Creating Wikis in Your Course

Why?

A wiki is a website where multiple individuals add and edit content collectively. Multiple related pages may be linked within the site.

Wikis can be used in teaching for:

Encouraging students to build a collaborative knowledgebase
Facilitating research coordination and collaboration
Group portfolios

Benefits of wikis for students include:

A sense of class identify
Peer interactivity
New modes of assignment submission/completion
Ownership of content

Creating a Wiki

Click Edit Mode in the top right of your screen to access your site in Edit Mode.

Select Course Tools > Wikis in the Control Panel

Click on Create Wiki.

Create Wiki

In the Wiki Information section, enter a name for the wiki in the Wiki Name field and enter a Description.

If you want to make the wiki available to students, select Yes for Wiki Availability.
Choose whether or not student users can edit the wiki.

Note

The group option for selecting members only appears if groups have previously been defined within the course. See Creating Student Groups for details.

If you want to restrict the time period for editing the wiki, select the appropriate options.

Note

If you set a date range for when the students can edit the wiki, instructors, TAs, and course builders will also be unable to edit the wiki outside the date range.

Choose whether or not the wiki will be graded. Add a rubric and change task status here if you plan to grade the wiki.
Scroll to the bottom of the screen and click OK to add the wiki to your course.

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Last modified: Aug 09, 2011, 17:05 EDT

Creating Wikis in Your Course

Why?

Creating a Wiki

Note

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