Starting today, color schemes on all 2.0 PBwikis are free! Earlier, color schemes were a Premium feature. But since we’ve heard more and more of you asking to use colors to customize your wikis, we realized it makes sense to offer them to everyone. With the release of the new settings panel, we’reContinue reading “New free feature: Wiki color schemes”
Tag Archives: New Feature for Educators
New feature: Classroom accounts for students without email addresses
For the last several months, we’ve been researching and designing a new way to add users to wikis without email addresses — notably, K-8 students. Today, we’re happy to announce a new feature, Classroom Accounts, which will let you add users without email addresses. In consultation with dozens of educators, we’ve created a system thatContinue reading “New feature: Classroom accounts for students without email addresses”
New Feature: Improved Settings Panel
Right now the improved settings panel is being rolled out to all education wikis, all others will see this new setting next week (Aug 18, 2008). Today wiki administrators will see an improved settings panel — with a new interface and easier navigation. The new setting panel has three categories: • Use the ‘Basic Settings‘Continue reading “New Feature: Improved Settings Panel”
Search 2.0: Now Better, Faster, Stronger
Mmm, dogfood. Here at PBwiki, we make use of our own product pretty extensively. And having used an internal PBwiki for some three years, we’ve accumulated a pretty large collection of material! This makes it ever more important that we be able to search it and find what we’re looking for. So we’ve dramatically overhauledContinue reading “Search 2.0: Now Better, Faster, Stronger”
New Feature — Re-arrange Your Sidebar Modules
Have you ever wanted to re-arrange your Sidebar on the right side of your wiki? At PBwiki, we just love adding new features. There are enough wiki jockeys here in at PBHQ that it guarantees we’ll have differing opinions on how things should work — that’s one of the reasons we work hard to fitContinue reading “New Feature — Re-arrange Your Sidebar Modules”
New feature: Allow users to request access to your wiki
Today, we’ve enabled a new feature on your wiki: Request Access allows users to request access to your wiki. Who would use Request Access? It’s perfect if you want to add users to your wiki, but don’t want to manage the process of figuring out their email address, adding them, and managing them. You’ll stillContinue reading “New feature: Allow users to request access to your wiki”
New PBwiki feature: Footnotes
PBwiki now supports footnotes. Whether you’re using PBwiki for research, collaborative writing, or organization, there are always lots of little details that you need to keep track of — places where sticking little snippets of text and references would be handy. Here’s a quick sample: To insert a footnote: Click Insert Plugin >> PBwiki MagicContinue reading “New PBwiki feature: Footnotes”
PBwiki Preview: The improved editor in PBwiki 2.0
One of the strongest pieces of feedback we’ve gotten is to improve our editor. Good news — PBwiki 2.0 includes a new editor that makes using your wiki far easier. I’ve been using it internally and it’s fantastic. Click to enlarge What does the new editor include? Better handling of bullet points and numbered lists.Continue reading “PBwiki Preview: The improved editor in PBwiki 2.0”
PBwiki 2.0 Preview: Page-level permissions
[See our past Previews of PBwiki 2.0: Overview] We’ve received hundreds of notes from users who want to control access to specific pages on their wikis. We’re happy to announce that PBwiki 2.0 will include page-level access. Today we’re taking you on a preview tour of how page-level access controls will work. In PBwiki 2.0,Continue reading “PBwiki 2.0 Preview: Page-level permissions”
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