Creating a Wiki page

This is (hopefully!) a simple, step-by-step guige to creating a Wiki page. It's much easier than you might anticipate, and is very similar to making a Word document.

All pages exist at the same level, so any structure between pages is determined by the links you put between pages.

If you have any other questions or queries, please feel free to email us at evidencenet@heacademy.ac.uk. Similarly, f you think that this page could be improved upon, we would welcome any amendments!

Click on the headings below to go to the specific instructions.

Getting started: creating and editing a page

To make a page, you need to be a member of the EvidenceNet Wiki. To request membership, click on

Adding anchors to text

For a table of contents:

1. Type the text that you would like to act as the heading for your table of contents.

2. Type the text that you would like the make the table of contents link to (the anchor).

3. Select the text that you would like to make into the anchor. On the toolbar, click insert and HTML/JavaScript:

4. In the dialogue box, you need to enter some HTML code which will do two things:
1. Give the anchor a reference name;
2. Make the anchor display as a normal heading.

The code is as follows:

<a name="anchor_ref"> <h1>Title</h1></a>

You need to change the bits in yellow:

3. Change anchor_ref needs to something short and simple, with no characters.
4. Change Title to whatever you would like the text to display as. 

For example, for a subheading about assessment and feedback, I would use the following code:

<a> <h1>Assessment & feeedback</h1></a>

NB: the bit in turquoise makes the text appear like heading 1, you can change/remove this depending on your preferences.

5. Click next and then insert plugin. The plugin will then display like this in the version you are editing:

It will display like this in the published version:

You can test it by clicking save at the bottom of the window you're editing.

6. Next, you need to add a link from the text to the anchor.

Select the text that you want users to be able to click on to go to the anchor and click Insert a link to a new page on the right hand navigation:

In the box that opens, you need to copy and paste the URL from the address bar of the page you're editing, adding #anchor_ref at the end, for example:

http://evidencenet.pbworks.com/EvidenceNet+Summaries#assessment

7. Press enter and you're finished! To check that it works ok, click save which will publish it and let you see it as other users will.