Help on editing KOER

Basic editing

Entering Text

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

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 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nth_root 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 [[Surds | 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-

Geogebra files - Geogebratube
Photos - slide show in Google Picassa
Presentations - slide show in Slideshare
Videos - Youtube or Vimeo
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:

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

Inserting Table

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

Syntax in KOER is:
{|class="wikitable"
|-
|
|
|}

Will be seen as

Prophase 1

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)

{{#widget:Picassa |user=<put your gmail id which with you have created the album> |album=<write your picassa album id here> |width=300 |height=200 |captions=1 |autoplay=1 |interval=5 }}

example

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: {{#ev:youtube| o3gN9wI_w64| 150| left}}

Inserting mindmap

Syntax is: <mm>[[NAME OF THE MINDMAPFILE.mm|Flash]]</mm>

Inserting slides

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

Syntax in KOER is:

{{#widget:Iframe |url=http://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/embed_code/29378973 |width=450 |height=360 |border=1 }}

where 29378973 is the number string.

Inserting audio podcast

Math Formula

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

Uploading a Geogebra file on Geogebratube and embedding in KOER

Steps in uploading a Geogebra file

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

Steps in embedding a Geogebra file in KOER

Search for file on Geogebratube
Click Embed
Choose Mediawiki (for which code you should copy)
Select/ change Applet size
Copy to clipboard - this will copy the whole code from the page
Paste into KOER page under the section Geogebra Applets
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:
{{subst:Math-Content}}
{{subst:Science-Content}}
{{subst:SS-Content}}

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

The syntax is as follows:
{{subst:Math-Activity}}
{{subst:Science-Activity}}
{{subst:SS-Activity}}

Useful reports from wiki

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

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