Blackboard Wikis

Wikis are a collaborative tool made up of editable pages. Your course Instructor may use Wikis to manage documentation related to group work or in some assessable capacity.

After you update and save a wiki page the system delivers the new version of the page for future views. Wikis also maintain a record of page updates. This means your instructors can rollback a page to some previous version.

A wiki overview

Locate your course Wiki within your Blackboard course
Click the Title link to enter the Wiki space

You are able to navigate to different pages via the summary box

On other notable feature is that updates to Wiki pages generate a page history. Pages can be compared with previous versions. Your instructor can modify your page versions or edit any content as necessary.

Wiki How-To's

For formatting content:

Blackboard help: The Text Editor
Ask I.T. Help: Media and Mashups

Create Wiki page

Follow any instructions regarding the use of the course Wiki from your instructor. Always keep the content appropriate. To create a new page:

Click Create Wiki Page

Give the page a relevant name
Add and format content using the text editor
When you are finished click Submit
Note: there is no drafting feature as wiki pages work on the basis of being refined/revised

Edit a Wiki page

To edit a wiki page:

Click the Edit Wiki Content on an page you have A legitimate reason to edit.
Using the navigation bar: Click the Arrow drop down icon > Edit

Update the page content using the text editor

Click Submit to save a new version of the page

Link Wiki pages

Wiki pages can be linked together to associate related content. When creating or editing a Wiki page:

Click the Link to Wiki page tool in the text editor

Select a Wiki Page Link from the drop down menu
Optionally rename the page link
You might do this to make the page name more readable/relevant or so the link fits into a sentence
Click Submit

You link will be viewable in the text editor but might not be active until the page is saved.
The same is true of media elements. Remember you can use the Preview tool in the editor to look at your page before you submit.