Instructors wishing to incorporate wikis should take a few things into consideration. First, wikis are designed to be collaborative; individual projects simply don't take advantage of the technology in effective ways. Students should be encouraged to figure out most technological issues on their own so they can learn to make good use of help documents and can adopt ways of learning new technologies. The collaborative element of wiki projects means that these assignments often take more time than individual projects, since groups have to coordinate schedules and divide up duties. Finally, instructors should be aware that students have varying access to the Internet and may use wikis differently as a result. For example, some students without internet access will draft large chunks of text at home, then copy and paste into the wiki, rather than writing directly in the page.

Some suggested short-term assignments for the writing classroom are as follows:

• Select, analyze, and revise an article from Wikipedia
• Collaboratively write a wiki article with the whole class
• Use wikis for "individually composed essays and collaboratively written introductions and conclusions"

One author of this website has previously had students engage in a longer-term wiki project (about 6-8 weeks of the course). In this project, students begin by proposing topics to classmates in individual oral presentations. Students then form groups (without instructor interference) based on topics presented, write a project plan, conduct research, and collaborate on an informative and/or persuasive wiki site targeted toward a specific audience.