The AMBIT and other wiki manuals from the Anna Freud Centre are undergoing a major upgrade (Early 2018) - consequently, some of the technical guidance material in this manual will become outdated. Please rest assured that it will be updated as soon as the final designs and functions are in place. Bear with us!

Purpose

To help new users find specific information about how this wiki manual works

About the Manual

The material and this format is released under a Creative Commons License and we ask users to respect this. Enquiries about the terms of the license can be directed to the Anna Freud Centre.

Aimed specifically at AMBIT users: there is a Video introduction to how AMBIT uses and shares new learning via the TiddlyManual.

1. How to read this Manual

How to read this Manual explains how to get the best out of this novel format as a reader, including a Video tour of the AMBIT manual theme that shows you round the new 'theme' (Feb 2012.)

2. Find your way around

Find your way around shows the different ways to find out what you need (indexes, searching, navigating, etc).

3. Learning from other teams manualizing their practice

The manual encourages a Community of Practice and there are variety of Comparing and Sharing functions that encourage curiosity about what other teams are doing that might improve our team's work.

4. Add or edit material in your manual

Some versions of these wiki-manuals support the creation of local versions that local teams can adapt to document their local requirements and evidence. AMBIT is the prime example of this.
See + Manualize our work for information on how to go about creating new content, and see Edit to learn the technical skills (simple!) for editing a local version to fit what you are doing in your setting, working with your clients.

5. Understanding this TiddlyManual format

Understanding TiddlyManual format explains basic details about how this software works - it is worth spending a bit of time on this if you are doing more than just browsing.

6. Organisational support for the technology to run TiddlyManuals

Organisational support for the technology to run TiddlyManuals explains some of the simple manoeuvres that can help get the best out of this material even if your organisation is using ancient browsers and operating systems (which in the NHS is not uncommon.)

7. Print material from the manual

Print material from the manual explains printing material from the manual, which is easy, and allowed under the terms of the Creative Commons License. Don't expect to be able to just "print the whole thing out", though!

8. Change the interface of your manual.

Change the interface lets you do things like add an icon to represent your team, change the size of the typeface, change the Title, the Subtitle, etc.

9. Videos

Videos are being added all the time to TiddlyManuals: there is also a growing collection of streaming videos (you must be online to access the streaming content) that describe how to use the manual, theoretical foundations, and illustrate a range of therapy techniques (these are being added to quite regularly, so check back occasionally.)

9. Help improve this

See Feedback please! for how to give feedback on what you like and more particularly what you do not like. There is also information here about to get technical information that you haven't found in the manual.

FUTURE DEVELOPMENT

Interactive Case Recording - not in operation yet...

Interactive Case Recording (or ICR) is only relevant to the AMBIT tiddlymanual - and N.B. - This function is not in operation (early 2018), but it may be available to try out in due course, depending on interest.

ICR involves downloading an entire fresh copy of the online treatment manual for each client, and using this downloaded copy (that then works completely separate from the internet, just like any document file, that you can store in a secure location) as a 'wiki-workbook' in which the worker(s) can make notes on a specific client, which can easily be exported to other databases; using the wiki adds much functionality to paper notes (searchability, tagging, integrated outcomes measures, etc.) and guarantees that workers have frequent contact with their local practice manual. Watch this space.