TOER wiki help

Help on editing TOER

To edit a page using the visual editor, click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the page.It can take a few seconds for the page to open for editing, and longer if the page is very long.

Clicking on the "Edit source" tab will open the classic wikitext source editor.

You can also open the visual editor by clicking on the "edit" link on each section.

Basic editing

Entering Text

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

Headings

Headings pull-down menu: allows you to change how the paragraph is formatted. To change the style of a paragraph, put your cursor in the paragraph and select an item in this menu (you don't have to highlight any text). Section titles are formatted "Heading", and subsections are "Heading 2", "Heading 3", and so on. The normal format for text is "Paragraph".

External Web link

When you want to link a page from outside the TOER website, (external link)

Click on the "Link" icon (links in a chain) in the toolbar.

If you select (highlight) text and then press the "Link" button, that text will be used in creating the link. For a link that involves just one word, you can either select that word or just put the cursor within that word.

Once you have entered or selected the link, you complete the linking process by pressing ↵ Enter or by pressing the "Done" button. Your link will immediately appear on the page, but as with other changes to the page, it will not be saved until you save the entire page.

Internal Web link

When you want to link a page from within the TOER website (internal link). Select the word which you are going to give another TROER page link then click on the "Link" icon(Links in a chain) in the tool bar, and enter the page name (within TROER page). It will show you the list of the pages are already in the TROER. Select the link which you want to insert here and press "Done".

Inserting image

To add a new image (or another type of media file) to the page, click the "Media" icon (a picture of mountains) in the "Insert" menu. The image will be added wherever your cursor is.
You will get two options, "search" and "upload".

Search images within the TROER

1. If you are already uploaded your image in TROER website, just search the image file name which you uploaded.
2. It will give you the list of files, click on the image which you want to insert in your page. Click on the "use this image" option.
3. In the next screen, you can do the basic changes like thumbline, image size and alignment, finally click on the "Insert".

Upload your image to TROER

If you want to insert your image into the page,

1. Again click on the "Insert" >> "media" >> "upload" >> "Select a file".
2. Now, you have to browse and select the image file from your local drive, Click on the "Open".
3. In the next screen, you can do the basic changes like thumbline, image size and alignment, finally click on the "Insert".

Advanced Editing

In TOER, we upload text and mind maps, other resources are uploaded elsewhere and then linked/embedded on the TOER 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
6. Gallery - adding photos as a gallery which is used for showing two or more images.

Inserting Table

You can insert Table in TOER by using this below syntax

1. Basic table with Information Syntax in TOER is:

{| class="wikitable" border="1"
|-
! header 1
! header 2
! header 3
|-
| row 1, cell 1
| row 1, cell 2
| row 1, cell 3
|-
| row 2, cell 1
| row 2, cell 2
| row 2, cell 3
|}

Will be seen as

header 1	header 2	header 3
row 1, cell 1	row 1, cell 2	row 1, cell 3
row 2, cell 1	row 2, cell 2	row 2, cell 3

2. Inserting image within the table And If you want to insert image within the table see the below syntax

{|class="wikitable"
|-
|Prophase 1
|[[File:Prophase 1.gif|400px]]
|}

Will be seen as

Prophase 1

3. Inserting header for each table.

Syntax :-

{| class="wikitable" border="1"
|+ '''Table Heading'''
! header 1
! header 2
! header 3
|-
| row 1, cell 1
| row 1, cell 2
| row 1, cell 3
|-
| row 2, cell 1
| row 2, cell 2
| row 2, cell 3
|}

Will be see like :

Table Heading

header 1	header 2	header 3
row 1, cell 1	row 1, cell 2	row 1, cell 3
row 2, cell 1	row 2, cell 2	row 2, cell 3

If you want to try different format tabling like merge table and for change width/hight of the table, go through table wiki help.

Inserting image slide show

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

{{#widget:Picasa |user=<put your gmail id which with you have created the album itfc.education@gmail.com> |album=<write your picasa album id here> |width=300 |height=200 |captions=1 |autoplay=1 |interval=5 }}

example

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

Please note that this depends on adobe flash and may not work on all modern web browsers.

Inserting video

Youtube video can be embedded in TOER Video on Surds from Youtube

Syntax is:

{{#widget:YouTube|id=iTt3TVjsjuY}}

will be seen as

If you want to make the video appear as thumbnail, then syntax is: {{#ev:youtube| o3gN9wI_w64| 150| left}}

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

Inserting mindmap

1. Click on Upload a new file at left side or click here
2. Click on Browse and select you mindmap file to upload.
3. Modify file name and Add description if needed.
4. Click on upload file to finish the upload.

Now follow this below steps to embed the uploaded mm file into your TOER page Syntax is: [[File:Student_ICT_curriculum.mm]] and the file will be like below

File:Student ICT curriculum.mm

Inserting slides

1. You can insert slides from a ODP, PDF, PPT files using slideshare.
2. Create an id for yourself on http://slideshare.net (this is very easy, like creating any id for any web service)
3. Upload your file on http://slideshare.net
4. Click on share file and select the 'embed code'
5. From the embed code,pick out a number string

Syntax in TOER is:

slideshare, please use wordpress 8 digit code as in this e.g. - {{#widget:Iframe |url=http://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/embed_code/48241562 |width=450 |height=360 |border=1 }}

instead of {{#widget:Iframe |url=http://slideshare.net/slideshow/embed_code/MDPAyvmMvPtOgZ" |width=450 |height=360 |border=1 }}

{{#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

1. It is easier to create audio resources than video resources. Audio resources are very useful for language learning. They are a very useful complement to the usual print resources. While print resources support the 'reading/writing' skills, audio resources can support the 'listening/speaking' skills.
2. You can record an audio resource on your smart phone or on your computer.
3. You can edit the audio resource using a public software like audacity. Editing can reduce/remove unwanted sounds, add background music etc.
4. The final audio clip can be uploaded on http://yourlisten.com and the link provided on TOER

Inserting Gallery

When more two or more images needs to shown in a wikipage, it is recommended to use Gallery feature in a wiki. This can be using <gallery> tag in the source editor. Please follow below steps to do that -

1. Click on Edit source of the page or section where the gallery needs to be inserted.
2. Insert the Filenames the images you want withing the <gallery> as shown below:

<gallery mode=packed heights=200px>
File:Detroit Publishing Co. - A Yeoman of the Guard (N.B. actually a Yeoman Warder), full restoration.jpg|A Yeoman Warder, from a Victorian-era [[photochrom]]
File:Official_program_-_Woman_suffrage_procession_March_3,_1913_-_crop.jpg|The Official program of the 1913 Woman Suffrage Procession held in Washington, D.C.
File:Thurston, the famous magician - East Indian Rope Trick.jpg|[[Howard Thurston]] performing the [[Indian rope trick]]
File:Joseph Ferdinand Keppler - The Pirate Publisher - Puck Magazine - Restoration by Adam Cuerden.jpg|"The Pirate Publisher", a satire of copyright infringement from the magazine [[Puck (magazine)|Puck]].
</gallery>

Above syntax will return the gallery as shown below:

• 

  A Yeoman Warder, from a Victorian-era photochrom

• 

  The Official program of the 1913 Woman Suffrage Procession held in Washington, D.C.

• 

  Howard Thurston performing the Indian rope trick

• 

  "The Pirate Publisher", a satire of copyright infringement from the magazine Puck (magazine).

To left-align the captions, specify the CSS declaration text-align:left in the style= attribute:

<gallery mode=packed heights=150px style="text-align:left">
File:Detroit Publishing Co. - A Yeoman of the Guard (N.B. actually a Yeoman Warder), full restoration.jpg|A Yeoman Warder, from a Victorian-era photochrom
File:Official_program_-_Woman_suffrage_procession_March_3,_1913_-_crop.jpg|The Official program of the 1913 Woman Suffrage Procession held in Washington, D.C.
File:Joseph Ferdinand Keppler - The Pirate Publisher - Puck Magazine - Restoration by Adam Cuerden.jpg|"The Pirate Publisher", a satire of copyright infringement from the magazine Puck (magazine).
</gallery>

gives:

• 

  A Yeoman Warder, from a Victorian-era photochrom

• 

  The Official program of the 1913 Woman Suffrage Procession held in Washington, D.C.

• 

  "The Pirate Publisher", a satire of copyright infringement from the magazine Puck (magazine).

Captions for the gallery can also be added with caption inside the <gallery> tag:

<gallery caption="Sample gallery" widths="180px" heights="120px" >
File:Example.png
File:Example.png|Captioned
File:Example.png|Captioned with alt text|alt=The Wikipedia logo
File:Example.png|[[TOER wiki help|Links]] can be put in captions.
File:Example.png|Full MediaWiki <br/>syntax may now be used...
</gallery>

Which produces:

• Sample gallery
• 

  Captioned

• 

  Captioned with alt text

• 

  Links can be put in captions.

• 

  Full MediaWiki
  syntax may now be used...

Complete reference for all the available modes and options can be seen here - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Gallery_tag

Working with Images

This is single image with wrapping

For all explore an application pages, please follow below methods when you insert image(s) to the pages depending on different cases as described below.

1. Single image with wrapping: When the image is very small and there is enough text around it you can insert image as thumbnail to the left side of the page with this syntax.[[File:Save Window.png|thumb]]
2. Single image with no wrap: When the image width is too wide like this one, entire page width can be occupied and this syntax can do it: [[File:LO Writer 4 Menu Bar.png|1000px]]
3. Single image with border less table: When the image needs to carry big description along with it, then a border less table can be used to show it with this syntax.

Most of the formatting options available in LibreOffice Writer are available in Calc also. Making the text bold, italicised, increasing/reducing font size, font color etc are all available. Data can also be formatted based on its nature – numeric information can be assigned “,” separators.

4. Two or more images: For two or more images, Gallery can be used to with appropriate heights in packed mode and align left with text-align:left in the style= attribute as shown in above Inserting Gallery section. Write the description of the images outside the gallery.

Math Formula

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

Uploading a Geogebra file on Geogebratube and embedding in TOER

Steps in embdedding your own Geogebra file in TOER through Mediawiki export

1. Open the ggb file in Geogebra
2. Click on File -> Export As -> Dynamic Worksheet as webpage.
3. Select Advanced and from drop down menu, select Clipboard: Mediawiki
4. This will make the code required for embedding on wiki to be copied and paste the same on the wiki page where you need it to get it as shown below:

Steps in embedding a Geogebra file in TOER

1. Open the ggb file in Geogebra
2. Click on File -> Export As -> Dynamic Worksheet as webpage.
3. Provide Title, Text below and above the constructions and then Click on upload.
4. Get the URL after the upload and use it in iframe widget as shown below:

{{#widget:Iframe |url=https://www.geogebra.org/material/iframe/id/hestdNWy/width/1355/height/636/border/888888 |width=600 |height=400 |border=1 }}

Steps in uploading a Geogebra file to Geogebra tube

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

Creating pages and adding template

New page

To create a new page, Goto to browser address bar and after "http://teacher-network.in/OER/index.php/" type your new page name and press Enter. After this if the page is not exist in this website, it will show you like Create the page "new page name" on this wiki!.

Now click on your new page name link(will be in red color), and start editing your page and click on the save page button.

To add template in your page:

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 TOER 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 TOER@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
   1. Information about the institution - plans, programmes, staff
   2. Detailed information about programmes - objectives, scope, approach, activities, status, challenges/risks, outcomes
3. Try and collate information in different formats
   1. Text information, images/photos/pictures, videos, animations, existing web links
4. 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!!
   1. Home page should be simple and clear. Avoid jazzy styles.
   2. No information should be too lengthy on home page. Use additional pages for providing details.
   3. Cluster/categorize information and provide it in pages based on such categories/clusters.
   4. 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.

How to edit TOER wiki sidebar

Click here to edit our TOER wiki sidebar . After you click on this just follow the normal wiki editing formating for adding menu and sub menu etc.

How to create print version and get pdf of books on wiki

We have Student Textbook and Teacher Hand Book collaboratively done on this wiki and we have prepared Print versions and pdf copies of the same. Below are the steps on how to do this on any wiki. Please note this needs to be done only once and Print versions are automatically updated from the book. Pdf can be generated from the left side Download as PDF link under Print/export.

Generally, it is a good solution to learn from examples. See ICT teacher handbook/Print version and read these quick guidelines.

Preparing a book

No navigational templates used in a book should be printed. Check this using the "Print preview" function of your browser. To prevent a block of text from being printed, cover it with <div class="noprint"> ... </div>. Use class="notice" or class="notice metadata" for cleanup templates like {{stub}}, {{cleanup}}; or <noinclude> ... </noinclude>. Similarly, if you want some content to be displayed only in the print version but not at normal reading, use <includeonly> ... </includeonly>.

Creating separate page for print version

In brief:

1. Create the page Book/Print version (for a book called Book) and link to it from the TOC
2. Insert the {{print version notice|Book|Book/Print_version}} template to the top of the book's Print version page.
3. Insert every chapter like a template, preceded by the chapter's title.

   = Chapter name =

   {{:Book/Chapter name}}

Do not cut-and-paste any text from a book to its print version.

Linking from the book

Make a visible link to the print version from the book's cover or table of contents. You can simply insert the {{print version}} template in the page Book if the page of the printed version is Book/Print version to create a box like the one shown.