Jeff, I checked out wetpaint and started setting up a wiki that I would use with my class, but one of the most important things is sharing documents. I noticed that the limit for document uploads is 2mb, which is not all that much. I would love to use wetpaint instead of blackboard, but limitations like that are pretty serious problems.

Kludgy, I know.

My name is Jeff Utecht and I’m an educator helping out Wetpaint this year. Sounds to me like you have some pretty specific needs for your site. Looking at your diagram above I know that Wetpaint can easily create pages within pages for this type of “group” that you want. There is also a private message service built into wetpaint that would allow everyone to communicate within the wiki environment. When you make a wiki private you do loose the RSS feed (and I’m double checking with wetpaint as I type) but you can still go into the “What’s New” tab and see the latest updates on all pages, threads, posts, etc. Not the perfect solution, but still a way to get updates on what has been happening on the site.

And of course, you have me there to support you along the way. I suggest you take a look at the http://wikisineducaiton.wetpaint.com site if you haven’t already. It is a community of educators k-12 and Univ. working together to solve such issues and bounce ideas off of each other. Feel free to contact me if you would like to talk and I’d be happy to help you set up a Wetpaint wiki if you feel it’s the right tool for the job.