How do I create a blog in Canvas?

[KristinL]

Hello @wisdom79 - 

Are you looking to create a blog post for a course assignment, or would you like to contribute a blog to the Instructure Community?

[KEVINFLANAGAN1]

Hi KristinL, I would like to create a daily blog post for each day, that my students access as sort of a jumping off point for the day's instruction.  Is there a way to to do that in Canvas?  I would like it to be visually appealing as opposed to just an announcement if that makes sense.

[madeleine_murph]

Piggy-backing here, but I'd like to know how to allow students to create blogs in Canvas.

[KristinL · Accepted solution]

Hi @madeleine_murph -

While there isn't a blogging feature in Canvas LMS, I know that instructors have leveraged discussions for this purpose. You can create blogging groups and place a single student in each group. Then, the discussion thread is just for them!

With smaller classes, instructors have all discussions viewable but ask that only the student author create content in the thread. (Which does make for a long list of discussions in the course!)