Projects Step by Step Guide

Once you have decided to use Physiopedia in your class you should follow this step by step guide to get you started.

Get in touch with us

Once you have decide that you would like to complete a project in Physiopedia you should first contact us to let us know and allow us to collaborate with you and provide support for your Project.  

We will first discuss with you the requirements of your course and together formulate a suitable Project in Physiopedia. We will then ask you for some imformation realting to your project and with this set up your own Project page. 

Next you will need your own Physiopedia account....

Get your own Physiopedia account

Sign up for a Physiopedia account for yourself using the Request Account link at the top of the sidebar on the left.

When you request your account just let us know in the 'Additional Information' box that you wish to use Physiopedia in your teaching.

You will receive an email asking you to confirm your email address.  Once you have done this wait for another email informing you that your account has been activated.  This is a manual process and may take a few days.

Once your account has been activated it is a good idea to familiarise yourself with making edits on the site....

Familiarise yourself with editing

Our main recommendation for anyone supporting a student project in Physiopedia is to become familiar yourself with making edits to pages. The best way to do this is by editing your own Profile page in Physiopedia to include links and images. If you need help with any of this you can refer to the User Tutorials.

It is also worth becoming familiar with creating new pages, adding them as links to your Project page and adding a Templates to those new pages for the students to work from.

• For creating new pages - See creating pages tutorial
• If you would like to use a Template for your project just let us know and we will set one up for you. For adding Templates - see adding Templates tutorial.
• For making the links on your Project page - see making links tutorial

It is also useful for you to know how toadd references and videos so that you can help students with these.  You can practice any of this in the Sandbox.

After editing your Profile page it is a good idea for you to create an Article in Physiopedia which you can direct your students to as a standard that you would like to see. See the articles from the Texas State Project as an example of some great Articles, they even created their own images and videos!

Before your students start on the Project they will need their own Physiopedia account...

Get your students a Physiopedia account

Get your students to sign up for a Physiopedia account by requesting an account as you did.  They need to use their full name for their username.

When they request their account they should inform us that they are working in Physiopedia under your instruction.

As you did they will receive an email asking them to confirm their email address. Once they have done this they should wait for another email informing them that your account has been activated.  Again, this is a manual process and may take a few days.

Once their account has been activated they are ready to familiarise themselves with making edits on the site....

Initial familiarisation session

Then before your students get to work on creating the Articles that you tasked them with it is beneficial to have a familiarisation session in a computer lab. Use this session to go through editing their Profile pages and getting familiar with editing pages, just as you have done following the advice above. These sessions have been proven to be very beneficial in several previous projects and is always something that the students ask for in their feedback.
If you and your students become familiar with editing Physiopedia in this way at the start of your Project the whole experience will become a much greater experience instead of a technological challenge!

Instruct your students what to do in Physiopedia

1. You will need to provide your students with tasks to complete in Physiopedia. You can be as creative as you like with this, see our Educators Application Examples for ideas.
2. You should set a time frame for the students to complete the task.
3. It is also useful to create learning outcomes for the students related to the task that you set them.

Follow your students progress

You can follow your students contributions and progress in a number of ways:

1. Each Physiopedia page has a History tab where you can view how various users have contributed on a specific page.
2. You can flag pages your students are working on by using the Watch tab at the top of each page. The pages that you are 'watching' can be followed by going to My watchlist under the personal tools tab in the left sidebar.
3. You can also track individual user contributions by visiting their profile page and clicking on User contributions under the toolbox tab at the bottom of the left sidebar. To find a persons profile page you can:
   
   • either type the users name into the search box at the top of any page, the resulting page should identify the persons profile page which is named "User:Persons Name", click on this.
     
   • or go to the User List and search for your student in the alphabetical list of users, click on their name.

Provide feedback to your students

You should provide feedback to your students on their contributions. You can do this in a number of ways.

1. You can provide feedback to your students in the Discussion tab on the page that they are working on or on their profile page.  This feedback will be public.
2. Alternatively you can provide private feedback.  This can be done by using clicking on email this user under the toolbox tab in the left sidebar of their profile page.

Provide feedback to us

We would be grateful if you would provide us with feedback of your experience of using Physiopedia in your teaching.  We will use this feedback to improve Physiopedia as a teaching and learning tool for educators.  You can provide us feedback by email or by adding feedback to our Educators Feedback page.