Group Workspace (Wiki)
For the first time, instructors can organize students into groups and assign each group to jointly author a dynamic website (wiki) with multi-media content. And when the wiki site is done, instructors can view each group member's contributions and grade them accordingly. Excerpted from: http://www.learningobjects.com
Creating a wiki in your course for Group projects and/or Portfolio's
Some instructors are currently using Wiki's for Group Projects, where several students can work on a site together.
Other instructors are using Wiki's so students can create their own Portfolio's which are viewable by only the student and the instructor.
If you would like to use wikis for Student Portfolio's, we have created two documents for you which you will need to download. .
This webpage provides step by step instructions on how to create and use Learning Objects wiki tool inside of Blackboard.
Before you create a wiki site, you have to decide whether you want to manually add students to the wiki site or create Groups via Blackboard's Group feature
Step 2: Enabling the wiki tool in your Blackboard site:
Step 3: Creating a wiki Page for your students to work on
*** You will have to create a wiki page for each group ,if you have 5 groups, you will need to repeat this step 5 times ***
From Your Control Panel, select the area of your course where you want the wiki to appear (For example, if it's an assignment, perhaps you want to put it in Assignments)
You will see the following at the Top of your Screen:
Move over to the Select: option on the far Right
Change "Learning Unit" to "Wiki" and Press GO
Your Screen will change and it will look like the image on the following page.
Section 1: Type the Name of the Group. In the Description we recommend you put the names of the students so that they know whether or not they should be able to access this particular teams site.
Section 2: You will need to select the members. If you've created groups, you can select the group and press the
to move the Group name into the Selected Groups column , otherwise you
will have to scroll down the list and find the students who you want to add to this group.
Don't forget to click the 
to move them over!
Section 3: Set your Availability Options**
** If you do not want students who are not in the group to see the Wiki, you must set options in the: Choose the dates and times for which non-group members will be allowed to view the wiki section
If you want it set so that students will never see the wiki. select the Display Until box and choose a date that has passed.
If you want it to work so that after a certain date, all students in the course can view the wiki, then choose Display After and set the proper date.
Section 4: If you want to add this assignment to your gradebook, you can do so here!
Click Save when done! Once you hit Save, it will take you back to the Control Panel.
Step 4: Did it work?
Back out of your Control Panel and into your course (Student View, not Instructor View) and go to where you posted the Teams Site
You should see something similar to this:
Click View
Once you click View, your screen should change and you should see:
For information on how your students can use the wiki, refer to: "Wiki Guide for Students" This is a word document that you can download and modify in case you have specific directions you would like to add.
If you would like to see how wiki's are used in a Course or if you require additional information , please contact Teaching, Learning + Technology's Blackboard Support Team at:
bboard@notes.cc.sunysb.edu