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User Accounts and Wikis
 When you join Wikispaces, the first thing you will do is create a user account. A user account (with a username, password, and e-mail address) is your identity on Wikispaces. You may then choose to create a wiki, or join a wiki. A wiki is a place where you can create and edit pages and invite other people to collaborate with you. You can create, or join, as many wikis as you like on Wikispaces.com. Each wiki can have an unlimited number of pages and files. Think of Wikispaces as a big building. Your user account is your key. The rooms in the building are wikis. Your key will let you into any room that you have created, or into anyone else's room who decides to let you in.

Different Types of User

 * **A Guest: ** A guest is anyone who is visiting Wikispaces.com but who has not signed in to a user account. Guests can view all public and protected wikis. They can also edit pages on public wikis but not create new pages. Guests can read, but not post, to discussion pages.
 * **A User: ** Anyone logged in to a user account on Wikispaces.com can view all public and protected wikis on the site. They can edit and create pages in public wikis as well as post to the discussion pages in those wikis.
 * **A Member: ** ( **Students ** ) When a user account is added to a wiki, they become a member of that wiki. They can then view and edit the wiki whether it is public, protected, or private. Members of a wiki are also able to upload images and files to that wiki. Any member of a wiki can be promoted, by the organizer, to be a fellow organizer of that wiki.
 * **An Organizer:( Teachers ) ** The organizer of a wiki has administrative access to that wiki. They can invite people to be members, approve requests to join the wiki, delete pages, upgrade or delete the wiki, determine whether a wiki is public, protected, or private, change the look and feel of the wiki, and manage the subscription of that wiki.

User Profile Pages
<span style="color: #404040; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">By clicking on your username at the top of the page, you will be brought to your user profile page. This profile page allows you to see more about your user account, including: > <span style="color: #222288; font-family: Georgia,serif;">
 * <span style="color: #404040; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">Which wikis you belong to
 * <span style="color: #404040; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">Your recent edits to any page on Wikispaces.com
 * <span style="color: #404040; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">Your favorite pages. On every wiki page, there is a star next to the name. By clicking on it, it will be saved on your Profile page under Favorites for your future reference.
 * <span style="color: #404040; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">Your tags (You can find out more about tagging in the "Advanced Features" section of this Getting Started tutorial.)

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 150%;">**<span style="color: #222288; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;">To Begin Editing **

<span style="color: #404040; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">Click "Edit tab on the right hand side of this Page."
<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px;">**<span style="color: #222288; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 140%;">Basic Formatting **

====<span style="color: #404040; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">The visual page editor is easy to use. It lets you format your text, insert images and files, and link to other pages using a simple toolbar. To change the format of your text, simply highlight the text you would like to change, and click on the desired formatting button in the toolbar. You can format text in bold, italics, underline, various headings, and numbered and unnumbered bullets. <span style="color: #000080; display: block; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 140%; text-align: left;">** Linking ** <span style="color: #404040; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 19px; line-height: 29px;"> When you create a new page in your wiki, you'll want to create a link to that page. You can create links by highlighting the text you wish to link and clicking the icon in the toolbar. You can link pages within your wiki or to locations outside of your wiki. ====

====<span style="color: #404040; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">To remove a link. place the cursor on the link, or highlight the link, and hit the Remove link icon in the pop up Insert link box. ====

<span style="color: #222288; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">Messaging System
<span style="color: #404040; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">Wikispaces.com has a private messaging system that members can use to communicate with each other. You can use it to send messages to all members of your wiki or to an individual user. By clicking on the envelope at the top of the page, you will be brought to your message Inbox. You can see who has sent you a message as well as compose your own message. As always, your e-mail address will remain private. Individuals can only use this system to send messages to usernames, not to e-mail addresses.

<span style="color: #222288; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">Discussion Tab
<span style="color: #404040; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">Each page has its own discussion area. The discussion tab is similar to a forum in that people can post a message or question and other members can respond to it. Each discussion thread, along with its number of replies and views, will be visible on this page. Organizers of a wiki can delete specific threads or comments.

<span style="color: #222288; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">History
<span style="color: #404040; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">Each time someone edits a page, a visual snapshot of the changes so you can see at a glance how much has changed in each revision. Was it one line or the whole page? Click on 'history' at the top of any page to see all versions of a page. Then click on the specific version you would like to review and you'll see a visual representation of the changes. You can compare versions and revert back to a previous copy if necessary. To revert a page:
 * <span style="color: #404040; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">Click on 'history' on top of the page you want to revert
 * <span style="color: #404040; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">Select the version you would like to go back to, by clicking on the revision in the date column
 * <span style="color: #404040; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">Click 'revert to this version' at the top of the page
 * <span style="color: #404040; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">Enter a comment and click the Revert button

<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">Editing Your Navigation Bar
<span style="color: #404040; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">On the left side of each page in your wiki, you'll see a "Navigation" section. The content in this section will display on every page in your wiki. It's a nice way to have a common menu across all of your pages. To link to pages in the Navigation Bar: <span style="color: #404040; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">The space.menu page is just like any other wiki page meaning you can put in links, headings, images, lists - anything that can be on a normal page. The only difference is that bulleted lists will not have bullets displayed in order to preserve space.
 * <span style="color: #404040; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">Click on the "Edit Navigation" link on the left side of your page.
 * <span style="color: #404040; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">You will be editing the special "space.menu" page.
 * <span style="color: #404040; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">Type the names of the pages you want to appear in the Navigation Bar.
 * <span style="color: #404040; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">Highlight each name and link it to the appropriate page by clicking on the button that looks like [[image:Link.png]] in the toolbar.
 * <span style="color: #404040; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">Save the page.