Creating a Wiki page is easy and allows the students in your course to add material throughout the semesters that you teach. It can be an excellent way to document the progression of science, education, and business. You can restrict access to this site so that only your students can see and/or update it.
1. Login to the moodle course.
2. Always turn on editing (shown left).
3. Scroll to the week that you want to add the wiki and click "add activity" in the bottom right-hand side of the topic week (shown below in figure 1).
Continue scrolling for further instructions (below).
2. Always turn on editing (shown left).
3. Scroll to the week that you want to add the wiki and click "add activity" in the bottom right-hand side of the topic week (shown below in figure 1).
Continue scrolling for further instructions (below).
Figure 1
3. Click on "add activity."
Continue scrolling for further instructions (below).
*notice the eye ball in the upper right-hand side of this picture. This indicates that the topic week is visible to students. To hide this, click on the eye ball. The light bulb allows you to highlight this specific topic week as the current week.
Select "wiki" from the activity dialog box.
4. A single click on "wiki" provides details (shown on the right-hand side of the picture) about each activity. Double click to bypass these instructions, or click "add."
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*Note-up to this point, the instructions are the same to add any activity.
Assign a Creative Name for your Wiki
5. All fields in RED must be completed.
6. In the "common module settings" you can select a group (divide the class into two groups if you have two wikis).
7. The next block down "Restricted Access" allows you to manage when the site can be viewed. For example, if you only want the students to have access while enrolled in your course, complete the date range accordingly and make sure you select the "enable" box to the right of the date boxes.
8. After all areas are completed to your specifications, click "save and return to course," or "save and display."
*Note-make sure that you have made the activity available for student view.
9. Add the pages for your wiki.
10. To add a link to the new page, Enter the title of the new page in double brackets (e.g. [[Community]]
11. After you have added all the pages in double brackets (e.g. [[Family]] [[Community]] [[Society]] [[Individual]]
12. Scroll to the bottom and save the page.
12.a. If you notice that all of your pages are not displayed with a hyperlink, click the "Edit" tab and you can go back to see if you entered a double bracket for each page, an added space, comma, etc that might have created the error.
13. Click on the link for your first page (Family) and begin adding content to that page--click "save" at the bottom.
13.a. Continue this step for each page that you have in the wiki site, click "save" at the bottom.
14. After saving all the additions, click on the "map" tab to view the framework for the pages.
14.a. After you have added content to every page, click on the link to the main page and all of the topics should be BLUE. If they are not blue, you did not enter them correctly, or you have not added content to that page.
15. To test the wiki, type in the title of one of your pages into the search bar on the top right-hand side. If you created the map correctly, your search should highlight the page that you just created.
