After JR, RJ, and Tyrel investigated possible wiki platforms, Paul Nuffer has helped us set up a MediaWiki installation for UVU educational content.
Mediawiki is one of the top oss wiki platforms, and allows us to LDAP students into the system with directory-specific editing privileges. This means (hopefully) that Banner will send student accounts straight into wikilearn.uvu.edu, and students will login using standard UVID/password.
The URL is wikilearn.uvu.edu, though currently we are piloting it for fall with only subdirectories. I'll work on scripting an index page in the future.
Subdirectories will be added on a departmental level, so Computer Science will have wikilearn.uvu.edu/cs open for editing for their faculty and enrolled students. At this point our objective is to disallow anonymous editing and user account creation--the only wiki editors will be faculty and students (and possibly staff).
We can include wiki content pages into Bb Vista or Moodle courses in place of or in addition to regular content web pages. Similar to the Shadow Files system, the beauty here is that multiple courses can use the same content source. The source content in the wiki will be as current as faculty or students want it to be, and can be the base for a lot of cool collaborative student and faculty authoring projects.
For fall we are going to allow CS and DGM access to wikilearn.uvu.edu. Kirk Love and Nate Snapp will be using it for content in their CS courses, and I'm going to start transitioning some of my DGM stuff to it as well.
The library has asked for access for Spring, and hopefully we will be able to add more departments and courses as well. Spread the word.
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