Manage+a+Wiki

= = = = =Manage a Wiki=
 * Wiki Intro | Educational Examples | Getting Started | Manage a Wiki | Basic Editing | Images & Files | Advanced Editing | Student Accounts | Wiki Resources **

toc Under the section titled Manage Wiki, you have the ability to make a variety of changes and customizations. Below is information for some of the more common management features.

Look and Feel
Here you can adjust the way your wiki looks. Unlike more technical websites, you do not have the ability to customize every aspect, rather you build on an existing template and customize it.


 * Choosing a Theme or Colors**

You can adjust the background color, menu color, text color and link color.
 * 1.** Under the Settings heading, choose Look and Feel
 * 2.** You have the option to choose a Theme or Colors.
 * Choose a Theme and click Apply
 * Click Look and Feel in the upper right hand corner to customize the Colors.

//*A note about colors - Choose colors that have enough contrast so visitors can easily see your navigation and read your information.//


 * __Play Time__**

Practice choosing and customizing a theme.

Permissions & Members
In the section title People, you have the ability to manage wiki permissions and members. There are 4 sections to People: Members, Permissions, Invite and User Creator.

The Members section lets you see who is a member of your wiki, remove members or make members an organizer, see pending member requests, and send an invite to the wiki.

The Permissions section allows you to change the wiki from public to protected or private.

The Invite section allows you to send an email message inviting people to become members of your wiki. This can be useful for providing parents with access to the wiki.

The User Creator is a feature for K-12 wikis. It allows teachers to create up to 100 Wikispaces accounts for their students with no emails required. Using a naming convention is helpful when creating student accounts. (i.e. EW6thFirstInitialLastName - EW6thBAllen) This reduces the possibility that a username is already taken.

//Note: Middle school classes using the User Creator can coordinate the creation across the grade to eliminate students having more than one Wikispaces account.//

Page Security
A common concern for teachers using a wiki as a class website is security since members can edit any page. This is easily fixed by locking pages you do not want students to edit.


 * Locking a page**

1. Under the Content section, choose Pages. 2. Scroll to the page you want to lock and click the arrow next to Actions. You will see the options below.

3. Choose lock from the list. You will see a Lock symbol on any page that you are not able to edit.