Moodle 3.8 - 24 What is Wiki in Moodle
Moodle 3.8 - 24 What is Wiki in Moodle
Wiki: build knowledge together. 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, because it is a wiki
which is collaboratively created and
edited. Moodle has a wiki too, which you
could set up for your learners for
instance to do a group project doing
some research or to write a combined essay.
To add a wiki we go to our course page
and we turn the 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 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 ,or we can click
twice to get straight to the setup
screen. The name is important because
it's what the students will see on the
page to access it and you can then give
a description of what you want them to
do with the wiki and you can tick the
box Display description on course page.
Normally a wiki would be group work -
collaborative - but you can, by changing
the drop-down menu here, have an
individual wiki and then each student
would have their own copy for instance
as a personal notebook.
We are going to keep it as collaborative
however and the next thing to do is to
choose the first page name and this must
be carefully thought out because it
cannot then be altered.
There are other settings but for now we
just go to Save and display and get our
wiki started. You see now that we press a
button to create this page. If you don't
understand any of the other formats just
leave it as default; it's absolutely fine.
And we now have our first page of the
wiki.
To set up links to make up the other
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. When we
scroll down and save it ,we see that we
have links but these aren't yet pages
until we actually click onto them and
create those pages in the same way that
we made the first page,so if we click on
the Reading link, we're them 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. For now if we
scroll down and save that page, we can
take a look at some of the other links
in a wiki. If we look at the tabs at the
top:
Map takes us two 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 page to go and revert
changes, and if enabled, Comments allows
you to see and add comments to the wiki.
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