{"id":89,"date":"2010-09-26T19:33:55","date_gmt":"2010-09-27T00:33:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/blackboard\/2010\/09\/26\/journals-new-feature-in-blackboard-9\/"},"modified":"2019-09-09T12:15:00","modified_gmt":"2019-09-09T17:15:00","slug":"journals-new-feature-in-blackboard-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/blackboard\/2010\/09\/26\/journals-new-feature-in-blackboard-9\/","title":{"rendered":"Journals: New in Blackboard 9"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Journals allow your students to engage in reflective practice throughout the semester in a private platform that only the instructor and the student can access.<\/p>\n<p>You can create a journal by going to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Control Panel &gt; Course Tools &gt; Journals<\/li>\n<li>The Tools menu item &gt; Journals<\/li>\n<li>A content area &gt; Add Interactive Tool &gt; Journal<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This <a href=\"http:\/\/ondemand.blackboard.com\/r91\/movies\/bb91_blogs_journals_create_journal.htm\">viewlet<\/a> from Blackboard&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/ondemand.blackboard.com\/\">On-Demand Learning Center<\/a> will take you through the Journal creation process step-by-step.<\/p>\n<p>During creation, you can also specify whether you&#8217;d like students&#8217; journals to be graded. Journals can be indexed monthly or weekly, and instructors can comment on students&#8217; entries. (Note: Formatting of comments is currently unavailable, but a Blackboard representative said this feature would be available in a future version.)<\/p>\n<p>Groups can also have journals. Journals and Blogs are VERY similar in groups, but there are some subtle (and important) differences:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In a Group, you can select whether all members of the group can view the journal (essentially, a blog), or members have individual journals (leave &#8220;Permit Members to View Journal&#8221; unchecked). Blogs are available to all members of the group by default.<\/li>\n<li>Blogs have the option of anonymous comments and entries. Journals do not.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Once you&#8217;ve named your journal, please be careful not to edit the link; doing so may be associated with a bug.<\/p>\n<p>Another idea: Journals can also be used by students to post short, written homework assignments that are all displayed on one screen.<\/p>\n<p>If you have any questions, please send an email to <a href=\"mailto:blackboard@richmond.edu\">blackboard@richmond.edu<\/a> .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Journals allow your students to engage in reflective practice throughout the semester in a private platform that only the instructor and the student can access. You can create a journal by going to: Control Panel &gt; Course Tools &gt; Journals The Tools menu item &gt; Journals A content area &gt; Add Interactive Tool &gt; Journal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":753,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,1216],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-new-features"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/blackboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/blackboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/blackboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/blackboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/753"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/blackboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/blackboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/blackboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/blackboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/blackboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}