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Invite Students to your wiki
There are three ways to invite your students -- including the BRAND NEW Classroom Accounts
- Request Access
- Upload email address
- Automatically create accounts without email address (for students under 13)
- How to introduce your wiki to students so it works (we covered this under week one - wiki structure)
- What to expect when your students take over
- Wiki management, notifications, page history reversion.
Live Discussion on inviting students and the suprising results -- Tuesday Aug 12th at 1:00 PDT (Sign up here)
Homework week four: this should take 30 minutes
- Set your notification setting in my.pbwiki.com to make sure you receive notifications of student changes
- Upload your student email addresses, or print out your student accounts
- Determine what invite method works for your class
ALSO - Answer the following questions on inviting students and email notifications. There are two places to find the answers:
Homework Questions:
Create a new homework Week Four page & place it in the Week Four folder. Remember to link it to your Camper page!
1) How do you change your notifications to view each student edit as it happens?
2) How do you set a student's access level?
3) Where is the setting to allow users to request access?
4) How do you change to security setting of your wiki?
Discuss: What is the best practice when naming student accounts?
Comments (10)
Rob Curry -Piedmont Room 20 said
at 5:58 pm on Aug 11, 2008
If in fact we don't start schools for 2 weeks, we won't have emails to upload.
If we teach 6th grade and below, we have no students 13 and over.
Kristine said
at 6:28 pm on Aug 11, 2008
Rob,
Why don't you practice by uploading a practice student -- just to test it out. I want to make sure all your questions are answered before school begins - or you're actively using the wiki.
Kristine
Mrs. Diane Main (Staff) said
at 10:21 pm on Aug 11, 2008
I have a recommendation, though I don't know how this would be implemented. It would be really great if there were folders (or some other way of categorizing) within the Users list for a wiki. I just uploaded e-mail addresses for all my students in grades four through eight. I would love to be able to put each user into a folder or category based on grade level, and then be able to select all the users within that folder or category to do a mass change of access. (I gave them all page-level access, and then I am going to make them writers in just the folder of pages for their grade level.) Does this make sense?
Rob Curry -Piedmont Room 20 said
at 6:38 am on Aug 12, 2008
Great Idea. Already done with all my many seldom used personal email accounts.
I know how to do that. Thanks
Kristine said
at 12:31 pm on Aug 12, 2008
That makes a lot of sense, I entered that as a feature request.
Barbara Jean Walsh said
at 7:04 pm on Aug 12, 2008
I miss the "notifications" link that used to be under settings. That gave me to option of preventing notifications from going out to specific people in my wiki, and made it my choice, not theirs. There are situations where that is useful, if not important.
Harry Hafele said
at 4:16 pm on Aug 14, 2008
I made a similar request suggesting that it would be useful to be able to assign a "tag" to a user so that you could select a group by the tag. This would be useful for assigning them to folders, or to send email or in setting access level.
Elizabeth Jane Kraut said
at 4:13 pm on Aug 16, 2008
I had some trouble posting my comment on the "Discuss: What is the best practice when naming student accounts?". Do nI need to create a new account for that discussion?
Sarah Cecire said
at 9:01 am on Aug 18, 2008
I would agree about the "Notifications" link giving us the option of preventing notifications from going out to specific people on my wiki. I put in the e-mail addresses of one class of students and got an e-mail from one of them asking how to stop the e-mail notifications. She is receiving e-mails regarding every change I make on the wiki. Since class does not start until next week, she is receiving a LOT of e-mails because I am still building the wiki. I have several classes on the wiki so some of the information she is receiving does not pertain to her class! I did send a mass e-mail out telling the students how to change the preferences about e-mail notifications. I would like to have prevented that from happening in the first place.
Bill Briggs said
at 10:35 am on Aug 19, 2008
I think one way to prevent notifications from being sent out before a page is ready is to make it a hidden page. You can set this using the Page Security link.
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