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Blogging for teaching & learning

If you are interested in using blogs for teaching, learning or assessment purposes, there are a few tools available which should fit your needs

If you are a course organiser, administrator or tutor and are looking at ways of using blogs in teaching, learning and assessment, we have a few tools which may be of use. A summary of features is available on our comparative matrix.

Using blogs in Learn

It is possible to use blogs from your course area in Learn. You can either use the blogging tool that comes as part of Learn, or PebblePad or the blogs.ed.ac.uk service can be integrated with the VLE.

Using blogs in Moodle

It is possible to use blogs from your course area in Moodle.

Using blogs in PebblePad

PebblePad, our ePortfolio platform, has built-in blogging features which are easy to use.

Getting Started with Blogs.ed

A quick start guide for adding Blogs.ed blogs to your Learn course