About the Course Wiki#
Courses can optionally configure a wiki application and set it up for appropriate use in your course. If you have specific expectations for how the wiki should be used, communicate these expectations to your learners and staff. You can seed the wiki with specific content and provide a skeleton structure and some exemplars. At the beginning of the course, explain how you want the course wiki to be used, and provide clear instructions and guidelines for its use.
Common uses for the course wiki might include the following activities.
Sharing answers to course FAQs and collecting new FAQs.
Sharing editable course information, such as download and installation instructions for software required for the course
Providing shared access to learner-created resources, perhaps as part of a collaborative exercise.
Sharing errata for the course.
Collecting suggestions for future runs of the course.
As learners and course team members create and edit wiki articles, they contribute to a repository of information about your course that can be immediately useful to other learners or useful for you and your course team as you develop other courses or future runs of the same course.
The wiki for each course is a “child” wiki of the single wiki that exists for your whole instance. From within any course wiki, select the top-level Wiki link in the breadcrumb trail at the top of the page to visit the instance-wide wiki.
Managing the Course Wiki#
Keep these points in mind as you design the wiki for your course.
Be clear about the wiki’s purpose or for different parts of the wiki. For example, are some parts of the wiki only for disseminating information? If so, ensure that only your course team has written access to those articles.
Decide whether some parts of the wiki are intended for learner collaboration or learner input. Make sure that learners are able to create and edit wiki articles in those sections, and use text to clearly indicate to learners that these pages can be edited.
Think about the different tasks that will be performed by people in different roles. Typically, you want your course team to have some privileges that learners do not have. For example, course team members can delete wiki articles, but learners cannot.
Members of the course team can perform these tasks to manage the wiki.
All users, including learners, can perform the following tasks, depending on the permissions that you set for an article.
Add a Wiki Article
Edit a Wiki Article
Manage Versions of a Wiki Article
Search for Wiki Articles
Maintenance chart
Review Date |
Working Group Reviewer |
Release |
Test situation |
2025-03-20 |
Documentation WG |
Sumac |
Pass |