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NOTE: This page is intended to be copied into your local TWiki site, hence it uses InterWikis? for links to TWiki.org. Italics indicate things you'll want to modify for your local setup.

See TWikiPresentations? for the 'intro-generic' slides that go with this outline.

Admin tip: make sure you can reset passwords during the course, TWiki:Codev/ForgettingPasswords is very common!

Introduction

A short course on TWiki - approx 2 hours long.

Goals

• Explain what TWiki is
• Explain how it can be best used, and when to use other tools
• Provide training and practice on specific features of TWiki
• Explain structure of some local TWIki web, and make a simple update to this web

Audience

• intranet users or whoever

Location

Training Room - delegates have access to the main Twiki server.

Prerequisites

None

Things to bring with you

It's useful if you can come along with some ideas for some information that might be useful to add to the local web.

Outline

• Introduction
  • What is a Wiki
  • What is TWiki?
  • Benefits of Wiki approach
• Getting Started
  • Concepts - Wiki words, use of Wiki words to create new pages and link to existing pages
  • When to use Wiki, and how it fits into other processes/tools
  • Overview of the Main and local webs
  • Exercise: register as user, and create a personal home page
    • Customising home page
    • Logging on with WikiName not login name
    • Create a test page, linked from a course area page
• Formatting - bold, italics, bullets, numbered lists
• Linking
  • Wiki links using Wiki words
  • External links using http://foo, use of InterWikis? for linking
• Headings - H1, H2 and use of %TOC%
• Attachments
• Navigation and searching
  • Bottom of page - Ref-By, Diffs
  • Top of page - Changes, Index, Search by name and text, single web vs all webs (including use of improved 'AND' searching as per TWiki:Codev/CategorySearchForms - optional, only if available)
• Demo of a form-based web - local web if possible, or TWiki:Know/Home_
• Local TWiki Web organisation - what goes where, 'Up to:' convention, Resources convention, creating a new page somewhere

Resources

TWiki:Main/TWikiPresentations - useful presentation material, the 'intro-generic' pres goes with this outline

TWiki:Main/TWikiQuestionnaire

TWiki:Codev/TWikiDeploymentDiscussion - deployment issues discussion

• discussion of how courses can help adoption is at TWiki:Codev/HowToGetInternalBuyInForTWiki

WikiOrg?:TipsForSiteOperators - how to build participation

-- RichardDonkin - 11 Feb 2002