Using Journals

A journal provides a personal space for you to communicate privately with your instructor. You can use a journal as a self-reflective tool to share your opinion, ideas and concerns related to your course. You can also discuss and analyze course related material using journals. Your instructor can grade your journal contributions or use them solely for communication. In either instance, you can make multiple entries in a journal. 

Using Journals in your Course

Tutorial Course Experience
Working with Journals Original
Working with Journals Ultra

Considerations

  • Your instructor can initiate a graded journal with you. Once you add your entry to the journal, your instructor can grade you for the work. You can view your instructor’s feedback and grading details on the journal screen.  
  • You get a notification every time your instructor adds a graded or non-graded journal for you. You can access the journal by clicking on the notification as well. 
  • If your instructor deleted the journal while you're posting, the journal and all comments are deleted.
  • If your instructor makes a journal unavailable while you're posting, the journal remains visible to your instructor only.
  • If your instructor changes the Allow Users to Edit and Delete Entries setting, entries remain but you can't edit them.
  • If your instructor changes the Allow Users to Delete Comments setting, comments remain but you can't edit them.