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A wiki is a collection of collaboratively authored web documents. Basically, a wiki page is a web page everyone in your class can create together, right in the browser, without needing to know HTML. A wiki starts with one front page. Each author can add other pages to the wiki by simply creating a link to a page that doesn't exist yet.
==What is the Wiki activity?==
*The WIki activity allows students to create a collaborative document by building pages together, similar to Wikipedia. Unlike other collaborative editing programs (such as Google docs) the Wiki is a standard Moodle activity and so no extra permissions or logins are needed.
*Although Wikis are usually collaborative, it is possible to allow each student to create their own Wiki for individual use.


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==How is it set up?==
==How does it work?==
===Student view===
===Teacher view===
==More information==


* [[Wiki settings]]
* [[Wiki settings]]

Revision as of 08:30, 14 August 2020

What is the Wiki activity?

  • The WIki activity allows students to create a collaborative document by building pages together, similar to Wikipedia. Unlike other collaborative editing programs (such as Google docs) the Wiki is a standard Moodle activity and so no extra permissions or logins are needed.
  • Although Wikis are usually collaborative, it is possible to allow each student to create their own Wiki for individual use.
Overview of the Wiki activity

How is it set up?

How does it work?

Student view

Teacher view

More information

Wikis get their name from the Hawaiian term "wiki wiki," which means "very fast." A wiki is indeed a fast method for creating content as a group. It's a hugely popular format on the Web for creating documents as a group. There is usually no central editor of a wiki, no single person who has final editorial control. Instead, the community edits and develops its own content. Consensus views emerge from the work of many people on a document.

In Moodle, wikis can be a powerful tool for collaborative work. The entire class can edit a document together, creating a class product, or each student can have their own wiki, visible only to them and their teacher.