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A tag is a relevant keyword or term associated with a blog entry, describing it and enabling keyword-based classification of information for the purpose of retrieval. Typically, a blog entry will have one or more tags associated with it.
A tag is a relevant keyword or term associated with a blog entry, describing it and enabling keyword-based classification of information for the purpose of retrieval. Typically, a blog entry will have one or more tags associated with it.


To encourage the use of blogs in your course, you may wish to add a [[Blog Tags block]] to your course page.
You may add new blog tags when adding or editing a blog entry or via the "Add/delete tags" link in the [[Blog Menu block]].


User Defined Tags are used for what? User Defined Tags can be used by anyone in the site.  A user can only delete their own user-defined tag.
==Tag types==


Official Tags are used for what? Official Tags are defined by the Site Administrator.
There are two types of tag:
*User defined tags - personal tags that any user may add
*Official tags - added by an administrator and available for any site user. Official tags are added in the Website-Administration Block under Appearence -> Manage Tags (Moodle 1.9). In former versions admins added official tags while editing a blog post in a separate field.
 
If you need to add official tags as a teacher, contact your administrator and ask for the capability [[Capabilities/moodle/blog:manageofficialtags|moodle/blog:manageofficialtags]] to be allowed. This capability has been deprecated in Moodle 1.9.
 
==See also==
 
*[[Blog Tags block]]
 
[[de:Blog-Schlagworte verwalten]]
[[eu:Blog-etiketak_gehitu/ezabatu]]

Latest revision as of 08:44, 21 January 2011


A tag is a relevant keyword or term associated with a blog entry, describing it and enabling keyword-based classification of information for the purpose of retrieval. Typically, a blog entry will have one or more tags associated with it.

You may add new blog tags when adding or editing a blog entry or via the "Add/delete tags" link in the Blog Menu block.

Tag types

There are two types of tag:

  • User defined tags - personal tags that any user may add
  • Official tags - added by an administrator and available for any site user. Official tags are added in the Website-Administration Block under Appearence -> Manage Tags (Moodle 1.9). In former versions admins added official tags while editing a blog post in a separate field.

If you need to add official tags as a teacher, contact your administrator and ask for the capability moodle/blog:manageofficialtags to be allowed. This capability has been deprecated in Moodle 1.9.

See also