With the Wiki Tool (Teams LX), students are able to create a collaborative web site, or wiki, within Blackboard. The students use a WYSIWYG editor to author the collaborative site. Content can include rich text, images, external links, and uploaded files.

Each student can add content, edit others' contributions, and reformat layout as desired, but a full history of the revisions is maintained and accessible.  Teams LX measures and highlights the changes made by each student to a page.  This feature gives the instructor both quantitative and qualitative information with which to assess an individual's performance within the group framework.

Please note: there are two options for using wikis in your Blackboard course. The first is to use the Course Wiki which students access through Course Tools. The second is to set up a group wiki within a content area.

If you plan to use wikis in your course, you may wish to share this quick wiki tutorial with your students: http://stream.unf.edu:8080/ramgen/cirt/bb/wiki_for_students.rv

For user documentation, visit the Learning Objects website: http://support.learningobjects.com/help/campus_pack/3.0.3/wiki/wiki.htm

Course Wiki

Group Wiki

Using the Wiki Tool

Assess Wikis

Recycle Wikis

Course Wiki

In order to use the Course Wiki, you need to Configure Wiki Tool before you Access Wiki Tool:

Configure Wiki Tool

1. Click Course Tools > Configure Wiki Tool in the Control Panel menu.
   
2. Select the appropriate Course Wiki Tool Options.
   
   Please note: there are two options for selecting dates. The first set of dates are for allowing edits to the wiki and the second set of dates are for viewing the wiki.
3. Click OK to update the wiki options.
   

Access Wiki Tool

To access the Course Wiki, click Tools in the Course Menu, then click Wiki Tool.

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Group Wiki

In order to use a Group Wiki, you will first need to Add a Group Wiki, then you can Access a Group Wiki.

Add a Group Wiki

1. From a content area in a course (Course Documents, Assignments, etc.), click More > Add Wiki.
   
2. Select the appropriate Wiki Options. Click OK.

Access a Group Wiki

To access a Group Wiki, select the appropriate content area, then click on the View link below the Wiki Icon and Title:

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Using the Wiki Tool

Once you enter a wiki, use the navigation menu on the right side of the screen to use the tools available in the wiki.

Page

Under the Page section of the menu, users can edit a page, create new pages, delete pages, view the history of a page and print a page (with comments).

Site Navigation

The Site Navigation displays links to all of the pages in the wiki.

ToolBox

The toolbox provides a link to a page list and a link to export site (HTML).

WYSIWYG Editor

The WYSIWYG editor provides familiar tools for adding formatting, images, links, and multimedia elements to a Wiki page.

Click here for more information on the WYSIWYG Editor found in the Blog and Wiki Learning Objects Tools.

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Assess Wikis

Click on the Assess Wikis link under Course Tools in the Control Panel to do the following:

• view a list of all of the wikis in the course
• view a participation report for each wiki, showing how much each student contributed
• see a detailed participation report for each student for a wiki
• review the revision history for one page to see a particular user's revisions

This page shows all the wikis in the course and allows the instructor to view the details of a particular site:

Click View Participation next to a wiki to get to the Participation Report. The report shows an up-to-date summary of each participant's contribution to the site.

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Recycle Wikis

The Recycle Wikis link in the Control Panel > Course Tools menu of a Blackboard course gives instructors a way of removing user-created content while maintaining the settings for an assignment or course wiki so that wikis can be reused when copied between courses.

To recycle a wiki, click Course Tools > Recycle Wikis in the Control Panel of a course.

Check the box next to a wiki site to clear the contents. Click Submit.

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