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The City SchoolPrep Girls North Nazimabad5200650-285750ICtech Grade 7PBWorksQ.1 What do you know about online collaboration?Ans. Online collaboration lets a group of people work together in real-time over the internet. Those engaged in online collaboration can work together on word processor documents, Power Point presentations and even for brainstorming, all without needing to be in the same room at the same time.Q.2 Why do we have online collaboration?Ans. It enables us to share resources, achieve shared goals, share new ideas and new perspectives. It also allows us to leverage new relationships by taking advantage of tools and skills.Q.3 Which online software can we use for this purpose?Ans. PBWorks.Q.4 How do you access to PBWorks?Ans. We access PBWorks through Get Started link at that site. We can set up a wiki on Edu Hub as a basic user for free and it allows user to view, post and edit the wiki.Q.5 How many users does PBWorks allow in free account?Ans. PBWorks allows 100 users to view post and edit the wiki.Q.6 What storage limit of PBWorks does a basic user have?Ans. A basic user can upload and download up to 2 GBytes of file stored on the PBWorks server.Q.7 Write some features of PBWorks.Ans. Some useful features about PBWorks are:You choose whether or NOT your wiki can be seen publically.PBWorks does not require email addresses for invited users.PBWorks does need an email address from the Instructor acting as the workspace administrator.PBWorks functions best in Google Chrome.Q.8 How do you change the background color of wiki page?Ans. To do this, navigate to the Settings tab, choose COLOR in the left sidebar menu and select any color, then Save the Color Scheme. As a ‘Basic’ free user, this is the only ‘look and feel’ option you can change from the settings. Q.9 How do you add pages to the wiki?Ans. There are two main ways to add a wiki page to your workspace.Add a link, and then add the page to which it links.Add a page, and then add a link to it.Q.10 Describe the ways to track your contributions in PBWorks.Ans. PBWorks is not the ideal tool for tracking contributions, but it does have a few features which are useful for this purpose:Last Edited By: at the top of each page PBWorks automatically displays the name of the most recent contributor, and the approximate time of contribution.Page History: PBWorks tracks changes to every page and displays them in one list on a ‘history’ page. If contributors enter a description each time they make a change, this description is listed along with the date and the contributor’s name.Recent Activity Bar: In the right sidebar, there is a bar which lists recent changes and who made them. The items are listed by Page name and contributor.Q.11 What do you see the first time you log-in to PBWorks?Ans. Once we have set up account and logged in for the first time, we are directed to a default front page.Q.12 How do we invite people to become users of PBWorks?Ans. If we choose to let people to view or edit our workspace, then we have to provide the workspace link to those people and ask them to request access. Once they do, they will be notified by an email. To grant access, we simply select Approve from the Users tab. PBWorks will automatically send approved users an email with their workspace password.Q.13 How do you create Classroom Accounts?Ans. We create user accounts for students from within the Users tab. First we select Add more users. If we do not want to share our students email addresses with PBWorks, we select create accounts for your students. This leads to a four stage user account creation process:Choose how many accounts you want to create and what permission level they should be granted(reader, writer or editor)Assign student namesConfirm Account DetailsPrint Account List(user ids and passwords)Q.14 Explain role or permission level which is granted to invited users in PBWorksAns. Permissions are granted by assigning ‘Roles’. There are three roles to choose from:Reader: can read pages but not add information to them, or add/delete them.Writer: can read and add information to pages but cannot add/delete them.Editor: can read and add information to pages and add/delete them.Q.15 How do you create a new page in the workspace?Ans. In the right sidebar choose the option to create a page and follow the dialog instructions. Provide a name for the page, and choose a folder to store it. If you don’t provide a link to it from another page in the workspace, you will have to open it by selecting it from the folder through the Pages and Files tab. Q.16 How do you edit page in the workspace?Ans. Choose the Edit sub- tab for the page you want to edit. Then use the wiki editor to make the changes and save them. Only users with Writer or Editor Roles can access the Edit sub-tab.Q.17 How do you add a link to another page in the workspace?Ans. In the wiki editor view, click on Insert Link and choose a page from the list of pages in the right sidebar. A link to the page will be inserted on your page wherever your cursor is placed.Q.18 How do you add a link to a resource file stored in the workspace?Ans. In the wiki editor view, click on Insert Link and choose a file from the list of images and files in the right sidebar. A link to the file will be inserted on your page wherever your cursor is placed.Q.19 How do you add a link to a web page outside the workspace?Ans. In the wiki editor view, keep your cursor where you want to insert the link. Click on Insert Link and then in the prompt window, enter the URL of the webpage.Q.20 How are files uploaded from your computer to the workspace?Ans. From Pages and Files tab, navigate to the folder where you want to put the new file. Then drag and drop the file from your computer to the PBWorks folder.Q.21 How are files downloaded from the workspace to your computer?Ans. From Pages and Files tab, select the file you want to download from the folder in the workspace. PBWorks will display the contents as a wiki page. PBWorks will also provide a DOWNLOAD tab which you can select to download the file. ................
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