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Get Started
At UBC, there are two services where you can use or create your own blogs: UBC Blogs and Connect Blogs.
- UBC Blogs
- UBC Blogs uses WordPress a personal publishing platform designed to provide individual or group spaces for instructors and students. Some of its features include social networking enabling people with similar interests to connect and communicate. You can join groups, build course websites, allow group authoring on a blog, provide peer review (editing with comments) of authored content, provide class webspace development (adding annotated links/building a shared resource for a class), and provide a personal portfolio for students, faculty and staff (upload media - slides, video, images of your artwork). With Connect's UBC Blogs Tool Link, it's now easier to link your Connect course with UBC Blogs.
- Connect Blogs
- Connect also has a built-in blogging system that is fully integrated with many of Connect's other tools. Depending on your course objectives, you can use a single course blog for full class discussions, provide group blogs for collaboration or individual blogs for personal reflections. All conversations are kept within the course and only available to course participants. Connect blogs are integrated with the Grade Center making student activities easier to grade. You can also attach rubrics to the blog so students understand how they will be graded.
Get Started
- How to Sign-up and Login to UBC Blogs
- A short step-by-step guide in creating your UBC Blogs account and your first blog.
- Create a Blog in Connect
- A how-to guide on creating a course or individual student blogs in Connect.
- Create a UBC Blogs Course Blog
- A how-to guide on how to create a course blog on UBC Blogs through Connect.
Get Some Help
UBC Blogs
Contact blog.support@ubc.ca if you need assistance.
Regular support clinics are available for people using UBC Blogs. They are currently held every Monday and Thursday from 1:00PM - 3:00PM at the Centre for Teaching, Learning and Technology in the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre.
Connect Blogs
Contact your local instructional support unit for more information.
Connect drop-in clinics are held every Wednesday from 1:00PM - 3:00PM at the Centre for Teaching, Learning and Technology in the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre.