I'm finding blogs in 2.0 difficult and time consuming to work with for these reasons:
- inability to limit visibility of blogs to a course
- lack of a link to easily show all posts from person X associated with a course
- Navigation (see image)
- Terminology ambiguities (confusing blogs with blog posts)
- Users are consistently forgetting to associate the blog post with the course.
(Now I remember why someone applied RSS to blogs)
Here are the links to a blog in the navigation:
At site level we get all the blog posts by everyone - which can be a lot.
At course level we get all the course associated posts. What I'd have expected is something like this:
Sally (2 new posts)
Joe (1 new post)
Ken
Lilly (1 new post)
ie a list of the Blogs of the students, ie a grouping of the Blog posts by each student. With (as an added bonus) the new posts I've not read.
Could try: requiring a certain tag.
Just curious. I have posted in the Blog forum to see if anyone is actually USING blogs with a class in Moodle 2.0.