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• Create the UThink blog
• Add a link to the UThink blog from Moodle
• Password protect your class blog (optional)

About

Moodle CMS offers its own build-in blog tool. Blogs in Moodle are user based, therefore each user has his/her own individual blog.

If you want to have an advanced class blog, you may integrate UThink blog instead. Some of the features include:

• Access with an Internet ID or Guest ID
• Opportunity to create multiple blogs, really as many blogs as anyone wants
• Blog owners can easily add other authors to their blogs to create team blogs, class blogs, club blogs, etc
• Comments on entries
• Customizable look and feel

Live examples:

• Moodle user blog for demo student Cookie
• UThink class blog (linked from Moodle course site)

Step 1: Create a blog in UThink

• http://blog.lib.umn.edu/uthink/howto.phtm
  • Create a blog
  • Allow your students to add entries to the class blog
  • Add entries

Step 2: Link to your UThink blog from Moodle

To make navigation easier, add a link to the UThink blog to your Moodle site:

• Login at http://blog.lib.umn.edu
• Locate and copy the URL of your blog, e.g., http://blog.lib.umn.edu/moodle/classblog
• Go to your Moodle site and add a link there:
  • Click Turn editing on button
  • Select Add a link to a file or website from Add a resource drop-down menu
  • Type Name
  • Paste the URL into the Location area
  • Click Save changes button

Step 3 (optional): Password-protect your UThink blog

• https://wiki.umn.edu/view/UThink/PasswordProtectBlog