Category: Collaborative Sites
What is My Bookmarks?
My Bookmarks is a new feature in your course site. It allows you to create a shortcut to valued posts. Instead of having to search for the posts by author, date, or keyword, you see the post title in the "My Bookmarks" block along the left side of the course page.
Help documents are available via two methods in your course website.
A complete listing of Help documents, divided by categories, is available by clicking the red Help tab. These documents cover general help, the Collaborative Site interface, and common tasks.
Basic formatting icons are available to help you arrange your post and make it more readable. The icons are similar to those in Microsoft Word or GoogleDocs.
Below you can see the icons available in your course site. Use the numbers below each bracketed set of icons to see the definition and examples.
Wiki or "Group" posts can be created, edited, and commented on
by anyone in the class. Group posts keep a history of revisions,
and can be attributed to multiple authors.You may or may not have
the option of a Wiki post.
Glossary posts allow you to define a term, character, or topic
that you are using in your course. You may or may not have the
option of a Glossary Post for your course.
Your course site is all about creating new content. In
some sites, the content might have different names. Usually,
a student creates content in a "post". However, in some courses,
students will create a "reading response", or a "discussion
summary". It all depends on how your course is structured and what
sort of assignments your instructor creates. If the names on
this document aren't exactly what you see, don't worry.
Anything that you add to your course site is content, and the
instructions below will apply.
My Account is where you customize your interactions on the course website. It does not allow you to change your password. To change the password you use with your netid, read the instructions at http://helpdesk.wisc.edu/page.php?id=4612.
View – This is the information that can be seen by your classmates. Others can subscribe to your posts from this tab.
Bookmarks – This displays a list of posts that you have bookmarked. See My Bookmarks.
Copying and pasting text from Microsoft Word can cause problems on Collaborative Sites.
Here are some tips to avoid formatting problems:
