This page is a work in progress, but here are some things you may want to bear in mind when looking to use blogging for assessment:
- How to grade
- Assessment criteria - weighting of visual vs content
- Group contributions
- Practicalities - where does the grade/feedback go?
- Deadlines and how to enforce them
- Setting the assessment
- Word count
- Handling/detecting plagiarism
- Technical issues and support
- Target audience
- Setting the context
- What is blogging? How to blog? - get a blogger to speak?
- Show a variety of examples - simple blog layout with great content vs amazing visual stylings and limited content
- Digital literacies
- Referencing and copyright