Course Wiki Comparator Research

Owned by Matthew Harrington
Oct 20, 2023
1 min read

Moodle

  • Offers a native wiki tool

  • Also offers a contributed tool from The Open University

  • Cited use cases: Tool for collaborative work such as an entire class editing a document together, creating a class project, and small group work

Canvas

  • Does not offer a native wiki tool

  • Many forum citations of a workaround using Page feature and group settings, which demonstrates some level of demand for this type of feature

  • Cited use cases: Collaborative writing assignments; collaborative note-taking

Coursera

  • Does not offer a native wiki tool

Skilljar

  • Does not offer a native wiki tool.

General Landscape Overview

Wiki tools appear to be present in all traditional VLE contexts, but very few platforms outside of this include them out of the box or feature them as a core learning tool. Wikis are regularly found as optional plugins for platforms that focus on the academic market, such as Totara Learn.