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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.  


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.
* [[Blog settings]]
* [[Using Blogs]]


Blogs in Moodle are user based - each user has their own Blog. Admins, Teachers, and users can create Tags - Admins can create site level tags, Teachers can create Course level tags, and users can create their own list of tags.
==See also==


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.)
*[[Blogs FAQ]]
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7M3sZL6wts Blogs in Moodle 2.0 video]


==See also==
[[Category:Blog]]


*[[Elgg]]
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*[http://www.blogger.com Blogger.com]
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*[http://www.wordpress.org Wordpress]
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*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weblog Wikipedia on Blogs]
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*Using Moodle [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=44830 Blogs and comments] forum discussion
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*[[Blogs development]]
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Latest revision as of 01:22, 14 September 2017

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.

See also