The Blog Feature in Blackboard
The blog feature functions like a true paper journal that can be configured for individual students, groups of students, or an entire class. The most popular uses of this feature are individual blogs accessed by single students and the instructor, and group blogs which are available to groups of students selected by the instructor. Group blogs allow for peer editing and review, and peer comments. These blogs can also be used as a drafting tool as it allows the editing of entries while maintaining a history of the various versions. It will compare versions as well.
Blogs can be created within any content area. You may find it useful to add a new content area called "Blogs" rather than create it in one of the default content areas. Interactive Tutorials from Learning Objects, the creators of the Journal/Blog building block at the link below. Your instructional technologist can help you decide the best way to configure this tool for your needs.
Tutorials
Creating Blogs
Creating and Configuring Group Blogs
Using Blogs
Adding Links to Blogs
Saving or Cancelling Changes to a Blog
Adding a Comment to a Blog
Viewing Comments
Exporting BlogsCopy and Paste into Blog
Accessing Blogs
Viewing Blogs
Blog Guides
Student
Instructor
Blog Tutorials
Interactive Tutorials on the Blog from the vendor. (Note: the tutorials refer to a previous version of this blog feature called "Journal LX" but if you replace "journal" with "blog" most of the material remains pertinent.