Blog blocks

Blocks make it easier to interact with blog posts made by either yourself or others. There are three blocks that work with blogs:

• Blog menu: Allows you to browse, search, and add blog posts
• Blog tags: Shows tags associated with various viewable blog posts - clicking on a tag will display all posts with that tag
• Recent blog entries: Displays posts from the past 24 hours for the relevant context e.g. a recent blog entries block on a course page will only show recent entries about that course

You can add these blocks to dashboards, and other useful locations on your site, using the same method as other blocks.

Depending on where it is located the Blog menu block has a number of options

• View all entries for this course: When viewing the block on a course. This allows you to access all of the posts made by yourself and others about the current course.
• View my entries about this course: When viewing the block on a course. Allows you to access only posts made by you about the current course.
• Add an entry about this course: Allows you to add a new course post.
• Blog entries: Shows all of your blog posts.
• Add a new entry: Allows you to add a new personal blog entry.
• Blog RSS feed: Downloads an XML file for the RSS feed for all your blog posts.
• Search: You can search for any blog post made by any user that is viewable on the site.