Some courses include a wiki, which provides a public forum for both students
and the course team to access, share, and collaboratively edit information
about the course. If your course includes a wiki, you access it by selecting
the Wiki tab at the top of any page. (If your course does not include a
wiki, this tab is not present.)
The instructional team for your course might use the wiki for the following
purposes, among others.
As a student, you can perform the following tasks, depending on the permissions
that are set for the wiki.
This section describes how you can contribute to the course wiki.
When you add an article to the wiki, be aware of what level you are currently
viewing, to make sure that you add your new article to the correct level in the
course wiki.
To move down a level in the wiki, select See all children; to move
up, select the appropriate level in the wiki breadcrumb trail links at the top
of the page.
To add a wiki article at your current level, follow these steps. If you do not
have permissions to add an article, when you select Add Article, a message
indicates “Permission Denied” .
- In your course, select Wiki.
- Navigate to the level where you want to add a new article.
- Select the Add Article button near the top right of the page.
- On the new article page, add a title for the page, and optionally a few
keywords to create a “slug” that provides a more specific location
identifier for your article.
- Add contents to the article. You can enter plain text and use Markdown
syntax to add formatting. For help with Markdown syntax, select the link to
the cheat sheet at the upper right corner of the Contents field.
- When you have finished entering content for your wiki article, select
Create Article.
To add a child article to your current article, follow these steps. If you do
not have permissions to add an article, when you select Add Article, a
message indicates “Permission Denied” .
- In your course, select Wiki.
- Navigate to the level above where you want to add the new child article.
- Select See all children.
- Select the Add Article button under the wiki title.
- On the new article page, add a title for the page, and optionally a few
keywords to create a “slug” that provides a more specific location
identifier for your article.
- Add contents to the article. You can enter plain text and use Markdown
syntax to add formatting. For help with Markdown syntax, select the link to
the cheat sheet at the upper right corner of the Contents field.
- When you have finished entering content for your wiki article, select
Create Article.
If you have permissions to edit an article, you see an Edit button and icon
to the right of the article content.
To make changes to a wiki article, follow these steps.
- In your course, select Wiki.
- Navigate to the article you want to edit.
- Select Edit.
- Make your changes. For help with Markdown syntax, select the link to the
cheat sheet at the upper right corner of the Contents field.
- In the Summary field at the bottom left, below the Contents field,
enter a short description of the changes you made. This description appears
in the Changes list, and helps other users of the wiki understand what
changes you made to the article.
- When you have finished making edits, select Save changes.
A Filter field is available only if any level of the wiki contains multiple
articles.
Enter a text string in the Filter field to find a list of all articles with
that text string in their titles.
The wiki includes a change history for each article. You can view each past
version of the article, roll back to a selected earlier version of the article,
or merge the current version of the article with a selected earlier version.
- In your course, select Wiki.
- Navigate to the wiki article for which you want to see the change history.
- Select Changes. Previously saved versions of the current article are
listed, with the most recent at the top.
- On the Changes page for your wiki, select the revision of the article
that you want to view.
- Select Preview this revision to see the article as it appeared after the
revision was made.
- On the Changes page for your wiki, select the revision of the article
that you want to view.
- Select the linked date, time, and author information to see the line-by-line
changes made in that revision. Text that is highlighted in red has been
replaced by the text that is highlighted in green below it.
- On the Changes page for your wiki, select the revision of the article
that you want to roll back to.
- Select Switch to selected version to replace the current version with
the selected one.
- On the Changes page for your wiki, select the revision of the article
that you want to merge with the current version.
- Select Merge selected with current to combine the current and the
selected versions.
The wiki for each course is a “child” wiki of the edX-wide wiki. From within
any course wiki, selecting the top level Wiki link in the breadcrumb trail
in the upper-left corner of the page takes you to the edX-wide wiki. To get
back to your course wiki, select the Wiki tab at the top of the page.