Newcomers

For new visitors

• Create your account at the top right, giving yourself a login name.
• Get the hang of maneuvering around StudyPlace, knowing where to find its various forms of functionality:
  • Experiment with the sidebar on the left, particularly links in "resources."
  • Test out the tabs and buttons across the top. Note how a "study" tab adjoins the "article" tab and next to them there is an "edit" tab. You read and navigate the site with "article" or "study" active. You make changes with "edit" active.
  • Explore the info boxes on the right, which provides two sets of entries to the contents of the site — categories and pathways.
  • Follow the Be_Bold:_A_Wiki_Workshop.
• Explore the Commons to learn more about how StudyPlace is organized.
• Read about the functionalities and differences between the article and study tabs on StudyPlace.
• Sample existing StudyPlace content through the site index.

StudyPlace grows, bit by bit, as members contribute to it. Here's how.

• Start to edit with small steps and then big ones. Try out editing in the sandbox — it is simple, although not WYSIWYG.
• For formatting, print out a cheatsheet. More generally, consult the help resources at Wikipedia - these are fair game since StudyPlace and Wikipedia both run on the MediaWiki software platform.
• Tell us about yourself on your user page. Help:User pages explains how.
• Start a page by clicking on something red or using the "new page" box. Be sure to associate your new article with categories. This will enable like-minded folks to find your article easily and will facilitate an effective navigation of the site in general.
• Suggest or critique something on a study page (click "study" up top).

Members explore what educates and what does not in many ways.

• Start or participate in conversations about concepts important in educative experience.
• Share your knowledge with others by contributing to the explication of concrete subjects in educational scholarship.
• Consider major intellectual figures As Educator.
• Post an essay or comment on one using its Study page.
• Review a recent or old movie or book, showing how it educates or miseducates, how it might change its audience.
• Learn how StudyPlace is bridging the gap between informal educative experience and formal coursework by seeing how StudyPlace can be used as a course platform
• Find a stub of interest to add a bit to it, to make it grow.

Utilize existing support

• Test out the work tools.
• Acquaint yourself with the help resources and locate the policy_guide.
• See who is doing what with recent changes.
• Browse special pages to check out what's behind the screen.

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