how to use WIKI Plug-In

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Login into your Blackboard course, enter your course content area where you want to add a Wiki (e.g., Course Information, Course Document). You will see five buttons on the top of the content area page. Click on the More button and select Add Wiki option.

 

Select New if you want to create a new wiki, or select Link to existing Wiki if you want to use your existing wiki.

 

If you select New, click Submit button to create a new wiki.

 

And then you will be directed to a page as shown below. Enter a Title and a short Description for the wiki.

If you want to create a Grade Center Column for the wiki, check the check-box and specify the following settings, then click Add button.

The system will direct you to the new wiki page. On the wiki page, you can click on Permissions to set up specific permissions for users and groups.

Users have three different roles: Viewers, Authors, and Owners. Viewers can only read the wiki; Authors can make new pages and edit or delete content; Owners have complete control over the wiki.

We will suggest you to set members of the wiki as Authors so they can View pages and Write Comments. Click on Authors tab, the text box under The Authors shows the authors of this wiki.

To remove the authors, click on it and then click Remove button.

To add authors, select what you want to search from in the first column, then select a group or a user from the second column, then the third column if necessary.

If you need to set date restriction for the wiki, click on the calendar buttons next to Start and End. after you finished all the settings, click Save button.

Then click Finish button.

Assessment link allow you to check the activities made by participants.

Click on Assessment, the system will direct you to the page shows Overall Statistics and the detailed statistics for every participant.

The wiki you just created will be shown in the content area like this. Click on the View link to open the wiki.

 

On the wiki page, click on Edit link next to the page title to edit the current page.

You can enter a new title and type your content in the text box. You can use You can use the tool bar below the title to make the page more fun. For example, use the tree button to upload an image to your wiki page.

Click on the Save & Exit button to finish.

To add a new page, click Add New Page link on the right side of the screen.

 

Enter a title, click Continue.

Type your content in the text box.

 

Click on the Save & Exit button to finish.

 

Please pay attention to this area. If you have more than one page, then every time when you would like to edit a certain page, you have to make sure you are on the correct page. Pages on the right side of the screen under Add New Page button tells you which page you are at. Like the image below, Second Page is italic, it means you are on the second page. If you want to go to the home page, simply click on the homepage link.

 

To give your group member or other groups feedbacks, click on the Add a Comment text box.

 

Type a title and your comment, then click on the Post button.

The number next to Viewer Comments link shows how many comments have been posted. The content of the comments are shown below.

 

To co-author this wiki project, before you make any changes, check Latest Activity on the right side of the screen to see what changes have been made by your group members. Click on View all activity to see all the activities.

 

If you want to copy the wiki over to another course, before you use the wiki, you may need to click on Mange Campus Pack under Course Tools in Control Panel to synchronize campus pack in order to make the wiki work.

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