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The word 'blog' is a contraction of 'web log'. Blogs are a form of online journal used by millions of people around the world for self-expression and communicating with family and friends. Blogs are usually organized as a chronological series of postings created by the author of the blog. Blogs usually are written by one person, although some blogs can be authored by groups of people.


Blogs allow students, teachers and administrators to have a public web log. This online journal has various settings to control who can read them.
Blogs in Moodle are user based - each user has their own blog. Users can also register their external blogs, such as Blogger or Wordpress, so that entries are automatically included in their Moodle blog.  


Blogs in Moodle are user based - each user has their own Blog. Admins, teachers, and students can create Tags - Admins can create site level tags, teachers can create Course level tags, and students can create their own list of tags.
* [[Blog settings]]
* [[Using Blogs]]


When a blog entry is created, a user can select which tags they wish to associate with their new entry. - multiple tags can be selected. Users can also select who they want the blog entry to be available to - (depending on the global settings of the site.)


==Settings==
Blogs in Moodle video:


Administration Menu -> Security -> Site policies
<mediaplayer>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7M3sZL6wts</mediaplayer>
 
The very last entry, "Blog visibility, blog level"
* All site users can see all blog entries
* Users can only see blogs for people who share a course.
* Users can only see blogs for people who share a group.
* Users can only see their own blog.
* Disable blog system completely.


==See also==
==See also==


*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weblog Wikipedia on Blogs]
*[[Blogs FAQ]]
*Using Moodle [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=44830 Blogs and comments] forum discussion
*[[Blogs development]]


==Blogs outside of Moodle==
[[Category:Blog]]
 
Many companies and organisations on the web provide blog sites and they are generally free. The largest company to do this is blogger which is owned by Google. There are also many Open Source web applications that can be downloaded and installed freely. The most common of these is Wordpress.


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*[http://www.blogger.com Blogger.com]
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*[http://www.wordpress.org Wordpress]
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Latest revision as of 06:51, 19 October 2011

The word 'blog' is a contraction of 'web log'. Blogs are a form of online journal used by millions of people around the world for self-expression and communicating with family and friends. Blogs are usually organized as a chronological series of postings created by the author of the blog. Blogs usually are written by one person, although some blogs can be authored by groups of people.

Blogs in Moodle are user based - each user has their own blog. Users can also register their external blogs, such as Blogger or Wordpress, so that entries are automatically included in their Moodle blog.


Blogs in Moodle video:

<mediaplayer>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7M3sZL6wts</mediaplayer>

See also