Use the Microsoft Teams Wiki app

Quick collaborative document

You or your students can create a quick collaborative document, either as part of a group exercise or as part of a contact exercise that you are running with them.

Meeting notes

An easy way for people to collect together notes when having a meeting that everyone will be able to access and see. Meeting notes are also tied to the channel moving forward, so they can’t get lost.

Group project tracking

A wiki is a great place for students to store a collection of materials around a group project they might be working on. Rather than being a single document, the wiki format (a collection of pages with different sections) gives the opportunity to collect together a range of different materials and project artefacts.

Create a FAQ tracker/other general access resources

Because Teams is made up of multiple conversation streams you may find that you get similar questions reappearing. To save time answering every person individually, it can help to track frequently asked questions in a single place so that you can refer them to it. A wiki attached to a channel would be a great way to do this.

The easiest way to set up a wiki page is to add it as a tab for a desired channel. To do so:

1. Navigate to the channel where you would like to add the Wiki function. 
2. Click on the + sign at the top of the screen to add a new app. Browse through the apps and select the teal green Wiki app.
   
3. Give the Wiki tab an appropriate name, for example ‘Assignment 1 questions Wiki’. As you can add more than one Wiki tab it’s worth giving it a specific name.
   
4. Uncheck ‘Post to the channel about this tab’ if you do not want the channel members to be notified (otherwise leave this checked). 
5. Click ‘Save’. Then you will be able to navigate the wiki tab and start editing.

• A Wiki is made up of a number of pages each with a series of sections. You can navigate through these pages and sections by expanding the menu (available through the list menu icon in the top right corner of the wiki window).
• A Wiki starts with one page in which you can create different sections, but if you have more pages to create, you can add them using the ‘New page’ button at the very bottom of the menu column.

• By clicking on a page title or section title, you can update it and it will be shown in the navigation menu on the left hand side.
• When clicking on the content area you will see the formatting toolbar at the top of the screen. This allows for the usual text formatting functions but also allows you to add images, create tables and add links.

It is also possible to quickly view all the Wikis that are in the channels you have access to through the general view. The general view for the Wiki app can be found in the ellipsis menu at the bottom of the left hand toolbar in Teams.

In this view you can: 

• access all other available Wikis created in the Teams channels you are a member of – you can do this either through the list of Wikis visible in the ‘All’ tab or by viewing ones you have accessed recently through the ‘Recent’ tab
• create a personal Wiki via the ‘personal’ tab