Is there any way to invite large nos. of people to join a wiki and not die in the process?

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Permalink Reply by Glenn Hubbard on April 12, 2009 at 12:01pm

Thanks for the reply.
I could change over to pbwiki.
Where do you actually cut and paste from though?

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Permalink Reply by Glenn Hubbard on April 12, 2009 at 12:41pm

Thanks once again. :->

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Permalink Reply by Peter Lane on April 12, 2009 at 12:46pm

I am using Wikispaces and didn't run into any problems... You can upload a spreadsheet with all the data and then Wikispaces walks you through the rest of the process.

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Permalink Reply by Glenn Hubbard on April 12, 2009 at 1:37pm

I'll get back to you if I ever get that far. ;-)
Thanks

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Permalink Reply by Peter Lane on April 12, 2009 at 1:43pm

If you need some help let me know...

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Permalink Reply by Nancy Bosch on April 12, 2009 at 7:11pm

You might want to consider inviting in stages---you may have a melee on your hands!!

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Permalink Reply by Nathan on April 12, 2009 at 7:59pm

Glenn,

Your question may have already been answered, but I thought I would share with you what I did with my 150 students using my wiki. The day I introduced my classroom wiki, I had the students in each class period come to my desk and type in their e-mail address so they could receive the invitation. They then went back to their desks where we were using a class set of lap tops and opened their e-mail and accepted my invitation. I would also reccomend creating a "dummy e-mail" so that students with no e-mail or computer access can still use the wiki using the e-mail and password you created. I use wetpaint for my wiki and this method for inviting students worked well for me.

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Permalink Reply by Glenn Hubbard on April 13, 2009 at 6:30am

Thanks to all for suggestions and help. :->

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Permalink Reply by jbyers on April 13, 2009 at 9:11am

Hi Glenn,

James from Wikispaces here. Sorry to hear you're having trouble. Two options:

1. Use our bulk user creation tool if your students don't yet have Wikispaces accounts. It's purpose-built for educators who want to add lots of students to their wikis, whether or not they have email addresses. More on this tool can be found at: http://blog.wikispaces.com/2008/12/create-accounts-for-your-student...

2. The invite page -- if your students already have Wikispaces accounts -- lets you invite up to 100 students at once. Just paste all the email addresses into that box.

If there's something else you're looking to do, we'd love to hear about it and try and find a solution for you (and others with the same problem). Drop us an email at help@wikispaces.com.

Best,
James

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Permalink Reply by Glenn Hubbard on April 13, 2009 at 10:36am

Many thanks indeed James.

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Permalink Reply by Glenn Hubbard on April 13, 2009 at 10:40am

Think this is probably my second reply - can't find the first one to edit!
As I am a university teacher (in Spain) I don't think I would be eligible for the bulk user tool, it being only available to K12 teachers.

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