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Wiki Permissions and Membership Explained

Wikispaces has custom permissions available, however you must pay for the upgrade plan.

There are however certain workarounds.

When you start a new Wiki, your log in at the time becomes an **Organizer** of the site. Anyone who clicks on "Join this Wiki" while signed into wikispaces can become a **member** of your site if you approve their membership. To check who are organisers and members on your site, click on the "Manage Wiki" link and then the members button. In the list of current member and organizers you will see some buttons at the top. Select a person by clicking the box on the left hand side and click on "make organizer" or "demote to member" button.

This is essentially how you can control access and who edits pages on your Wiki.

By default all members can edit any pages on your Wiki. However if you lock a page only an Organizer can change or edit that page.


 * Locking Pages**

To lock a page in your wiki, click on the "Manage Wiki" link in your menu bar. If this is not there ensure you are signed into Wikispaces. Click on the "Pages" button This will bring up a list of all the pages currently in your Wiki. If you have a lot of pages there will be a "Previous and next" button at the bottom of the screen to access more pages. On the right hand side is an actions link. If you click on the actions link you receive a number of options for that page. Second from the bottom is "Lock" click on this and the page will be locked and cannot be edited by anyone but an Organizer of the Wiki.

For school applications it is best if one or two teachers are in charge of the School Wiki (Organizers) and the teachers and students are members. For easy use give each class a log in e.g. user: //Room1awesomeschool// password: //rm1kiddies//

For older students or students who wish to access the Wiki from home, having their own Wikispaces user name and password is appropriate. That way a teacher can use the History button to see who has made any changes.