UBC Blogs

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UBC Blogs is an enterprise level weblogging environment designed to provide individual or group webspace for instructors and students. It can be used to build a course website, allow group authoring on a blog, provide peer review of authored content (editing with comments), 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).

UBC Blogs now includes social networking features to enable people with similar interests to connect and communicate. These features allow users to create profiles, join groups and connect with friends and colleagues.

UBC Blogs now has the following features:

• Groups: Public, private or hidden groups allow users to break the discussion down into specific topics
• Forums: Discussion forums built directly into groups allow for more conventional in-depth conversations.
• Activity Streams: Global, personal and group activity streams with threaded commenting, direct posting, favoriting and profile mentions.
• Messaging: Internal messaging allows users to talk to each other directly, and in private. Not just limited to one on one discussions, users can send messages to multiple recipients.
• Friends: Friend connections let users track the activity of others, or filter on only those users they care about the most.

Anyone with a valid CWL is welcome to sign up for an account below.