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How to create a Wikispace Account for Lecturer’s & Student’s in a Third

level Teaching Environment:

Link to the animation when I have created it will be here:

1. Launch your Internet Brower e.g.

2. On your address bar type in the following:

http://www.wikispaces.com/

3. The following will appear:

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4. Click on Teachers and click on Sign up and start your wiki.

5. The following will be displayed:

6. Enter in the relevant details and make sure to write down your

Username and Password etc. in a safe place.

7. Choose your Wiki Name and select your industry and also select

Editable website and click on join:

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8. The following will appear:

9. Click on and the following will be displayed:

10. Enter in your details and select the relevant content that you may

require. For this example our Wiki Name will be: educational

resource for lecturers. Our Industry will be Higher Education. We

will tick the box to confirm Educational Use and choose Editable

website and click on Create.

11. The following will be displayed:

click on .

12. This will provide you with details of navigation throughout setting

up your

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Wiki

13. Click on .

14. The following will appear:

15. Click on

16. You can now start typing and insert you content that is relevant to

your course, for now click on to continue with your tour.

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17. Wiki keeps all of your content so that there is no chance of loosing

it. Click on

18. Well done:

19. Click on .

20. Now you need to do the following Customize your logo:

21. Click on .

22. We will add our infographic at a later stage as our logo.

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23. The following will appear:

24. We now need to use our setting to create the:

25. Click on

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26. Click on new Image and Choose and image as your logo

27. Select the image and click on .

28. Click on .

29. Your logo has been saved

click on

30. For now I will click on Default Logo:

Wiki will now allow you to:

and click on .

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31. The following will appear:

32. Click on .

33. People setting will appear, click on Permissions:

34. The following will be displayed and you need to select your setting

carefully:

35. For our Wiki, Private only members of this Wiki can view and edit

pages and click on .

36. Please note that you can come back and change these permissions

as often as you like

click on .

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37. Finally set your Theme, click on :

38. The following will appear, click on :

39. Now you need to choose your Themes and Colours click on

40. Choose your own Theme from the

following:

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41. For this exercise we are going to choose Notebook

now you need to Apply your theme, click on

42. Success:

43. Click on .

44. Finally to view the changes click on :

45. Well done: click on

.

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46. The following will be

displayed:

47. Here are your tools for

navigation:

.

48. How to sign out of your Wiki, click on in the top right hand

corner.

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How to Invite Members/Students to your Wikispace:

1. Click on the plus symbol of and the following will appear:

enter in the student email

addresses that you want to invite. Make sure to leave a comma and a

space in between each email address to your Wikispace and click on

.

2. It will then give you the following notification:

3. The student’s will then receive the following to their email account where

they will be asked to click on the link to join the wiki:

4. They will have to create a username and password.

Click on

the link: