Online Learning icon Adding a wiki

  1. Select Wiki from the dropdown menu and hit Go.

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  2. Give your wiki a name and description. You may want to include here what the objective of the wiki is and what is expected of participants.

  3. Select the participants you want to give editing rights to the wiki. You can individually choose members or select all members of a group. Note: The Choose a Course Group option will only appear if you already have groups set up within your course.

  4. Select the options for the wiki. You can:
    • Make the wiki visible
    • Allow participants to comment on wiki pages
    • Create a date range for group members to edit the wiki
    • Create a date range for non-group members to view the wiki

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  5. Decide if the wiki contents will be assessed. You can create a Gradebook entry for the wiki. Check the box and complete the details. Note: If you leave the ‘Entry Name’ blank the entry will not appear in the Gradebook.

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    Note: It’s preferable to leave public references to students as the “Person Name”.
    The alternate language option – Primary Text direction is best left as “None”.

  6. Select Save then OK to return to your course documents. You can then change the position of the folder using the numbering system.

Help sheets:

Creating a Wiki 

Contributing to a Wiki 

Viewing and adding comments 

Viewing Wiki History 

Monitoring participation 

Managing Wikis in Blackboard – Instructors PDF 120k

Using Wikis in Blackboard – Students PDF 110k

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