Koer wiki help

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=Help on editing KOER=

Entering Text
Just type in text or copy paste from your existing text file (.doc or .odt) into the wiki page

Headings
To create a heading, simply put the "=" sign before and after the heading. Single "=" stands for HEADING 1,  "==" for HEADING 2 (SUB HEADING TO for HEADING 1) and so on. Create as many headings and sub headings as you want

External Web link
When you want to link a page from outside the KOER website, (external link) Syntax is as follows: Open Square Bracket,followed by the URL/web page address,followed by a space and then the description of the link.

eg Wikipedia Page for Surds will read as Wikipedia Page for Surds http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nth_root - is the web link Wikipedia Page for Surds - name of the link

Internal Web link
When you want to link a page from within the KOER website (internal link) Syntax is as follows open DOUBLE Square Bracket,followed by the KOER page name (without http etc) ,followed by pipe and then the description of the link eg KOER Surds page will read as KOER Surds page Surds is the name of the KOER page - http://karnatakaeducation.org.in/KOER/en/index.php/Surds KOER Surds page is the name of the link

Advanced Editing
In KOER, we upload text and mind maps, other resources are uploaded elsewhere and then linked/embedded on the koer using widgets-
 * 1) Geogebra files - Geogebratube
 * 2) Photos - slide show in Google Picassa
 * 3) Presentations - slide show in Slideshare
 * 4) Videos - Youtube or Vimeo
 * 5) Podcasts (audio files) - Yourlisten

Inserting image
You can insert images in KOER. First open the web page with the image (picture) Right click on the image and select 'copy image URL' Then go to your KOER page

Syntax is:

Image:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/59/Roots_chart.png/220px-Roots_chart.png

will be seen as

Image:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/59/Roots_chart.png/220px-Roots_chart.png

(do paste of your image from clipboard after Image:)

Resizing the image after inserting
to add

Inserting Table
You can insert Table in KOER. First open the web page.

Syntax in KOER is:

Will be seen as

Inserting image slide show
You can embed a Picassa (Google photos) image slide show in KOER Using your gmail id, create a photo album on picassa (http://picasaweb.google.com). To learn how to upload photos on picasa, click here

example

You can also insert a single image from picassa to the wiki. Click on the image on picassa, copy paste the url of the photo to wiki.

Inserting video
Youtube video can be embedded in KOER Video on Surds from Youtube

Syntax is:

will be seen as

If you want to make the video appear as thumbnail, then syntax is:

Inserting mindmap
Syntax is: Flash

Inserting slides

 * 1) You can insert slides from a ODP, PDF, PPT files using slideshare.
 * 2) Upload your file on http://slideshare.net
 * 3) Click on share file and select the 'embed code'
 * 4) From the embed code,pick out a number string

Syntax in KOER is:

where 29378973 is the number string.

Math Formula
http://karnatakaeducation.org.in/KOER/en/index.php/Math_Formula_on_Wiki

Steps in uploading a Geogebra file

 * 1) Create a Geogebratube ID; you must login to upload material
 * 2) On the toolbar, click on Upload Material
 * 3) Choose File (browse for files on your computer) and then click upload
 * 4) It will display a progress bar for upload
 * 5) Provide explanations as necessary for students
 * 6) You should add any questions you want to ask in worksheet for students
 * 7) Click on “Continue Uploading”
 * 8) It will display a progress bar for upload
 * 9) Enter Title of file
 * 10) Enter other information for other teachers
 * 11) Choose language, target Age
 * 12) Definitely add tags to help search for file better - eg., chord, tangent, multiplication, etc
 * 13) You can determine whether the file should be publicly available
 * 14) Save the file

Steps in embedding a Geogebra file in KOER

 * 1) Search for file on Geogebratube
 * 2) Click Embed
 * 3) Choose Mediawiki (for which code you should copy)
 * 4) Select/ change Applet size
 * 5) Copy to clipboard - this will copy the whole code from the page
 * 6) Paste into KOER page under the section Geogebra Applets
 * 7) Save KOER page

=Creating pages and adding template=

New page
To create a new page, type the following syntax in the address bar: http://karnatakaeducation.org.in/KOER/en/index.php/New_topic_to_be_created This will create a new topic page.

New activity
To add an activity to the topic, a new page must be created for each activity. The convention for naming pages is as below.

While creating activity page, give page name as topic name_concept name_activity1 eg. Permutations_And_Combinations_permutations_activity1 ಹೊಸದಾಗಿ ಚಟುವಟಿಕೆ ಪುಟವನ್ನು ಸೃಷ್ಠಿಸುವಾಗ, ಪುಟದ ಹೆಸರು_ಬೋಧನಾಂಶದ ಹೆಸರು_ಚಟುವಟಕೆ ಸಂಖ್ಯೆ ಉದಾ:ಕ್ರಮಯೋಜನೆ_ಮತ್ತು_ವಿಕಲ್ಪಗಳು_ಕ್ರಮಯೋಜನೆ_ಚಟುವಟಿಕೆ1

Follow these steps On your topic page, next to the 'Activity 1', please type double open rectangular bracket "", followed by page name, followed by space, followed by concept name, followed by space, followed by 'activity1', followed by double close rectangular bracket "" eg, if page name is microorganisms and concept name is introduction, then to create the page for the first activity of this concept, please type microorganisms introduction activity1

To add template:
Once a page has been created, the content template must be added. The syntax is as follows:

Once an activity page has been created, the activity template must be added to each page.

The syntax is as follows:

Cross referring English and Kannada KOER
On top of every English KOER Page give the link to its corresponding / equivalent Kannada KOER page For example on top of http://www.karnatakaeducation.org.in/KOER/en/index.php/Economy_And_Government give ಕನ್ನಡದಲ್ಲಿ ನೋಡಿ

On top of every Kannada KOER Page give the link to its corresponding / equivalent English KOER page For example on top of http://karnatakaeducation.org.in/KOER/index.php/ಅರ್ಥವ್ಯವಸ್ಥೆ_ಮತ್ತು_ಸರ್ಕಾರ give See in English

What changes have been made on any wiki page - and who has made them
At the bottom of each wiki page, the link 'history' is provided. Clicking this will give us all the changes made on that page, when it was made and who made it. Any changes made by mistake can be 'rolled back' or deleted.

To get the changes made on the entire KOER wiki, click on 'Recent changes' on the left frame

User list
To get a list of all the wiki editors, we can visit

=Forgot password / cannot login=
 * 1) Check if your user id is created, visit Special:ListUsers pages in the wiki and see if your id is there
 * 2) if user id not created, then write KOER@KarnatakaEducation.org.in and ask for a wiki id. Note that normally wiki id will be given in a training workshop
 * 3) If user id exists, but you have forgotten your password, then Click on Log in button
 * 4) Click on ' Forgotten your login details? ' and ENTER your WIKI ID
 * 5) WIKI will send a mail to the 'Connected email id', provided during the creation of the login-id
 * 6) Open your email. Click on the weblink in your email and you will connect to DIET WIKI
 * 7) Click on your wiki link
 * 8) Enter your wiki id and your NEW password to login. (keep this NEW PASSWORD CAREFULLY and do not lose it)
 * 9) You will see your id on the top right part of the screen

=Steps to use Wiki to create a web-site=
 * 1) Identify the audience for the site - who do you want should see the site
 * 2) Collate the information you want to share through the site
 * 3) Information about the institution - plans, programmes, staff
 * 4) Detailed information about programmes - objectives, scope, approach, activities, status, challenges/risks, outcomes
 * 5) Try and collate information in different formats
 * 6) Text information, images/photos/pictures, videos, animations, existing web links
 * 7) Make a 'design' for your site - home page contents, other pages. This is similar to designing a home - based on needs, how many rooms and for what purpose. Good news is that you can always add pages to your wiki whenever you want, and add/modify/remove content, which is not so easily possible with a house!!
 * 8) Home page should be simple and clear. Avoid jazzy styles.
 * 9) No information should be too lengthy on home page. Use additional pages for providing details.
 * 10) Cluster/categorize information and provide it in pages based on such categories/clusters.
 * 11) Any page address (web link) should be provided either on the site home page, or on another page, based on relevance. This can help user to reach any page from the home page. Of course, user can reach a page just through the web address as well.