Back to school

Back to school

Squark 01 Sep 2008 09:31

Summer holiday is over and for some of you it is time to get back to school. This also means new tasks, new classes and new goals to achieve. You might wonder what Wikidot has to do with this? In fact, using Wikidot to support your classes is a great idea, and we will shortly tell you why.

We are also preparing a special offer for school, college and university teachers and lecturers. If you are a teacher or lecturer and decide to use Wikidot for your classes, let us know. If you need more functionality for the education purposes, we will be happy i.e. to increase the storage for your uploaded files, increase number of wikis you can create and help you organize your work.

More about Wikidot in Education can be found on a special page.

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Łukasz Tarka
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Last edited on 15 Sep 2008 12:13 by Squark + Show more

Re: Back to school

mythcaller 04 Sep 2008 11:21

Hello,

I currently a student and my university is using the wiki for facilitating a course. Also as a user I'm very excited about what you guys have in store with this announcement. How is the special Edu account be different from the normal accounts and the 'Pro' ones?

Thanks and keep up the fine work!

—Long

Re: Back to school

Squark 04 Sep 2008 13:24

Hi,

Wikidot For Education has almost the same functionalities as the Pro Account (to be introduced soon), but it's free. Wikidot For Education is available only for teachers/lecturers from schools, colleges and universities.

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Łukasz Tarka
Project Manager / Community Manager
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amanda2008 12 Sep 2008 13:40

Nueva forma y divertida de iniciar con la asignación, es in inglish but welllll….

Re: Back to school

pabloh 14 Sep 2008 20:52

Now that you (amanda2008) mention it…

… is there any chance, Wikidot Team, that each wiki's "system text" (UI, buttons) is in some language other than english or polish, any time soon?

There are plenty of offers from wikidot community to do the translation, if some mechanism becomes available…

Re: Back to school

michal frackowiak 15 Sep 2008 09:31

Yes, we are thinking about it and hopefully we will come with some kind of community-based translation mechanism. But I am not sure exactly when. We have some other tasks to complete before.

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Re: Back to school

Linus 21 Sep 2008 02:48

I love Wikidot and post all my lessons on TheTrueNorth.info. However, PBWiki has one feature which Wikidot does not. On PBWiki you can create users for just your particular wiki (so not for the whole PBWiki system) that don't require e-mail accounts. For those of us working with younger school kids, not having to have them register with Wikidot but only on your own wiki with a login and password that you, as admin, assign would be invaluable.

This is a link to a video explaining the PBWiki system.

Last edited on 21 Sep 2008 02:49 by Linus + Show more

Re: Back to school

michal frackowiak 22 Sep 2008 08:38

Thanks Linus, this is a very good feature indeed and a pity we do not have it yet. I believe this correlates with our idea of a panel to manage user accounts for some wikis or groups of wikis.

Thanks again for the suggestion!!!
Michal

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Re: Back to school

Linus 24 Sep 2008 03:10

What you're suggesting sounds very similar to what PBWiki has. When you get it in place I should be able to get my colleagues on your system quite easily since Wikidot has so many cool features the other wikis don't. I look forward to it.