knowledgeGarden help

If you are new to the knowledgeGarden community

(You may also want to use Live Support or some of the other support tools mentioned later on this page.)

Things you should know and do to get started

Here are a number of pages you should read if you are new to the knowledgeGarden Wiki.

• Start here: orientation, registration, setup, and creating pages
• instructions to register
• HowTo: Setup your knowledgeGarden account
• explore knowledgeGarden
• FAQ
• TikiWiki sandbox allowing you to experiment (history is NOT saved)
• test page 1 allowing you to experiment (history is saved)
• improve or create a page

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If you are not new to the knowledgeGarden community

How to documents

Page	hits
HowTo: Wiki page tags examples	1152
Howto: Use the USQ StudentWeb server	872
HowTo: Setup your knowledgeGarden account	1317
HowTo: select your theme and perhaps even modify it	193
HowTo: Improve and promote my page	547
Howto: get UNSTUCK - in a course or when using software	275
HowTo: edit a wiki page movie	387
Howto: draw diagrams in knowledgeGarden	356
HowTo: Create your knowledgGarden UserPage	679
HowTo: create and use a knowledgeGarden blog	278
HowTo: Create a wiki page	565
HowTo: create a screen movie	249
Howto: add a poll to you page	471

Howto: add a poll to you page
HowTo: create a screen movie
HowTo: Create a wiki page
HowTo: create and use a knowledgeGarden blog
HowTo: Create your knowledgGarden UserPage
Howto: draw diagrams in knowledgeGarden
HowTo: edit a wiki page movie
Howto: get UNSTUCK - in a course or when using software
HowTo: Improve and promote my page
HowTo: select your theme and perhaps even modify it
HowTo: Setup your knowledgeGarden account
Howto: Use the USQ StudentWeb server
HowTo: Wiki page tags examples - Wiki tag example with samples to use to copy and paste into your own pages.

Use the Shoutbox

If you need to ask a question of others in the community you can type into the Shoutbox and click on the send button.
The Shoutbox is found in the left hand side of the screen or you can go to the ShoutBox page that has all a running record of all ShoutBox postings.

Skype contacts you can call with a knowledgeGarden question

Getting involved

• getting more involved in knowledgeGarden

Search and Table of Contents

If your problem is finding something, you can use SEARCH (at the top of the left hand column of any page) or go to the Table of Contents, this is divided into many sections, see the table at the top of the Table of Contents page.

FAQ

• FAQ Here you can find a list of frequently asked questions (with answers) about using the knowledgeGarden Wiki

Forums

There are currently two forums in which you can ask questions and find answers.

• knowledgeGarden technical questions and comments forum
• knowledgeGarden community comments, suggestions and errors forum

Our Guides will monitor update these pages in response to your questions.
There are also two forums where users post tips that they feel may be useful to others.

• General: Tips and hints forum
• knowledgeGarden: Tips and hints forum

Ask a guide

You can also send one of our Guides a direct question.

Ask Peter Evans in any of these ways

• under MYTiki > MESSAGES > COMPOSE and send a message to PeterEvans
• send an email to with "knowledgeGarden:" in the subject
• Skype to evans-pj
• MSN Messenger to (please don't send email to this address)

Use RSS

You can use My Tiki > My Watches to keep up with changes to individual pages. However, if you are concerned that you may be missing changes to other pages or the addition of new pages you can use RSS. At the very bottom of this and every page you can see 3 RSS links, one will keep you updated with changes and additions to wiki pages, one blogs and one forums. Click on the RSS links and copy the URL of the feed into your RSS reader.

For a description of what RSS is follow this link Introduction to RSS.

For some suggestions on which software or tools to use follow this link Specific RSS software and tools.

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