One of Moodle's many advantages is its built-in support for collaboration among learners and instructors. This ranges from a number of collaborative course activities, such as, Forum, Wiki, Glossary, and Database, the ability to run activities in a group mode, and support for groupings. Additionally, there are three social activities in Moodle that have to be configured by the administrator. These include blogs, comments, and tags, as discussed in the following sections.
Blogs are a means for users to express themselves either in the form of a learning journal or as a personal account of events. The blogging mechanism provided to users allows the creation of personal as well as public entries and also posts relating to a course.
As an administrator, you will have to Enable blogs in the Advanced features menu. Once the blogs are enabled, there are a number of settings that are available when you navigate to Appearance | Blog:
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