How to Create a Group Wiki
You may set up any number of wikis within your course which may be used by a group of students or all students within your course. Bear in mind that since a Course Wide Wiki is also available, these group wikis are better suited for collaborative group work.
Edit Mode
1. Check that Edit Mode is turned ON. This can be switched by clicking ON or OFF.
Choose a Content Area
2. Choose the Content Area to which you wish to add your group wiki. All the content areas work in the same way. If you have renamed or added areas to your Blackboard course the screenshot above may vary from what you see.
Dropdown Menu
3. Hover your mouse over Add Interactive Tool and then click on Campus Pack Wiki.
Name
4. Enter the name of the Group Wiki, and a description. For example state who will be using the wiki, what they should be using it for etc.
5. Set the following options according to your preferences.
Make the wiki available
Answer Yes to make the wiki available to students.
Select the value to use to reference users in the wiki
Select person name or person name and user name in answer to this question about how public references to your course’s students should be displayed. This means that references to students are shown, for example "this page was last edited by XXX", depending on the value you choose.
Text direction for wiki content
In most cases you should not need to change the text direction option. If your wiki is likely to use languages which are written from right to left, such as Arabic, select this option accordingly.
Select Participants
6. Select the students who will be participating in the Group Wiki. Firstly, choose whether All course members will be using the group wiki, or Specific groups and course members. If you have already set up groups in your course, you may use those groupings. If you have not set up groups you can select the members from the list of students. Select the student and use the right pointing arrow to move them into the members list. The x icon will remove the selected student from the group.
Instructors have access to all wikis, and therefore cannot add themselves to the group because they already have access.
Options
7. Set the following options according to your preferences:
Allow students to permanently delete wiki pages?
Permanently delete refers to the ability to completely delete wiki pages, making it impossible to recover them. If you wish to allow students to permanently delete wiki pages select Yes, if not choose No. It is recommended not to allow students to permanently delete wiki pages.
Allow members to export the wiki
If you wish to allow students to extract the wiki in the form of a zip file to save as record of the wiki tick this box.
Who do you want to allow to comment on wiki pages?
You may allow group members to view / write / delete comments if you wish.
Date Restrictions?
8. Set these options if you wish to apply date restrictions for when students may edit the wiki.
Please note that it is not currently possible to select dates beyond 2010. We are following this up with the product supplier.
Date Restrictions? 2
9. You may use these settings to determine when students who are NOT members of the group may view this wiki. This can be useful if you wish for this group wiki to be viewable only by members of the group until a release date. You may choose whether they may view / add /delete comments.
If you do not want non-group members to view the wiki at all then do not select Allow non-members to view the wiki, this will mean students who are not members of this group will never see this group wiki.
Please note that it is not currently possible to select dates beyond 2010. We are following this up with the product supplier.
Assessment?
10. If you wish to assess this group wiki, and post a score in the Blackboard Grade Centre, then enter details into this section.
11. Click on OK to finish setting these options.
12. You will receive a receipt screen, click on OK.
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