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- Atlassian University offers interactive videos and step-by-step tutorials for using NYU Wikis. Just sign up with your NYU email address to get started.
- The Digital Studio provides one-on-one training to NYU faculty, staff and students interested in using wikis for teaching and learning, administrative or research purposes.
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NYU Wikis is a web-based collaborative tool that faculty and students can use to create and manage private and public content for research, instruction, and University-related activity. A wiki is a tool that enables the easy creation and editing of interlinked web pages, using a rich text editor within the browser. Wikis are often used to create collaborative websites and projects, to power community websites, for meetings and personal note taking, and as intranets.
Features
NYU Wikis offers the following features and capabilities:
- Collaborative: NYU Wikis is a great tool for holding discussions, developing ideas for projects, sharing knowledge and meeting notes, and even maintaining an event calendar. It's a great choice for a variety of uses and situations:
- Group projects that require the collaborative creation of documents.
- Graduate students who want to store lengthy and complex dissertation notes.
- Faculty members looking to create asynchronous workspaces within or across NYU schools and departments.
- Student organizations creating spaces for facilitating meetings and minutes.
- Easy, instant editing: You can edit pages right in your browser.
- Auto-save: Your work is always protected.
- Version rollback: Revert to a past version at any time — NYU Wikis keeps page histories.
Getting started
To request a new NYU Wikis space, please complete the Ask ITS Contact Form. For the "Subject," select Wikis. Please also indicate that you wish to create a new NYU Wikis space in the comments section.
Help & Training
Ask ITS knowledgebase
The Ask ITS knowledgebase contains a variety of FAQs and training videos to support the use of NYU Wikis:
- NYU Wikis: Logging in
- NYU Wikis: Service Definition
- NYU Wikis: Administering a Space
- NYU Wikis: Online Training for NYU Wikis (Atlassian University)
- NYU Wikis: Working with Macros
- NYU Wikis: Adding Rich Content (Images and Attachments)
- NYU Wikis Terms of Use
- And more
Atlassian University
In addition, Atlassian University offers online interactive videos and step-by-step tutorials for how to use NYU Wikis. Sign up for Atlassian University with your NYU E-mail at https://university.atlassian.com.
Training
One-on-one training is available for NYU Wikis. Please see the ITS Training page for more information.
Additional Support
Should you have any questions or concerns, please contact the IT Service Desk via e-mail at AskITS@nyu.edu or by calling 212-998-3333. For global locations, check the IT Service Desk page for local service desk information.
Page last reviewed: May 22, 2013