Thursday 2 June 2016

Blogs in Moodle

Enabling/Disabling blogs. Blogs in Moodle are enabled by default: Site administration > Advanced features


Site administration settings: Site administration > Appearance > Blog


  • Enable blog associations: Enables the association of blog entries with courses and course modules.
  • Blog visibility: restrict the level to which user blogs can be viewed on this site.
  • Enable external blogs: Enables users to specify external blog feeds. Moodle regularly checks these blog feeds and copies new entries to the local blog of that user.
  • External blog cron schedule: How often Moodle checks the external blogs for new entries.
  • Enable comments in blogs
  • Show comments count


External blogs: to register and external blogs, such as Blogger or Wordpress so that entries are automatically included in your Moodle blog.
Go to Settings > My profile settings > Blogs > Register an external blog


Blog menu BLOCK: The blog menu block provides context-sensitive links for adding an entry about the course or a particular activity (if blog associations are enabled for the site and if a user has appropriate permissions).



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