Motivation and emotion/How to use Wikiversity

This page documents the main wiki skills needed for successful participation in this unit.

Completion status: this resource is ~50% complete.

Welcome

Wikiversity welcome for newcomers
Guided tours of Wikiversity

Orientation

Where am I?

Welcome to the English-language Wikiversity (http://en.wikiversity.org). Much of the learning material and activities for Motivation and emotion will utilise Wikiversity.

What is Wikiversity?

Wikiversity is a wiki for free and open educational resources. It is supported by the Wikimedia Foundation which also supports sister projects such as Wikipedia and Wikibooks. For examples of Wikiversity content, try visiting a random page.

What is on Moodle?

The Moodle site provides announcements, discussion forum, and gradebook. It is for formally enrolled students who wish to receive institutional accreditation.

How is the content organised?

Motivation and emotion links to unit content. You can also explore the unit content via the category page: Category:Motivation and emotion.

Create an account

By registering a Wikiversity account, you will create a user page which can be a good place to write about yourself, keep notes, and add links of interest. As the unit unfolds, you will be required to author material on Wikiversity. Editing using a registered account (rather than anonymously) helps to track and organise your contributions.

How can I learn about using Wikiversity?

To teach yourself more about Wikiversity, try the guided tours and see Help. You can also ask questions at the Colloquium which is Wikiversity community hub.

Want to know more?

Post questions or comments to the Moodle discussion forum.

What wiki skills do I need?

The basic required skills are:

Creating an account
Logging in
Locating your user page
Editing, adding, and saving text
Formatting
1. headings
2. bullet-points
3. Help:Links
Working with images
Communicating via talk pages
Being bold enough to ask for help

Creating an account

The first step is to create a Wikiversity account - also see why create an account?. By the end of Week 3, you should have created an account and emailed or messaged your user name to the unit convener.

Choose your user name carefully

If you are happy to have your name attached to your work/reflections, then feel free to create a user account using something like your real name.
If you do not want to have your real identity public, then feel free to create a user account using a pseudonym.
If you want to have your account renamed, ask the convener.
For more information, see Wikiversity:Privacy policy

FAQ

How to convert a word doc into wiki format

If you develop text offline, as a word processing document, and you want to convert to Wikiversity (e.g., because you have formatting such as headings and links), it can be converted into wiki-text format. Email the convener who can help with this (or you can try yourself - e.g., via the wiki-text export function in Open Office Writer.