Summary
You can set up a Blackboard Blog or Journal to be graded – this means you can give a student an overall mark for their contributions to an individual or course blog/journal.
Blackboard Blogs are different to the blogs provided by the Otago Blogs service. Blackboard Blogs are a more basic tool, and are only available inside Blackboard. Otago Blogs are a more advanced tool, and is completely independent of Blackboard.
Resources
- Grading Blackboard Blogs (help.blackboard.com)
- Grading Blackboard Journals (help.blackboard.com)
How to grade a blog/journal
- Open the paper that contains the blog/journal
- Go to the Grade Center
- Navigate to the column that has the same name as the blog/journal
- Find the student you wish to grade and hover over the grade center cell for that student. When you hover your mouse over the cell a drop down menu button will appear.
- Open the drop down menu and select View Grade Details
- Here you can add a grade, and provide feedback for the student. If you wish to see the student’s contributions to the blog/journal you can use the View User Activity button near the top of this screen
