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- From the home page you can easily access the major branches of the project: Research, Design, and Outreach. Another important branch from the home page is Team Resources
- What is a child page? Each successive branch of the tree is a child page of the branch above it. Design Calendar is a child page of Design, for instance.
- How do you find
- Past research
- Go to the Research to see all of the teams that currently exist and have existed in the past. A typical research page is home>research>Chemical Dose Controller
- Assignments Home>Team Resources>Team Assignments
- Due dates are all on the syllabus
- the sandbox
- This one is trickier because you cannot navigate directly to it, you have to use the search field. The sandbox is not navigable because it is just a place to play--if you are not sure about how to do something, try the code in the sandbox first so you can test if it works without messing up your own wiki page.
- Past research
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- Log in
- Go to View on the top left of any wiki page. **
- Click on Account>Log In>Log in with Cornell NetID
- Creating a new page
- Be sure you are on the page that you would like your new page to be a child page of.
- Click on Edit in the top left corner
- Go to New>Page
- You can add a template for some pages. The "Global" templates aren't useful, but some of the ones labeled "Space" are. and ours which are "Space" template
- Naming Pages: do not name a page too generally. When you use a name, that can be the only time you use it on the wiki. Each team's calendar page is named "Design Calendar" "Outreach Calendar", etc., so that the word Calendar is not hogged by one time. Also the page name becomes part of its web address, so it is helpful to be descriptive.
- When editing a page immediately set the default to Wiki Markup and not Rich Text (rich text seems easy but there are a lot of bugs in it and it is harder to keep our formatting consistent with it, wiki markup is easy to learn and it allows us to all use the same headings, bullets, etc)
- Add a template to it, distinguish between the "Global" (useless) templates and ours which are "Space" templates
- Talk about naming conventions-- do not name a page "Meeting Minutes 3/3/03" you should always use a descriptor for your team like "Team A Meeting Minutes 3/3/03" so there is no confusion between who is responsible for what pages. Also the page name becomes part of its web address, so it is helpful to be descriptive.
- Create different headings on it
- Add a link using brackets
- Add bullet points
- Move that page
- Now delete it
Now take them to the calendar and explain that each team has to log in to CUAguaClara@gmail.com and add their weekly meeting times and locations.
Also go to edit a page that has pictures and equations on it so you can show them what the code looks like to do that. Remind everyone that the directions for adding equations and figures are in the wiki organization guide and they don't need to remember the code!
- The sidebar give you helpful hints for
- Text Formatting
- Headings
- Lists
- Tables
- To create a link:
- Type the URL of the website and add brackets [] around the outside.
- If the page is on the wiki, you can just type the name of the page (Design Calendar, for instance) inside the brackets.
- If you would like to have someone go to a link by clicking on word instead of a URL (For examples: Check out this awesome website! where clicking on website brings you to google), type a bracket, then the word, then a | then the URL, then the ending bracket.
- You can move the location of a page by dragging it around on the tree at the bottom of the page while you are editing it.
- To delete a page, go to Remove Page on the top right corner while editing it.
- To edit a page that already exists, go to Edit on the top left>Edit this page...
- The sidebar give you helpful hints for
Your First Wiki Assignment
All team members have to
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make sure their contact info is correct on our roster home>team resources>team roster and alumni
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. Please fix it yourself if it is wrong.
Go to assignments create personal wiki page and follow the directions there.At the end of the lecture take 5 minutes to explain the personal page assignment. Have everyone go back to the Home page and show them again how to navigate to the syllabus and to the assignments page (both from team resources). Show them the personal page assignment, it has very detailed step-by-step instructions, and tell them they should do it ASAP while the wiki lecture is still fresh in their heads!
Team Leader Preparation for Wiki Training Lecture
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