How to Make a Blog Entry
Use this guide to create an entry on a blog to which you have access.
New Entry
1. To make a new blog entry click on New Entry.
Creating your entry
2. Enter the title of your entry. By default the title will be Post on [today’s date]. You may wish to enter something more meaningful here.
3. Type your entry into the textbox.
4. When you have finished you entry, click on Save.
Icons
5. Note that there are two icons for pasting text from the clipboard.
a. Paste Plain Text will paste text and remove any formatting.
b. Paste from Word is designed for pasting text from Microsoft Word.
More Icons
6. These icons allow you add links, files and pictures to your blog entry.
Note that when you add a link you link to an existing blog entry or to an external website. You cannot add links to other parts of your Blackboard course.
Editing your entry
7. Note that you can go back and edit your entry if you wish by clicking on Edit.
8. If you have edited your entry you can view previous versions by clicking on History.
9. If you wish to delete your entry a delete option is available. If the course instructors have allowed it, entries may be permanently deleted by clicking on Purge. If purging entries has not been allowed then the user who created the entry and the instructor are able to recover the entry.
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