Wiki+Help

=Wiki Help= [|How to Work on a Page] [|How to Add Text] [|How to Add Pictures, Videos, and Files] [|How to Link to a Web Page] [|How to Create and Link to a New Page] [|How to Embed Media] [|How to Undo] [|Using the Floating Toolbar] [|How to Print a Page] || For more help, click on Help at the top of the screen or email your question to sblc@eastconn.org 
 * **Wiki Basics**

How to Work on a Page

 * Click on the **Edit This Page** button at the top of the page
 * Add text, pictures, videos, files, links to webpages and media.
 * Click Preview to see what the page will look like before saving.
 * Click Save
 * Be sure to save often.

How To Add Text:

 * Click and type where you want the text to appear.
 * Use the formatting buttons on the toolbar.
 * Click Preview to see what the page will look like before saving

How to Add Pictures, Videos and Files

 * Click the image icon which looks like a tree in a box [[image:http://www.wikispaces.com/s/rte/images/image.gif]]
 * Use the 'Upload New File' or 'External Image URL' dialog to select the image or file you wish to put on your page
 * Put the cursor at the position on the page where you wish to put the image or file
 * Double click the image or file to put it on the page
 * You can also add pictures by copying and pasting off of the Internet into the page.
 * Click Preview to see what the page will look like before saving.

**How to Link Words to A Web Page**

 * Highlight the word you'd like to link to.
 * Click on the Add Link icon [[image:http://www.wikispaces.com/s/rte/images/hyperlink.gif]] in the toolbar to add a new link.
 * Click on External Link and type or paste the web URL

How to Create and Link to a New Page or Link to an Existing Page

 * Highlight the word you'd like to link to.
 * Click on the Add Link icon [[image:http://www.wikispaces.com/s/rte/images/hyperlink.gif]]in the toolbar to add a new link.
 * To link to an existing page, pull down and select the page name you would like to link to.
 * To create a new page, either keep the name of the word you highlighted or write a new page name.

How to Embed Media (such as YouTube videos)

 * When editing any Wikispaces page, you'll see a button on the toolbar that looks like a television [[image:http://www.wikispaces.com/s/rte/images/embed.gif]].
 * Click it, and paste the HTML from any embeddable web service in the box.

How to Undo

 * You can't actually Undo something you just did like in a word processor, but you can revert back to the page before you saved it.
 * Click on 'history' on top of the page you want to revert
 * Select the version you would like to go back to, by clicking on the revision in the date column
 * Click 'revert to this version' at the top of the page



Using the Floating Toolbar

 * The floating toolbar is helpful when the wiki page is longer than the computer screen.
 * Click on the Floating Toolbar [[image:http://nutmeg2008.wikispaces.com/i/float_toolbar.gif width="56" height="20" link="http://nutmeg2008.wikispaces.com/help#"]]and it will move with you as you scross down the page.



How to Print a Page
Click on the down arrow on the page tab of the page you wish to print and click on print to get a printable copy of the page.