Adding a blog

Select Blog from the dropdown menu and select Go.
Give your blog a name and description. You may want to include here what the objective of the blog is and what is expected of participants.
Select the participants you want to give editing rights to the blog. You can individually choose members or select all members of a group. Note: The Choose a Course Group option will only appear if you already have groups set up within your course.
Select the options for the blog. You can:
- Make the blog content visible
- Allow participants to view posts by other participants
- Enable a public RSS feed of the blog
- Allow participants to comment on blog entries
- Create a date range for group members to edit the blog
- Create a date range for non-group members to view the blog
Decide if the blog contents will be assessed. You can create a Gradebook entry for the blog. Check the box and complete the details. Note: If you leave the ‘Entry Name’ blank the entry will not appear in the Gradebook.

Note: It’s preferable to leave public references to students as the “Person Name”.
The alternate language option – Primary Text direction is best left as “None”.
Select Save then OK to return to your course documents. You can then change the position of the folder using the numbering system.