Topic: How are you using Backpack? / Teachers Using Backpack?

Cindy,

A few thoughts. I’m not a teacher, but have been using Backpack for several years to ‘organize my life’. I use for personal, community , and work projects – some in collaboration with others, some not.

I’m quite ‘tech savvy’ and often run in to the situation where I assume too much about others willingness to use the wiki features inherent in Backpack. On the other hand I’ve had pretty good luck with inviting a lot of folks to share pages I set up (no cost to them – cost tied to the page creator) and having only a small subset actually edit the pages collaboratively with me. That’s OK cause the rest still read the pages.

Constraint with this approach is everyone you share a agpe with has to give you their e-mail address and they have to register with BP. An alternative that might work for you is to make the page ‘public’. This still allows a few of you to edit the page, but anyone in the world can read it.

Good luck – Bill in Virginia

Topic: Troubleshooting and Bug Reports / Missing Images

Guido,

I recently had this same problem. I had some public pages that suddenly were hosed up. I made them private and then back to public – problem solved. Don’t know why, but it works.

Bill R.

Topic: How are you using Backpack? / Well, how do you?

Here’s another one for you:

https://billriski.backpackit.com/pub/169522