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Blogs are not available on Learn@Seneca Blackboard Ultra. As of November 2022, Blogs are planned to be implemented. This article, Original vs. Ultra Highlights, explores other tools that you use in the interim.
Instead of Blogs, you can use Discussions and Journals.
Discussions encourage students to think critically about their coursework, and interact with each others’ ideas. You can create course, and group Discussions. Discussions can be graded or ungraded, and can be organized into Folders.
In a Discussion, the instructor can provide a question or instructions, and students can add their own responses. Each response can be replied to by students or instructors. Users can read replies by scrolling through the page, and comments are shown beneath the response they are replying to. Responses can be easily tracked, and marked for grades.
Journals are personal spaces for individual students or groups to communicate privately with you. Students can use Journals to post their opinions, ideas, concerns about the course, or discuss and analyze course-related materials. Journals can be graded and ungraded.
Depending on how you used blogs in Original, and the goals of these activities, you may find success using licenced tools such as VoiceThread or Kritik. Both tools integrate with Learn@Seneca and may be worth exploring.
Alternatively, you could look for blogging websites for students to use. However, this solution does not integrate with Seneca's grade center, and might be a learning curve to students.
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