1. Navigate to your wiki.
2. Select Manage Wiki
3. Under People, select User Creator.
4. Choose the wiki you would like to add the users to.
5. Enter your list of users at text, or upload an excel or .csv file with usernames and passwords. Email addresses are not required to create accounts. Each account name must be unique. Passwords must be at least 6 characters long. If you do not list passwords, wikispaces will randomly assign them.
To enter the users in text format, type the following in a Microsoft Word document: username, password (cfreewcms, 001234)
To enter the users in an excel spreadsheet, type the username in column A and the password in column B.
Step 2 will ask you to define each column.
6. Confirm and submit. Once the import is complete, your students should be able to login to wikispaces and go to the class wiki.
How do I set my wiki to Private?
If you want to make it so that only members of your wiki — you and your students — can see the work that is posted to your wiki, you want to set your wiki to Private. If you want your wiki to be visible to the public, so that your students' family and friends can see their work, but still keep anyone but wiki members from editing pages, you need to set your wiki to Protected. You can make either change on your Permissions page:
Navigate to your wiki.
Select Manage Wiki.
Under People, select Permissions.
Select Public, Protected, or Private and hit Update.
How can I keep students from editing my page?
Just set the permissions for the page to Locked and only you (and other organizers of the wiki) will be able to edit it:
Navigate to your wiki.
Select Manage Wiki.
Check the pages that you don’t want students to edit.
Hit the Lock button.
If you ever want to open that page up to student edits, it’s just as easy to unlock the page:
Navigate to your wiki.
Select Manage Wiki.
Check the pages that you want to unlock.
Hit the Unlock button.
How do I change the look of my wiki?
Change your theme:
Navigate to your wiki.
Select Manage Wiki.
Under Settings, select Look and Feel.
Select Themes and Colors.
Choose one of our premade themes and color palettes, or hit Preview and Customize to set your own custom colors.
When you're happy with your selections, hit Apply.
My students are editing the same page at the same time and some changes are lost. Do you have any advice?
If two people edit the same page at the same time, we will keep track of both sets of changes. Your students will be notified if someone else is editing the page at the same time. If there are no conflicts in the students' changes, both sets of edits will be seamlessly merged into the page. If the changes do conflict, the following will happen:
When the first user saves his changes, the second user will receive a notification of this and will be able to view the changes.
The second user can view the changes to remove the conflict if she chooses.
If there is still a conflict when the second user saves the page, she will be notified that she is about to overwrite the first user's changes. She will have the option to continue or cancel.
If either student's edits are incorrectly overwritten, they can find their work or revert to an earlier version of the page on the History tab. If you still have problems, email us at help@wikispaces.com
Create Accounts for Students
1. Navigate to your wiki.2. Select Manage Wiki
3. Under People, select User Creator.
4. Choose the wiki you would like to add the users to.
5. Enter your list of users at text, or upload an excel or .csv file with usernames and passwords. Email addresses are not required to create accounts. Each account name must be unique. Passwords must be at least 6 characters long. If you do not list passwords, wikispaces will randomly assign them.
To enter the users in text format, type the following in a Microsoft Word document: username, password (cfreewcms, 001234)
To enter the users in an excel spreadsheet, type the username in column A and the password in column B.
Step 2 will ask you to define each column.
6. Confirm and submit. Once the import is complete, your students should be able to login to wikispaces and go to the class wiki.
How do I set my wiki to Private?
If you want to make it so that only members of your wiki — you and your students — can see the work that is posted to your wiki, you want to set your wiki to Private. If you want your wiki to be visible to the public, so that your students' family and friends can see their work, but still keep anyone but wiki members from editing pages, you need to set your wiki to Protected. You can make either change on your Permissions page:How can I keep students from editing my page?
Just set the permissions for the page to Locked and only you (and other organizers of the wiki) will be able to edit it:If you ever want to open that page up to student edits, it’s just as easy to unlock the page:
How do I change the look of my wiki?
Change your theme:My students are editing the same page at the same time and some changes are lost. Do you have any advice?
If two people edit the same page at the same time, we will keep track of both sets of changes. Your students will be notified if someone else is editing the page at the same time. If there are no conflicts in the students' changes, both sets of edits will be seamlessly merged into the page. If the changes do conflict, the following will happen:If either student's edits are incorrectly overwritten, they can find their work or revert to an earlier version of the page on the History tab. If you still have problems, email us at help@wikispaces.com