Group Collaboration 101

wiggio is a simple tooklit that makes it easy for students to work together in groups

W.I.G stands for Working in Groups

D2L acquired Wiggio a year and a half ago

Can be turned on and then works through BrightSpace
But when you do it will show up as option for Nav Bar (see account rep--They will color match to your campus)

Wiggio is for students to contact their own groups (not set up by instructors)

Can be set up for short term or longer term groups (clubs, class, extra curricular)

What do groups do in Wiggio
File Sharing (docs and photos)
Poll group (get group consensus)
Share calendar
Message Group (text, video, email messages)
Real time communication (screen sharing audio and video, conference call with free dial-in)

Completely free version

Or one that integrates with LE so single sign-in, makes group creation easier, can set setting preferences (ie push notifications)

Can add a meeting or event to calendar and push notifications or can export to other calendars like google calendar (or import other calendars)

Instructor can create groups - if student creates group, the instructor has to be an invited member to see what students set up

Can also share by group link

Currently they are working integrating D2L "groups" with Wiggio Groups

In settings admin of the group (different than admin for the site which is campus IT) can set so email and phone numbers are private

Groups can do sub-groups (ie "execute team", "freshman", particular teams)

Can add files directly to group discussion within Wiggio (no limit to how much you can store, but there is a single video upload limit)

Conference call (up to 15 people with a dial in) -virtual meeting (up to 10 people with screen sharing capabilities)

Will store docs in folder (like a google docs, can get link to file for sharing outside of group, edit tool within the system-right now can't see who made whatchanges it will just say name and latest version on file name, not designed for syncronous editing)

Chats are archived

They are looking at the possibility of archiving virtual meetings in future versions, currently not now

Future version with also soon have ability to have Wiggio file be sent to a D2L dropbox (currently not available now)

Right now can not accept or decline times (but might be able to in future) could do as email with a checkoff or do a poll
Can create a takslist with due dates and "task" assignment to specific group members (can send out taks list by email)

Polling
Yes/No option
Short answer
MC
push notification, has aggregate data and list of who has taken/not taken poll

Can do video message up to a minute

Admin capabilities (usually more for IT) for data and stas and management