Wesleyan Home → ITS → Services → Web Services → Choosing a Blog or Wiki

Wesleyan has multiple tools that can be used to create a web presence. These tools, including blogs and wikis, have different strengths that can make them a better choice for certain uses. Here are scenarios to help choose the appropriate product.

Tool for a class

• First choice would be Moodle blog or wiki
  • set to work with class rosters
  • can set the site to allow class roster to read only, or to be able to add information
  • Moodle groups work well for team projects
  • can add outside users to also read or add information

Tool to collaborate with outside colleagues

• Data is documentation for a project/research
  • users can edit each other’s entries
  • use a wiki
    • Confluence – external users will be userid_wikiguest## with a random character string password
    • Moodle – external users will be email@address.com
    • Confluence or Moodle wikis can be locked down to a group or open
• Data is topics to be commented on
  • users cannot edit another user’s entries, can only comment on them
  • use a blog
    • WordPress – external users will be userid_blogguest## with a random character string password
    • Moodle – external users will be email@address.com
    • WordPress can be restricted to a closed group, but group membership must be managed manually
    • Moodle – can be locked down to a group for viewing

Tool for meeting notes

• Need a tool to list the meeting notes historically
  • use a blog
  • users can comment on the meeting notes
  • remember this is open for viewing to the public
• Need a tool where multiple people can edit the meeting notes
  • use confluence
  • not a tool for comments, but is a tool for sharing the editing

For a detailed grid about the differences of web and web 2.0 applications click here.

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