Blackboard enables your students to collaborate on a wiki. A wiki is usually a group writing project. While it is rare, you can create a separate wiki for each student. More commonly, you can separate students into groups, and then have a wiki for each group. So each wiki that you create can be for the entire class, for a group within the class, or for an individual.
In this section, we'll see how to create a wiki for the class. Groups are covered in Chapter 8, Working with Groups. After you know how to create and manage a class wiki, you will have the background needed to work with group wikis.
Just like every course has a Blogs page that lists all of the blogs in the course, and a Course Discussion page that lists all of the forums in the course, every course has a Wikis page that lists all of the wikis in the course. When you first create a course, a wiki might already be created for you. It depends upon how your administrator has set up the new course template.