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Using wiki as a word document????
I am new to wikis. How do I create a page where my students can collaboratively work on a document from individual computers?
I’m confused
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Inappropriate?Your students should, in general, be able to edit any page in your wiki. A good start would be to give your students the password, have them log in, and take turns editing the FrontPage, each person adding their name to the page. Once you have the hang of editing a page, you can create a new page (by clicking the "New page' button) for specific purposes.
PBwiki cannot create documents for Microsoft Word. Relatively simple Word documents may be cut and pasted into the Point-and-Click (WYSIWYG) editor, but the page cannot be saved or downloaded as Word.
Let me know if this answers any of your questions.
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Inappropriate?Hey Cathy,
You can use a wiki just like a word document - type and save. The next person on that page will see your changes and add more information - or correct your mistakes.
You may want to check our educator portal (educators.pbwiki.com) to see how other teachers have set up their wiki.
Some teachers like to have individual student pages to get everyone on the wiki. and start them off slowly. Others create subject pages and ask students to add/answer a question about that subject.
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Inappropriate?not word but PDF.
I guess you could call this a subject in a subject but here we go. I have come across a need to get my companies pages into a word document as well. Now I know there is no direct "export to word" (although I think this would be a good enhancement, ...anyways) however there is a "save page as PDF" at least in 1.0. Now I clicked this little button for the first time today and boy was I suprised.
Now before I get to deep in this let me just state that my companies wiki is highly modified using css and custom templates and javascript for sidebar navigation and unfortanatly I can't give you all insight because its private and well that would just get me in a heap of trouble. But here we go.
When the page opens in the PDF view on my web-browser everything was mangled, tangled, and overlapping. There were actually boxes with text in them (visible boxes) and then text was spilling out of them. Text was all over the place. Now I will openly admit to not having a lot of exposure to PDFs or converting html to the pdf format but I am sure that things shouldn't have ended up like that. So Guy, Krissy any suggestions?
I’m bummed
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I got nothin'. PDF export has *never* worked for anything but the simplest documents (complaints in the old forums go back to the day they released that feature), and I don't see that changing anytime soon (they don't even *have* PDF export in V2.0 yet). That's why I never mention it unless someone asks specifically about it. -
Why is this not surprising? Now whomever reads this don't get me wrong. I love PBwiki, as a user, I just don't understand why you would keep features around that don't seem to work. Oh well C'est la vie.
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Well, it *does* work, for simple pages, which is what most people have. PBwiki limits their concerns to the "middle of the bell curve", which works for most of the people, most of the time. It's the outliers that annoy them.
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