How to create your own course page!

 

 

 

 

It is a good idea to create course pages in a wiki for the simple reason that a wiki is easy to create and update.

One of the simplest wikis is www.pbwiki.com.

 

Hence start with creating a wiki of your own at pbwiki.com. 

 

Here are the steps to create your wiki at pbwiki.com.

 

1. Open www.pbwiki.com . PBwiki will ask for a wiki name and an email ID.

 

Enter a wiki name. Use your name or a variation of it. The idea is that you may be having multiple courses, and all these can use the same wiki (i.e. different pages in the same wiki).

 

Also enter your email ID.

 

PBwiki will send you an email at the ID that you have entered. So open your mailbox and check for the email from PBwiki.

 

You will have to click on a link in the email.

 

The link takes you to a page where you may select options like purpose of the wiki (select: educational) and access (select: public).

 

Now you have your wiki page.

 

 

2. To enter text in the wiki page, just type in, as if you are using a word processor.

 

You can create links, additional pages, upload files (.doc, .ppt, .xls, .pdf, etc.) limited to a total size of 10 MB.

For instance, your course material can be uploaded and linked to from the web page.

 

If you like, you may use one of the templates provided at these links: Template1 Template2 Template3  Template4

 

To use one of these templates:

 

1. Click on the link

2. CTRL-A   (selects all from the template page)

3. CTRL-C (copies the template page)

4. Open your newly created wiki and click on "New Page". Select the "No template" option. Click "Create New Page".

5. CTRL-V  (pastes the copied template into the new page)

6. Edit to suit your requirement (You may do this later if you feel so)

7. Save the wiki page.

 

 

You are now ready with your course page.

 

Let KGS know the URL of your course page, so that a link can be provided to your course page.

 

 

Advanced Instructions

 

How to restrict access to the course material.

 

The files uploaded into the wiki can be accessed by anyone. Hence you may like to use passwords for each file. MS Office allows you to do that. It will be advisable to have the same password for all the material related to a particular course.

 

Another option is to create Yahoo or Google Groups and keep your course material in the files sections of these groups. Only the members of a group can access the files uploaded in that group. Upto 100 MB file space is available.

 

 

Where to upload docs, spreadsheets, presentations, pdf-s?

 

1. In your wiki itself. Total size: 10 MB. (Accessible to all; hence you may like to use a password)

2. Yahoo or Google Groups. Use the "files" section.  Total size: 100 MB. (Accessible only to members). This is a good idea, You can also use the yahoo group / google group for discussions.

3. Yahoo geocities: Total size: 15 MB. (Accessible to all; hence password protection advised)

4. Thinkfree.com: Total size: 1 GB. (Accessible to all, if desired; else private to the owner)

5. zoho.com: Docs, spreadsheets, presentations, wiki, project manager and so on

 

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