how do I set up a wiki page ?

[ahedekinsdccd]

how do I set up a wiki page for an assignment?

[Chris_Hofer]

@ahedekinsdccd ...

Can you please clarify for us...are you an instructor?  Are you a student?  Can you provide any other details about your question that might be relevant?

Looking forward to hearing from you soon.

[ahedekinsdccd]

I am am instructor trying to make a wiki page an assignment. I am a little confused this. I made a page. Made it so students can edit. I set it up in a discussion but not sure if this is right? I don’t want the students going into the discussion be the wiki page? I did this in a class as a student 

[Chris_Hofer]

@ahedekinsdccd ...

Thank you for your reply...though I am still confused.  You first say that you are trying to make a wiki page an assignment.  Pages and Assignments are different, and you cannot "convert" an existing Page to an Assignment...there aren't any tools to do that in Canvas.  You'd have to copy and paste any content from your Page into an Assignment.  However, you then say you set it up in a discussion...and Discussion topics are very different than both Pages and Assignments.  And, you said you did this as a student?  Generally speaking, students aren't able to create course content within Canvas courses...unless there are permissions that would allow students to do that.  Since you are the instructor, maybe these short tutorial videos would help:

• Pages Overview (Instructors)
• Assignments Overview (Instructors)
• Discussions Overview (Instructors)

I hope this information will be helpful to you.  Keep us posted on if you have any other questions about this...thanks!

[ahedekinsdccd]

Hello Sorry for the confusion. To clarify...I was taking an @Oneclass through the california community college system where we had a making a contribution to a  wiki page was one of the assignments.  I am teaching a course and would like to create a similar type of assignment for my class.  Some of the videos online suggest starting the "assignment" (not assignment page in canvas)  as a discussion. Creating a page in your shell.  Linking the the page within the discussion to direct students to the page. Then using the edit button. I need a way to track contributions to the wiki page. I don't want to use the discussion format. I want to bring students to a page they can view and contribute.   JamBoard and Padlet will be hard to grade.  Wondering if there are other videos created by Canvas that are better than the videos on youtube.

[ProfessorBeyrer · Accepted solution]

There’s a Canvas limitation where the assignment for editing a Canvas page cannot be included as part of the page, so we made a separate assignment. What we do in @ONE is make a no-submission assignment with instructions and then the next item in the module is the editable page. The embedded screenshot shows the progression.

Module progression for edit-a-page as an assignmentIf you can think of how to make an assignment type out of editing a Canvas page, @ahedekinsdccd, I encourage you to submit that to Instructure: How do I create a new idea in the Instructure Community? 

[andrea_earl]

On occasion I have used an editable page (wiki page) in Canvas so that all students can contribute. This is done by creating a PAGE and changing the “Options” at the bottom of the page to “teachers and students” or “ everyone” can edit. You can also check the box “add to student to do list”. But I don’t think you can track participation less you ask students to add their names. However this is only possible in pages, not assignments or discussions. I’ve used it for collaborative brainstorming. Then I have an assignment where they use the information generated. Hope this helps. 

[TrishaMeyer1]

Hi @andrea_earl and @ahedekinsdccd ,

You can see who contributed to the Page by viewing the page history:

How do I view the history of a page in a course?

I don't think it gives a huge amount of information, but you can at least see whether every group member contributed at some point.

[ProfessorBeyrer]

Thanks for mentioning this, @TrishaMeyer1. In the assignment I described, we ask participants to share a formative assessment idea they either use or have heard about. We ask them to include their name along with a brief description of the assessment. When I grade the associated assignment I look first in the page history to see who has edited the page, then I confirm that they have actually edited the page. For those who forget to type their names (or if I do a typo when I search the page, I compare before and after in the page history to see what changes that user made.