Students Step by Step Guide

This guide has been written to assist students whom are taking part in a formal student project within Physiopedia. The guide will help you with setting up your account, editing pages and problem solving.  

Please note that your tutor will be your first point of contact if you have any questions.

Project Instructions

Initially you will be given instructions from your tutor on the nature of your project in Physiopedia and what you will be expected to acheive.

These instructions will be outlined on a specific project page in Physiopedia which can be found listed somewhere on our main Projects page.

Get your own Physiopedia account

To make edits in Physiopedia you must have a Physiopedia account.  To do this follow the instructions below:

1. Click on the request account tab in the left sidebar.  
   
2. You will be asked to complete a form where you must tell us:
   • your email address
   • your full name - as you will be adding to a professional resource this must be your full real name
   • a short biography - this will be included on your profile page, you can edit it later
   • your licence or registration details - please indicate that you are a student, which university you are from and which project you are working on
3. Once you have submitted this form you will be sent an email which contains a link to confim your email address.  
   If you do not receive this email within 24 hours there is a problem with your email (some university firewalls reject Physiopedia emails). First please check your spam folder to check that it hasn't been filtered into your spam.  If you still can't find it you should contact us
4. Once you have confirmed you email address we will activate you account and you will receive your login details (username and password) by email. This process may take up to 48 hours.
   

Now that you are able to login to Physiopedia we suggest that you complete you profile within Physiopedia.

Setting up your profile

Everyone with an account has a profile page in Physiopedia. These pages are easily found by Google so we suggest that you complete your profile to give yourself a professional presence on the site. To do this follow the instructions below:

1. Go to your profile page.  This can be found by clicking on the link (Your Name) at the top of the left side bar under Personal Tools.
2. You will see that the page contains the short biography that you provided at the top of the page with several empty sections further down the page.  You should make edits to the page under each section where appropriate so that you are represented online in an acurate and professional way. To do this:
   • Click the Edit tab at the top of the page (you must be logged in to see this).
   • In the editing box that appears make the changes and additions that you wish to make (you can move your short bio that was automatically added at the top of the page and include itunder the appropriate headings below).
   • Click Save to save your changes.
3. We suggest that in the least you add a photograph of yourself, content under each of the headings where appropriate (you can add headings if neccessary), and a link (such as a link to the university that you are studying at, the place where you work, the club where you volunteer etc).  For editing assistance see our user tutorials on and editing pages, adding imagesand making links.

See Profile page examples here, here and here.

Remember anyone can view this profile including future employers!