Blog: Overview
What are blogs?
The term "Blog" comprises "World Wide Web" and "Log". Blogs usually serve as online journals for personal as well as professional information. With the help of blogs you can provide your course participants with texts, pictures or videos in a swift and easy way. Entries will be displayed sorted by time; the latest news will always be on top. Course participants can subscribe to blogs via RSS Feed. They can also comment on entries and assess them.
A blog is generally used like a public diary. Its advantage is its quick, standardized publication.
Create a blog
Creating blogs here means creating the blog learning resources and integrating the learning resources into a course element. (Not the addition, editing, commenting and rating of contributions by course participants in the course run. This is called Blogging.)
If you have little experience with creating courses, you will find step-by-step instructions for creating and integrating them here:
How do I create a blog?
Configure a blog
A blog is configured in the blog learning resource on the one hand and in the blog course elements in which the learning resource is integrated on the other.
Blogging
The term "blogging" refers to the use, utilization and deployment of a created and configured blog. So how course participants and coaches can work with a blog in an OpenOlat course:
- Call up, read
- Add posts
- Comment on posts
- Assess posts
Note
An alternative to a blog could possibly be a forum.