The popular wiki-building service Wikispaces recently made an handy enhancement to their user interface. The new feature is the option to upload files by simply dragging them from your desktop to the wiki you’re working on. I’ve included two screenshots of the process below.

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Step 2.

Applications for Education
The addition of drag and drop uploads doesn’t revolutionize the way that you and your students create wikis or what you do with them, but it is still a helpful little enhancement.

If you’re looking for ideas about assessing student use of wikis, check out these rubrics from the University of Wisconsin.