas. Wikis are created by adding a special kind of content type in a course content area such as Assignments or Course Documents. Addi6onal wikis cannot be created if the Instructor has disabled the wiki content type in the course Control Panel.

Create the Wiki

You can create a wiki by adding a special kind of content type within a course or organiza6on Content Area, such as Assignments or Course Documents.

Open your course’s Control Panel through the Tools sidebar in your course and select the Content where you wish to create the wiki. Select Wiki from the drop down menu in the top‐right and click Go. You can then select the sebngs that will suit your specific inten6ons.

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Configuring Your Central Course Wiki

By default, the Central Course Wiki is set up such that the instructor is the only user who can edit and create pages.

Open your course’s Control Panel through the Tools sidebar in your course and select Configure Wiki Tool under Course Tools.

Evalua6ng Par6cipant Performance

Open your course’s Control Panel through the Tools sidebar in your course and select Access Wikis under Course Tools.

This page shows all the wikis that have been assigned in the course and allows the instructor to view the details of a par6cular site.

Click View Par:cipa:on next to a wiki to get to the Par6cipa6on page. The report shows an up‐to‐date summary of each par6cipant's contribu6on to the site.

The Par6cipa6on page shows a breakdown of the total page saves and the total lines modified. These metrics can help an instructor determine the level of a student’s par6cipa6on within the Teams site.

"Total Page Saves" shows the number of 6mes that a par6cular student has saved a page in the wiki and the percentage of total page saves made by that student.

"Total Lines Modified" shows the number of lines modified by a par6cular student and the percentage of the total lines modified by that student.

To filter the Par6cipa6on page by date, select the appropriate filter from the drop down menu in the top lee corner, and the page will automa6cally refresh.

Click View Detail next to a user on the Par6cipa6on page to view the Par6cipa6on Detail for that user in a wiki. More detailed informa6on about the content contributed by the user to each page can be viewed.

Click See Change History next to a page on the Par6cipa6on Detain page to view the changes made to that page in the wiki.

You can then click on the View Diff bufon to see earlier versions and the changes a student made.

Using a Wiki

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Viewing Pages in a Wiki

You can see a list of the most recent pages in this wiki in the "Site Naviga6on" module in the gray side bar. To see all the pages click Page List in the toolbox module in the gray sidebar. Click on an item to jump to that page.

Commen6ng on an Entry

The comments area displays at the bofom right of each wiki page. Comments are hidden un6l you click on the comments link. Aeer opening and viewing the comments, you can add new ones via the Add Comment form.

Note: Depending on your permissions in this wiki, you may or may not see the Add Comment form.

Crea6ng a New Page

To add an entry, click New in the page sec6on of the gray sidebar.

Once you click New, you will be brought to the edi6ng page where you can create the page for your wiki and specify a 6tle for it. The new entry will be created when you click Save.

Edi6ng an Entry

To edit an exi6ng entry in a wiki, click Edit in the page sec6on of the gray sidebar.

Dele6ng an Entry

An entry can be deleted at any 6me by clicking Delete in the page sec6on of the gray sidebar.

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Once you click delete, you will have two op6ons.

Remove allows the entry to be recovered, while Delete permanently removes any way of recovering the contents. When you delete an entry, the exis6ng text is replaced with a message about who deleted it and when. That message will be invisible to users who do not have the ability to edit the journal.

Entry History and Recovering Entries

When an page is saved, a record of those changes is preserved. This stored history makes three important features possible. You can:

revert the page to a previous version track changes to pages as the content is being built recover deleted pages.

To access the history of a page, click on the History in the page sec6on of the gray sidebar.

You can then click on the View Diff bufon to see earlier versions and revert back to them.

When viewing a diff, you’ll see that changes are highlighted. New text is in green, changed text in yellow, and deleted text in stricken‐through red.

You can click the Revert bufon to recover any old versions or deleted pages. This recovery will be counted as a new version and the previous version will be available in the View Diff.

Expor6ng a Wiki

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Wikis can be exported and stored your computer. This allows you to browse the site offline, back up your material, or post the material to another website.

To export a wiki, click Export Site in the toolbox module in the gray sidebar.

Then choose Save to Disk and select a loca6on.

Exported sites are saved as a .zip file. To view the content, extract the zip and browse it in your web browser. Start browsing by first opening the "index.html" page.

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