Creating and editing a wiki in Moodle 1.9

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Date created

October 2010

Duration

3:39

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Flash Video

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A short screencast video on how to created and edit a wiki in the Moodle content management system.

Transcript

Narrator (00:01)

In this video, we will review the use of wikis in a Moodle course. In order to add a wiki to your course, you must first turn editing on. Find the button in the upper right-hand corner. Once you have turned editing on, you must navigate to where you want to add your wiki. In this case, we will be adding our wiki to the end of week one.

(00:21)

Click the "add an activity" drop-down menu and select “wiki.” This will take you to the adding a new wiki page. You must name your wiki, in this case “assignment one,” and give it a short summary. At the bottom there are several options for how your wiki is displayed. Once you have it correctly configured, choose the “save and display” button.

(00:42)

This will take you to the start page of your wiki. Your start page is essentially your home page, the first thing people will see when they click on your wiki. You have not created your start page yet, and you have been prompted to do so. Click the “create page” button.

(00:57)

This will take you to the editing interface. This is where you can add the information to your wiki. In addition, you can also add multiple pages to your wiki. Using multiple pages is a great way to organize a larger project. There are two ways in which to add new pages to a wiki. The first is by hand. In order to add a new page, you must take the name of the page that you wish to create and surround it in double brackets. In this case, I’m going to create a page called "example."

(1:27)

As you can see, I’ve surrounded the word “example” in double brackets. I’m going to the bottom and clicking “save changes.” Now you can see my start page. I have the text I entered, as well as the work "Example" linked, which means that there is a new page in the wiki.

(01:44)

There’s a second way to create new pages. Once you’ve saved a start page, you can create a new page by going down to the “create new page” interface, and typing the page of the name that you would want. In this case, I’m going to create a page called "Rules." I type in the word “rules” and click “create.”

(02:05)

Now it takes me to the editing page for the page “rules.” I’m just going to type in the word “rules,” go down and click "save changes." As you can see, I have a page called "rules," with the text "rules" in it.

(02:20)

Navigating back to the start page of the wiki, which you can always use the breadcrumbs at the top to do so, you can see now that I have my start page with my text, the first page I created, as well as the additional page that I created. Clicking on the "Edit page" button takes you back to the edit interface.

(02:38)

As you can see, in the edit interface it is just "rules" surrounded by double brackets. This allows you to move it around in the wiki easily.

(02:49)

There are a couple of ways to assess wikis. The first is with the full history. Clicking on the full history of the wiki will give you a list of all of the changes, and who they have been changed by. You can compare the different changes and even revert back to a previous version of the wiki.

(03:08)

Another useful assessment tool is the “wiki index” link. Clicking on the “wiki index” link will give you a list of all the pages. This might be a better way to review a large project.

(03:18)

In addition, you can click on the “wiki reports” link. The “wiki reports” link will allow the facilitator of the course view each member of a group’s contribution to the wiki. This is a great way to make sure everything has been worked on by all group members.

Narrator (03:35)

This concludes using a wiki in a Moodle course.