Moodle ISU Wiki: Options in ISU Canvas for Faculty

Canvas does not have a Wiki tool, but you can create a course wiki by creating a Page and allowing students to edit that Page. Note: At this time there is no way to directly grade student contributions to this "wiki page", although you can create a no-submission Assignment to manually give students a grade for their contribution.

1. In Course Navigation, click the Pages link. To select a previously created page from the Pages Index, click the View All Pages button.
2. Enter a name for the page. Add links, files, images, and other content using the Rich Content Editor.
3. Click the Users allowed to edit this page drop-down menu and select Students.
4. You can add the page to the student to-do list by clicking the Add to student to-do checkbox. When you add a page to the student to-do, the to-do displays in the student's to-do list as well as in the course calendar and students' sidebar To Do list.
5. To assign specific sections or users to the page, set Availability dates for it, or assign it to Mastery Paths, click the Assign To field.
   1. Select one or more assignees. You can assign to everyone, everyone else, a course section (group), an individual student, or to Mastery Paths.
   2. To find a student or section more easily, enter a few letters of the name and select the name from the filtered list. 
   3. To remove an assignee, click the assignee Remove icon.
6. By default, students can access the page at any time during the course or section dates. However, you can schedule specific dates and times for the page to be available by entering dates and/or times in the Available from and Until areas.
   1. Before the Available From date and after the Until date, students can only view the page title as the content contained on the page will be locked for students.
   2. You can assign the page to other students or sections with different dates and times by clicking the Add button. Then enter additional assignees and availability dates.
7. To save the page assignment details, click the Save button.
8. You can choose between publishing the page, unpublishing the page, or scheduling the page for publication options and then click the OK button.
9. If you are ready to publish your page, click the Save & Publish button. If you want to create a draft of your page, click the Save button. Note: If you try to navigate away from the page without saving, you will generate a pop-up warning.
10. You can notify users that content has been changed by clicking the Notify Users that this content has changed checkbox.