Comments on: Strategies for handling simultaneous edits

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By: digimom

digimom — Tue, 08 May 2007 14:50:31 +0000

PBWiki’s free version will let you have a wiki that doesn’t require an email address. The teacher can set up the wiki with his/her email address and then give the students the password. The password is all that’s needed to edit the pages. Unfortunately, like most wiki, live multiple editing can’t happen, but our teachers have done like you suggested – break up the edits over several pages off of the main. You can pay for PBWiki and get more control over student access and have it with levels of passwords, but for what it sounds like they want to do, the free version should be plenty!

http://pbwiki.com

By: wendy

wendy — Tue, 08 May 2007 14:07:46 +0000

I use wikispaces for this. If you email them with usernames and passwords, they will create accounts for students that don’t have an email. Best of all, its free for teachers and contains no ads.

By: A.J.

A.J. — Mon, 07 May 2007 19:27:05 +0000

I’ve always been a big fan of SubEthaEdit which is designed for simultaneous editing of text documents. If you have Macs and can easily install new apps, then this works wonderfully.

The free for non-commercial use version is here:

http://www.codingmonkeys.de/subethaedit/old.html

By: Jason

Jason — Mon, 07 May 2007 18:08:27 +0000

As far as the email issue goes, you might try Google Apps for Education. You have access to their email account with your own domain. You really don’t even have to let them access it. You can then let them use Docs and Spreadsheets and collaborate there. I have really like what Docs can do in terms of simultaneous edits. Works slick. Check out Google Apps for Education at: http://www.google.com/a/edu/

By: Elizabeth

Elizabeth — Mon, 07 May 2007 17:44:50 +0000

Back when JotSpot Live was around, the interface divided a document into sections and only one person at a time could work on a section. Now that Google has acquired JotSpot, I’m not sure what the differences are going to be, but it’s definitely something I’m keeping an eye on.

http://www.jot.com/

By: Gero

Gero — Mon, 07 May 2007 15:40:57 +0000

MediaWiki handles concurrency issues very gracefully. If two ppl work on the same text the second person to save will get a merge UI where s/he can choose where and how to insert the new version.

can be found at http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki

I introduced this wiki at my company for internal documentation as well as other important musings…