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Hello, I am Donna Carnduff with the University of Tennessee Innovative Technology Center.

Would you like to have a page in your Online@UT course where students can come for your guidance, thoughts, and class updates?

The Online@UT blog tool provides an easy, familiar, and informal way for an instructor and students to communicate and publish their thoughts in a journal style.

A Course Blog is created automatically for your course site. To view the Course Blog, both you and your students should select Course Tools, then Blog Tool. 

By default, only the instructor can write in the Course Blog
You can allow students to contribute to the Course Blog by changing settings.

Select Control Panel, then choose “Configure Blog Tool” link, and specify Course Blog Tool options.

In this course blog, for the question “Who do you want to allow to comment on Blog entries?”, select “Everyone in Course” and leave other default settings unchanged.

Now all students can read the instructor’s blog entries and write their comments and questions.

How about a place where students can engage in discussions and peer-review activities? You can create individual student or group blogs in any content area. Say you want to create Peer Review blogs where groups of students post their drafts and receive feedback from other members of their group.

To create a group blog,you should select a Content Area  in the Control Panel. Continue by selecting  "Blog" from the drop-down menu in the top right corner; then pressing "Go" button.Type a name and a short description for the blog. Select members of the blog. Choose "Yes" for Do you want to make the content visible? Choose “Blog Member and Instructor” for “Who do you want to allow to comment on blog entries?” Select other options for the blog.
Press "OK".

If you’d like to learn more, visit us online at online.utk.edu.

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