# Journal entry: Update your e-portfolio

## Journal entry: Updating your e-portfolio

After completing the activities in each Question , you are required to:

- Update your e-portfolio (collection of posts on your blog)
- Share your views/reflection blog/e-portfolio by enabling the share options on your e-portfolio.

Tips on updating your e-portfolio:

1. Document your learning using a variety of media that captures different moments in or components of your learning. Save your image and video/audio files appropriately for embedding in your post.
2. Write a new blog post
3. In your blog post, you can : a) embed your mixed media (photograph, illustration, video, audio) appropriately b) include a narrative that expresses the reflection of your learning experience, including your planned next learning step, if appropriate.
4. Add a title, save, publish and share your post.

After writing your blog post, please include the URL link to your post and post your link on the respective discission forums in in each section of the Toolkit page . Make use of this in order to share your learnings with us and your Community of Practice. Check back regularly to see what others have posted!

# Creating blog posts

Source: https://docs.moodle.org/38/en/File_resource_settings#Displaying_a_website_index_page

## Adding a blog entry

- From the user menu top right click on Profile>Blog entries.
- You can also use the Blog menu block whic is located on the right hand side of the course contents page. Click Add a new entry option.

- Write your entry and give it a title.
- If you want to attach a file, click the Add button to access the File picker to locate a file. Be sure your document is smaller than the maximum attachment size. Alternatively, drag and drop your file into the box provided.
- Choose who you wish to publish the entry to i.e. who may see the entry. There are three options:
  - Yourself i.e. your blog entry is a draft
  - Anyone on your site
  - Anyone in the world
- Select appropriate official tags for your entry and/or add one or more user defined tags. If you add more then one, they should be comma separated.

- Click on the "Save changes" button.

## Course blogs

- If you click "Add an entry about this course" in the Blog menu block then you will have the option to associate your blog entry with the current course.

- There is also a forum type "Standard forum displayed in a blog-like format" enables teachers to create forums which work as course blogs.

- Sites upgrading from 1.9 which previously had blog visibility set to "Users can only see blogs for people who share a course" or "Users can only see blogs for people who share a group" will have blogs converted into blog-like format forums.

## Editing a blog entry

You may edit your blog entry at any time, perhaps changing the publish option from yourself to anyone on your site, via the edit link at the bottom of the entry. You may also delete the blog entry if you wish.

## Permalink

Clicking Permalink on a blog entry gives you a direct link to that particular blog posting (in the address bar). This is so you can send a link to this specific post to someone else.

## External blogs

- You can also register external blogs, such as Blogger or Wordpress so that entries are automatically included in your Moodle blog. Go to the user menu (top right) Preferences>Register an external blog.

- In the URL box, add the RSS feed of the blog you wish to register.

### Deleting external blog entries

External blog entries can be deleted but not edited. To delete an external blog entry, click "delete" under the blog entry

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