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| - | ===Set up your course template===
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| - | Once you've registered for an OWW account, start by making your course banner. Your course banner will be used on every course page to help identify it as belonging to your course and to enable students to navigate through the course wiki pages.
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| - | #First, go to [[Template:OWW.101|the OWW.101 template page]] (open this in a new browser window if you want to keep reading this text).
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| - | #Click [[Image:EditButton.jpg]] and copy all the wiki markup on that page.
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| - | #In the search box on the lefthand side navigation bar, type <code>Template:<Your course number></code> (be sure and replace <code><Your course number></code> with your course's number like <code>20.109</code> or <code>MCB100</code>. [[Image:Searchbox.png|thumb|150px]]
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| - | #You should see a page come up with a message saying '''"There is no page titled "Template:<Your course number>".''' You can create this page." If you don't see this message then that means a page with that name already exists. You'll need to choose a different course name. [[Image:NoPage.png|thumb|450px|left]] <br style="clear:both" />
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| - | #Click on the create this page link.
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| - | #Paste the code from the OWW.101 template onto this page.
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| - | #Replace every instance of <code>OWW.101</code> with your course number.
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| - | #Finally, check your work by clicking the [[Image:ShowPreviewButton.jpg]] button.
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| - | #Save the changes by clicking [[Image:SavePageButton.jpg]] ... and you're off.
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| - | Next you'll probably want to replace the default course image with your own.
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| - | #Click on upload file link on the left side of the screen (under toolbox).
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| - | #Follow the directions from there to upload the file. In general it is best if your course image is wider than it is tall and if it is in PNG format.
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| - | #After the picture has been uploaded, you will be taken to the Image page for your course image.
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| - | #Copy the page title (i.e. '''Image:<What you named your picture>.png''').
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| - | #Return to your course template. You can do this quickly by typing <code>Template:<Your course number></code> in the search box on the left.
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| - | #Click [[Image:EditButton.jpg]] and replace <code>Image:OWW101logo.png</code> with <code>Image:<What you named your picture>.png</code>
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| - | #Check your work by clicking the [[Image:ShowPreviewButton.jpg]] button.
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| - | #Save the changes by clicking [[Image:SavePageButton.jpg]].
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| - | ===Set up your course homepage===
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| - | #First, go to [[OWW.101|the OWW.101 course homepage]] (again, open this in a new browser window if you want to keep reading this text).
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| - | #Click [[Image:EditButton.jpg]] and copy all the wiki markup on that page.
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| - | #[[Image:Searchbox.png|thumb|150px]] In the search box on the lefthand side navigation bar, type <code><Your course number></code> (be sure and replace <code><Your course number></code> with your course's number like <code>20.109</code> or <code>MCB100</code>.
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| - | #You should see a page come up with a message saying '''"There is no page titled "<Your course number>".''' You can create this page." If you don't see this message then that means a page with that name already exists. You'll need to choose a different course name (and [[Help:Renaming pages|rename your course template]]).
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| - | #Click on the create this page link.
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| - | #Paste the code from the OWW.101 course homepage onto this page.
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| - | #Replace every instance of <code><nowiki>{{Template:OWW.101}}</nowiki></code> with <code><nowiki>{{Template:<Your course number>}}</nowiki></code>. This line is responsible for including the course banner on the page.
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| - | #Check your work by clicking the [[Image:ShowPreviewButton.jpg]] button.
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| - | #Save the changes by clicking [[Image:SavePageButton.jpg]].
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| - | Next you can customize the rest of the content on your course's homepage.
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| - | #Click [[Image:EditButton.jpg]] on your course's homepage.
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| - | #Between the line that starts <code><nowiki><div ...></nowiki></code> and the line <code><nowiki></div></nowiki></code>, feel free to put any information you want ... like a course description, an announcements section or anything else that might be helpful there.
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| - | ===Set up your people page===
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| - | Every new wiki page that you create for your course should be named <code><Your course number>:Name of the page</code>.
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| - | So much in the same way you created your course homepage, you can copy the OWW.101 sample course's people page ([[OWW.101:People]]) to a new page titled <code><Your course number>:People</code> to list all the folks involved in the course.
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| - | ===Set up your course schedule===
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| - | ==Other common tasks==
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| - | ===How do I upload my lecture slides?===
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| - | PDFs, word docs, powerpoint files or keynote files can all be uploaded to OpenWetWare.
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| - | #Click on upload file link on the left side of the screen (under toolbox).
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| - | #Follow the directions from there to upload the file.
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| - | #OpenWetWare doesn't explicitly support PDF, powerpoint or keynote filetypes. Therefore these files are treated as images and an image page is generated upon upload. To include a link directly to the PDF from your course page, you'll have to click on the filename from the image page and copy the corresponding URL from your browser.
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| - | For instance, here is a link to the image page of a PDF that has been uploaded to OpenWetWare: [[Image:Msb4100025.pdf]]
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| - | Here is a link to the corresponding PDF file itself: http://openwetware.org/images/e/ef/Msb4100025.pdf
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| - | ===Oh no ... someone made an incorrect edit on one of my course pages. How do I undo it?===
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| - | Occasionally, edits to pages in OpenWetWare are made which are incorrect or should not have been done. Fortunately, undoing edits is simple in a wiki. Here are some simple instructions on how to undo edits (also called reverting to a previous version of the page).
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| - | #Go to the page whose edit you would like to undo.
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| - | #Click on the [[Image:Historytab.png]] tab at the top of the page.
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| - | #You'll now be viewing the revision history of the page.
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| - | #Click the circle next to the version of the page that you wish to revert back to.
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| - | #Click the [[Image:Compareselectedversionsbutton.png]] button.
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| - | #You will see the difference between the current version and the selected older version.
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| - | #Click the [[Image:Rollbacklink.png]] link on the current version column to rollback to the older version.
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| - | ===How do I format a picture?===
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| - | Wikipedia has various examples for [[Wikipedia:Wikipedia:Picture_tutorial|formatting pictures]].
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| - | ===How do I edit a table?===
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| - | Again, Wikipedia has a pretty thorough page on [[MetaWikiPedia:Table|editing tables]].
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This is a placeholder page for instructions and suggestions for hosting a course on OpenWetWare.
A common concern among many OpenWetWare users is that someone may accidentally or intentionally modify a page. However, all changes and updates are tracked and can be easily reverted. Nevertheless, course instructors do need to monitor their course site to ensure that errors are not introduced and propagated around the class.
No, you retain copyright to all materials you upload or write on OpenWetWare. You can later republish and relicense them in any way you like. However, you can never retract the Creative Commons Atrribution ShareAlike and GFDL licenses for the versions you placed here.
